Journal of Encapsulation and Adsorption Sciences

Volume 8, Issue 4 (December 2018)

ISSN Print: 2161-4865   ISSN Online: 2161-4873

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Fe-Oxide Nanomaterial: Synthesis, Characterization and Lead Removal

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DOI: 10.4236/jeas.2018.84010    731 Downloads   1,792 Views  Citations

ABSTRACT

Organic solvent free iron oxide nanomaterial used for lead removal was synthesized by co-precipitation method. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopic with energy dispersive X-ray analysis (SEM-EDX), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and thermo gravimetric-differential thermal (TG-DTA) analysis were used to determine the surface characteristics and analysis of iron oxide. Optimization of solution pH, adsorbent dosage, contact time, agitation speed and initial lead ion concentration were conducted for further adsorption isotherm, kinetics, thermodynamics and desorption study. Langmuir sorption isotherm model fits the adsorption data better than Freundlich, Dubinin-Radushkevich (D-RK) and Flory-Huggins (FH) models. The mean adsorption energy and free energy obtained from D-RK and FH models guides that the mechanism was under control of physical adsorption and actuality of spontaneous reaction, respectively. From kinetics of adsorption pseudo second (PSO) model fits well than pseudo first (PFO) and Elovich adsorption-reaction models. And to test whether the reaction is under control of adsorption-diffusion or not the intra particle diffusion (IPD) model was tested, but it fails to pass through the origin. This indicates that the reaction mechanism only under control of adsorption-reaction. The maximum adsorption capacity (qmax) of the adsorbent was 70.422 mg/g.

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Abebe, B. and Murthy, H. (2018) Fe-Oxide Nanomaterial: Synthesis, Characterization and Lead Removal. Journal of Encapsulation and Adsorption Sciences, 8, 195-209. doi: 10.4236/jeas.2018.84010.

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