Open AccessStructural and adsorption behaviour of ZnO/aminated SWCNT-COOH for malachite green removal: face-centred central composite design
Author(s) -
Zeynep Ciğeroğlu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
turkish journal of chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.239
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1303-6130
pISSN - 1300-0527
DOI - 10.3906/kim-2011-38
Subject(s) - adsorption , malachite green , chemistry , diethylenetriamine , endothermic process , freundlich equation , nuclear chemistry , nanocomposite , central composite design , carbon nanotube , zinc , chemical engineering , response surface methodology , chromatography , organic chemistry , engineering
In this study, an effective adsorbent was synthesized to remove malachite green (MG), which is one of the toxic dyes. Firstly, single walled carbon nanotube with carboxylated acid (SWCNT-COOH) was functionalized with diethylenetriamine and a new nanocomposite was obtained using nano zinc oxide (ZnO) powder. The effects of pH (3-7), the amount of adsorbent (5-15 mg) and the initial concentration (10-50 mg L -1 ) of the solution on the adsorption uptake were investigated. The optimal parameters that maximize the adsorption uptake according to the specified working range are found to be 4.63 for pH, 49.94 mg L -1 for initial concentration, 5.25 mg for the adsorbent dose, and the maximum adsorption capacity has been found as 52.26 mg g -1 . The excellent fitting of the pseudo-second kinetic model with (R 2 = 0.9912) was fitted the experimental data. The Freundlich isotherm model gave a clue about the type of adsorption. Furthermore, thermodynamic results showed that adsorption process was endothermic.