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Optimization of process parameters for naphthalene removal onto nano-iron oxide/carbon composite by response surface methodology, isotherm and kinetic studies

Nanotechnology for Environmental Engineering, ISSN: 2365-6387, Vol: 3, Issue: 1
2018
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Article Description

The influence of design parameters such as dosage, experimental time and process temperature on the adsorptive removal of naphthalene and yield of the nano-FeO/carbon composite synthesized from palm shell activated carbon was determined. The involved synthesis mechanism for composite was also found to be cost-effective. Based on the composite design mechanism, various quadratic models were found out to correlate the dynamic parameters with the symmetric responses. The nano-FeO/carbon composite conditions were centrally optimized using response surface mechanism by maximizing both the yield of nano-FeO/carbon composite and uptake of naphthalene within the predetermined ranges involved in this study. The optimum parameters for synthesizing nano-FeO/carbon composite from palm shell for adsorption of naphthalene were as follows: dosage of 6 g/l, reaction time of 150 min and process temperature of 40 °C which obtained 120.87 mg/g of naphthalene uptake and 21.46% composite yield. The Langmuir model well agreed for experimental fitting of the observed data. The reaction kinetics followed the best utilization of pseudo-second-order mechanism. The experimental conditions quite agreed with the predicted results of the model. BET analysis confirmed the surface distribution to be 695 m/g and SEM analysis resulted in maximum pore development onto nano-iron oxide/carbon composite.

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