Facile synthesis of biopolymer decorated magnetic coreshells for enhanced removal of xenobiotic azo dyes through experimental modelling.

N. Kumari,Monalisha Behera,Ritu Singh

Published 2022 in Food and Chemical Toxicology

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Since contamination of xenobiotics in water bodies has become a global issue, their removal is gaining ample attention lately. In the present study, nZVI was synthesized using chitosan for removal of two such xenobitic dyes, Bromocresol green and (BCG) and Brilliant blue (BB), which have high prevalence in freshwater and wastewater matrices. nZVI functionalization prevents nanoparticle aggregation and oxidation, enhancing the removal of BCG and BB with an efficiency of 84.96% and 86.21%, respectively. XRD, FESEM, EDS, and FTIR have been employed to investigate the morphology, elemental composition, and functional groups of chitosan-modified nanoscale-zerovalent iron (CS@nZVI). RSM-CCD model was utilized to assess the combined effect of five independent variables and determine the best condition for maximum dye removal. Interactions between adsorbent dose (2-4) mg, pH (4-8), time (20-40) min, temperature (35-65) 0C, and initial dye concentration (40-60) mg/L was modeled to study the response, i.e., dye removal percentage. The reaction fitted well for Langmuir isotherm and pseudo-first-order kinetics, with a maximum qe value of 426.97 and 452.4 mg/g, respectively. Thermodynamic analysis revealed the adsorption was spontaneous, and endothermic in nature. Moreover, CS@nZVI could be used up to five cycles of dye removal with remarkable potential for real water samples.

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