TY - JOUR
T1 - Preparation of sustainable activated carbon-alginate beads impregnated with ionic liquid for phenol decontamination
AU - Khan, Amir Sada
AU - Ibrahim, Taleb H.
AU - Khamis, Mustafa I.
AU - Nancarrow, Paul
AU - Iqbal, Jibran
AU - AlNashef, Inas
AU - Jabbar, Nabil Abdel
AU - Hassan, Muhammad Faheem
AU - Mjalli, Farouq Sabri
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the American University of Sharjah , under grant no. FRG19-L-E13 .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/10/25
Y1 - 2021/10/25
N2 - Powder activated carbon (PAC), derived from calligonum pollygonides, was successfully modified with the ionic liquid (IL) trihexyltetradecylphosphonium bromide ([PC6C6C6C14][Br]) in the presence of sodium alginate and characterized using SEM, FTIR and TGA. PAC, granular AC (GAC), AC-alginate and AC-Alg-IL bead were assessed for the removal of phenol from aqueous media via batch adsorption. Both PAC and AC-Alg-IL beads displayed high adsorption capacities, 123 mg/g and 78 mg/g, respectively, under optimized conditions. In contrast, GAC gave a much lower adsorption capacity than AC-ALG-IL beads, indicating that AC-ALG-IL beads are superior as potential adsorbents for this industrial application. Theoretical studies showed that the pseudo-second-order kinetic and Freundlich isotherm models were suitable to describe the adsorption process. The interaction between phenol and AC-Alg-IL beads was analyzed using the conductor-like screening model for realistic solvents (COSMO-RS). It has been concluded that AC-Alg-IL beads can be used as an efficient adsorbent for phenol and other organic compounds.
AB - Powder activated carbon (PAC), derived from calligonum pollygonides, was successfully modified with the ionic liquid (IL) trihexyltetradecylphosphonium bromide ([PC6C6C6C14][Br]) in the presence of sodium alginate and characterized using SEM, FTIR and TGA. PAC, granular AC (GAC), AC-alginate and AC-Alg-IL bead were assessed for the removal of phenol from aqueous media via batch adsorption. Both PAC and AC-Alg-IL beads displayed high adsorption capacities, 123 mg/g and 78 mg/g, respectively, under optimized conditions. In contrast, GAC gave a much lower adsorption capacity than AC-ALG-IL beads, indicating that AC-ALG-IL beads are superior as potential adsorbents for this industrial application. Theoretical studies showed that the pseudo-second-order kinetic and Freundlich isotherm models were suitable to describe the adsorption process. The interaction between phenol and AC-Alg-IL beads was analyzed using the conductor-like screening model for realistic solvents (COSMO-RS). It has been concluded that AC-Alg-IL beads can be used as an efficient adsorbent for phenol and other organic compounds.
KW - Activated carbon
KW - Activated carbon-ionic liquid composite
KW - COSMO-RS
KW - Ionic liquids
KW - Phenol
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128899
DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128899
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85115127921
SN - 0959-6526
VL - 321
JO - Journal of Cleaner Production
JF - Journal of Cleaner Production
M1 - 128899
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