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Activated carbon@MgO@Fe3O4 as an efficient adsorbent for As (III) removal

  • Carbon Letters
  • Abbr : Carbon Lett.
  • 2021, 31(5), pp.851-862
  • DOI : 10.1007/s42823-020-00186-2
  • Publisher : Korean Carbon Society
  • Research Area : Natural Science > Natural Science General > Other Natural Sciences General
  • Received : March 24, 2020
  • Accepted : September 7, 2020
  • Published : October 1, 2021

Esmaeili Hossein 1 Mousavi Seyyed Mojtaba 2 Hashemi Seyyed Alireza 2 Chiang Wei-Hung 3 Ahmadpour Abnavi Somayeh 4

1Islamic Azad University
2Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
3National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
4Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, Kherad Institute of Higher Education, Bushehr, Iran

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ABSTRACT

In this study, Fe3O4/MgO/Activated carbon composite was used to remove arsenic ion (As (III)) from aqueous media. To this end, Frangula Alnus was used to prepare activated carbon (AC) by calcination in the furnace at 700 °C for 4 h and was then used to synthesize the MgO/Fe3O4/AC composite. To study the surface properties of the composite, various analyses such as SEM, EDX/Mapping, FTIR, DLS, BET and VSM were applied. According to the BET analysis, the specifc surface area and average pore size of the Fe3O4/MgO/AC composite were obtained as 190.92 m2 /g and 7.57 nm, respectively, which showed that the aforementioned nanocomposite had a mesoporos structure with an excellent specifc surface area. Also, VSM analysis indicated that the composite had a superparamagnetic property and could be easily separated from the solution by a magnet. Moreover, the results of the As (III) sorption indicated that the highest uptake efciency was obtained 96.65% at pH=7, adsorbent dosage=0.13 g/L, t=35 min, T=45 °C and Co=6 mg/L. In addition, the pseudo-second-order model could better describe the kinetic behavior of the sorption process. Furthermore, Langmuir model was the best model to describe the equilibroium behavior of the As(III) ion sorption. Besides, according to the the thermodynamic study, enthalpy change and entropy change were obtained 58.11 kJ/mol and 224.49 J/mol.K, respectively, indicating that the sorption process was spontaneous and endothermic. According to the results, the Fe3O4/MgO/AC composite was a good adsorbent with the extraordinary properties, which can be used on an industrial scale.

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