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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 273, Issue -, Pages 127-135Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2014.03.034
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Composite materials; Nanostructures; Magnetic properties; Adsorption
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- All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi [8023/BOR/RID/RPS-012/2009-10]
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The adsorption of acid yellow 17 dye on activated carbon/alpha-Fe2O3 nanocomposite prepared by simple pyrolytic method using iron(II) gluconate was investigated by batch technique. The composite was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM). The size of iron oxide nanoparticles formed from iron(II) gluconate precursor is in the range 5-17 nm. The saturation magnetization (M-s), remanence (M-r) and coercivity (H-c) of the magnetic carbon nanocomposite is 5.6 emu/g, 1.14 emu/g and 448 Oe, respectively. The adsorption data are found to fit well with Langmuir and, fairly well with Freundlich and Ternpkin isotherms at higher concentration of dye (40-100 mg/L). Kinetics data indicate that the adsorption of dye follows pseudo-second order kinetics model. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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