Journal
POWDER TECHNOLOGY
Volume 339, Issue -, Pages 872-881Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2018.08.055
Keywords
Magnetic adsorbent; gamma-Fe2O3; Sepiolite; Congo red; Separation; Regeneration
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51674293]
- State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy, Central South University, Changsha, China
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The new magnetic separation adsorbent is the key material for separation something that is hard to separate. In this article, an emerging gamma-Fe2O3/sepolite nanocomposite modified with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane was prepared by chemical coprecipitation method. The magnetic adsorbent (gamma-Fe2O3/Sep-NH2) was used to remove an- ionic dye, Congo red (CR), from aqueous solution. The gamma-Fe2O3/Sep-NH2 composite exhibited high specific saturation magnetization (95.36 emu/g) with superparamagnetism without coercivity and residual magnetism, which could be easily separated from aqueous solution by the application of an external magnetic field. Batch ad- sorption experimental results showed that the magnetic absorbent had high adsorption capacity of 126.4 mg/g for CR. The regeneration of the magnetic absorbent could be realized by soaking it in 0.1 mol/L NaOH solution and the recovered gamma-Fe2O3/Sep-NH2 magnetic material could be reused for CR removal. The adsorption capacity for reusing ten times still remained 90% of initial adsorption capacity. Furthermore, the adsorption capacity decreases with the increase of temperature. The adsorption processes conform to pseudo-second-order model and Langmuir isotherm model, indicating that it is a single molecule chemical adsorption process. Understanding the characteristic of magnetic adsorbent is of great importance to the development of new magnetic materials for magnetic separation removal of anionic pollutant from aqueous solution. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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