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JOURNAL OF ADVANCED RESEARCH
Volume 20, Issue -, Pages 79-89Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jare.2019.05.007
Keywords
Oil sorbent; Natural rubber; Reduced graphene oxide; Composite material; Adsorption isotherm; Reusability
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- International Postgraduate Program in Hazardous Substance and Environmental Management, Chulalongkorn University
- Green Materials for Industrial Application Research Unit, Chulalongkorn University
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A green sorbent material was fabricated through the simple addition of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) to natural rubber (NR) latex. The effect of rGO content in the NR foam on petroleum oil adsorption was investigated. The addition of rGO in NR increased the petroleum oil adsorption capacity of the resulting NR/rGO (NRG) composite foam (12-21 g g(-1) ) with respect to those of the pure NR foam (8-15 g g(-1)) and a commercial sorbent (6-7 g g(-1)). The adsorption capacity was optimal for 0.5 phr rGO (NRG-0.5). Further, the environmenta l conditions (temperature and waves) affected the oil adsorption capacity of the sorbent materials. The adsorption kinetics of the sorbent materials for crude AXL oil was best described with pseudo-second-order kinetics. The interparticle diffusion model revealed three steps whereas the adsorption isotherms approximated the Langmuir isotherms. Moreover, the oil adsorption mechanisms of the NR and NRG sorbent materials were compared to that of a commercial sorbent. The high elasticity of the NRG-0.5 composite foam improved not only the oil adsorption capacity but also the reusability of the sorbent material. The presence of rGO increased the strength of the NRG-0.5 compared to that of pure NR, which resulted in a high-performance and reusable material with an oil removal efficiency higher than 70% after 30 uses. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Cairo University.
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