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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 288, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112481
Keywords
Coagulant aid; Water treatment; Coagulation; flocculation; Dye removal; Adsorption; Kinetics
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The study utilizes a system composed of chitosan and graphene oxide to effectively remove turbidity and various pollutants from surface water, achieving high removal efficiency for algae, bacteria, dyes, and heavy metal ions. The coagulation system displayed exceptional economic value for raw surface water and wastewater treatment, with the sludge exhibiting extraordinary adsorption capacity.
In this study, chitosan (CS) is used as a natural coagulant aid alongside graphene oxide (GO) to remove turbidity and numerous pollutants from raw and artificially contaminated surface water. The coagulation capability of the system (GO/CS) was assessed with respect to a water sample?s turbidity, pH, coagulant dose, settling velocity, and temperature. The presence of CS enhanced the coagulation capacity of GO at varied pH levels and no GO residue was detected in the water after the treatment. The proposed system achieved high turbidity removal efficiency (>98.3%) for all turbidity levels. A mixture of GO (8 mg/L) and CS (2 mg/L) was ideal to remove algae (99.5%) and bacteria (>95.0%). Furthermore, it demonstrated a high coagulation capacity to remove dyes, direct brown-2 (DB-2), methylene blue (MB), and Pb(II) ions from artificially contaminated surface water. Interestingly, the sludge exhibited an extraordinary adsorption capacity for DB-2, MB, and Pb(II) ions. The adsorption process followed the pseudo-second-order kinetic model, and was consistent with the Langmuir model, with an adsorption capacity of up to 667.8, 400.7, and 459.1 mg/g for DB-2, MB, and Pb(II) ions, respectively. Therefore, the presented binary coagulation system is of great potential economic value for the treatment of raw surface water and wastewater.
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