Removal of emulsified oil from oily wastewater using agricultural waste barley straw

An agricultural byproduct, barley straw, was chemically modified by a cationic surfactant, hexadecylpyridinium chloride monohydrate (CPC) and employed as an adsorbent to remove emulsified canola oil from aqueous solution. The textural and surface properties of the surfactant modified barley straw (S...

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Main Authors: Ibrahim, Shariff, Wang, Shaobin, Ang, Ming
Format: Journal Article
Published: ELSEVIER 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35132
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Wang, Shaobin
Ang, Ming
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Wang, Shaobin
Ang, Ming
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description An agricultural byproduct, barley straw, was chemically modified by a cationic surfactant, hexadecylpyridinium chloride monohydrate (CPC) and employed as an adsorbent to remove emulsified canola oil from aqueous solution. The textural and surface properties of the surfactant modified barley straw (SMBS) were characterized by N2 adsorption, FT-IR, SEM, surface acidic/basic groups and surfactant desorption. The low desorption of CPC from SMBS demonstrated a strong bonding of the CPC to straw surface. Several factors such as adsorption temperature, solution pH, loading of adsorbent, and particle size on oil adsorption were investigated. It was found that addition of CPC created a non-polar layer on barley straw surface thus endowing SMBS with much better adsorption capacity for oil removal from water. The adsorption was found less favorable at high acidic condition and the maximum adsorption capacity was observed at about neutrality. Larger particle size would result in lower adsorption while adsorption temperature would not affect oil adsorption significantly. The kinetic study revealed that equilibrium time was short and the isotherm study indicated that the oil adsorption was fitted well by the Langmuir model. The adsorption capacity determined from the Langmuir isotherm was 576.0 ± 0.3 mg g−1 at 25 °C.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-351322017-09-13T15:32:02Z Removal of emulsified oil from oily wastewater using agricultural waste barley straw Ibrahim, Shariff Wang, Shaobin Ang, Ming An agricultural byproduct, barley straw, was chemically modified by a cationic surfactant, hexadecylpyridinium chloride monohydrate (CPC) and employed as an adsorbent to remove emulsified canola oil from aqueous solution. The textural and surface properties of the surfactant modified barley straw (SMBS) were characterized by N2 adsorption, FT-IR, SEM, surface acidic/basic groups and surfactant desorption. The low desorption of CPC from SMBS demonstrated a strong bonding of the CPC to straw surface. Several factors such as adsorption temperature, solution pH, loading of adsorbent, and particle size on oil adsorption were investigated. It was found that addition of CPC created a non-polar layer on barley straw surface thus endowing SMBS with much better adsorption capacity for oil removal from water. The adsorption was found less favorable at high acidic condition and the maximum adsorption capacity was observed at about neutrality. Larger particle size would result in lower adsorption while adsorption temperature would not affect oil adsorption significantly. The kinetic study revealed that equilibrium time was short and the isotherm study indicated that the oil adsorption was fitted well by the Langmuir model. The adsorption capacity determined from the Langmuir isotherm was 576.0 ± 0.3 mg g−1 at 25 °C. 2010 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35132 10.1016/j.bej.2009.11.013 ELSEVIER restricted
spellingShingle Ibrahim, Shariff
Wang, Shaobin
Ang, Ming
Removal of emulsified oil from oily wastewater using agricultural waste barley straw
title Removal of emulsified oil from oily wastewater using agricultural waste barley straw
title_full Removal of emulsified oil from oily wastewater using agricultural waste barley straw
title_fullStr Removal of emulsified oil from oily wastewater using agricultural waste barley straw
title_full_unstemmed Removal of emulsified oil from oily wastewater using agricultural waste barley straw
title_short Removal of emulsified oil from oily wastewater using agricultural waste barley straw
title_sort removal of emulsified oil from oily wastewater using agricultural waste barley straw
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35132