Catalytic removal of Alizarin Red using chromium manganese oxide nanorods: degradation and kinetic studies

Dye removal through photocatalytic degradation employing nanomaterials as catalysts is a growing research area. In current studies, photocatalytic alizarin red (AR) dye degradation has been investigated by designing a series of Cr based manganese oxide nanomaterials (MH1–MH5). Synthesized nanomateri...

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Main Authors: Hamza, Muhammad, Altaf, Ataf Ali, Kausar, Samia, Murtaza, Shahzad, Rasool, Nasir, Gul, Rukhsana, Badshah, Amin, Zaheer, Muhammad, Ali Shah, Syed Adnan, Zakaria, Zainul Amiruddin
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author Hamza, Muhammad
Altaf, Ataf Ali
Kausar, Samia
Murtaza, Shahzad
Rasool, Nasir
Gul, Rukhsana
Badshah, Amin
Zaheer, Muhammad
Ali Shah, Syed Adnan
Zakaria, Zainul Amiruddin
author_facet Hamza, Muhammad
Altaf, Ataf Ali
Kausar, Samia
Murtaza, Shahzad
Rasool, Nasir
Gul, Rukhsana
Badshah, Amin
Zaheer, Muhammad
Ali Shah, Syed Adnan
Zakaria, Zainul Amiruddin
author_sort Hamza, Muhammad
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description Dye removal through photocatalytic degradation employing nanomaterials as catalysts is a growing research area. In current studies, photocatalytic alizarin red (AR) dye degradation has been investigated by designing a series of Cr based manganese oxide nanomaterials (MH1–MH5). Synthesized nanomaterials were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy/energy dispersive x-ray, Brunauer–Emmett–Teller, and photoluminescence techniques and were utilized for photocatalytic AR dye degradation under UV light. AR dye degradation was monitored by UV–visible spectroscopy and percent degradation was studied for the effect of time, catalyst dose, different dye concentrations, and different pH values of dye solution. All the catalysts have shown more than 80% dye degradation exhibiting good catalytic efficiencies for dye removal. The catalytic pathway was analyzed by applying the kinetic model. A pseudo second-order model was found the best fitted kinetic model indicating a chemically-rate controlled mechanism. Values of constant R2 for all the factors studied were close to unity depicting a good correlation between experimental data.
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spelling upm-880952022-05-18T06:44:55Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/88095/ Catalytic removal of Alizarin Red using chromium manganese oxide nanorods: degradation and kinetic studies Hamza, Muhammad Altaf, Ataf Ali Kausar, Samia Murtaza, Shahzad Rasool, Nasir Gul, Rukhsana Badshah, Amin Zaheer, Muhammad Ali Shah, Syed Adnan Zakaria, Zainul Amiruddin Dye removal through photocatalytic degradation employing nanomaterials as catalysts is a growing research area. In current studies, photocatalytic alizarin red (AR) dye degradation has been investigated by designing a series of Cr based manganese oxide nanomaterials (MH1–MH5). Synthesized nanomaterials were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy/energy dispersive x-ray, Brunauer–Emmett–Teller, and photoluminescence techniques and were utilized for photocatalytic AR dye degradation under UV light. AR dye degradation was monitored by UV–visible spectroscopy and percent degradation was studied for the effect of time, catalyst dose, different dye concentrations, and different pH values of dye solution. All the catalysts have shown more than 80% dye degradation exhibiting good catalytic efficiencies for dye removal. The catalytic pathway was analyzed by applying the kinetic model. A pseudo second-order model was found the best fitted kinetic model indicating a chemically-rate controlled mechanism. Values of constant R2 for all the factors studied were close to unity depicting a good correlation between experimental data. MDPI Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/88095/1/ABSTRACT.pdf Hamza, Muhammad and Altaf, Ataf Ali and Kausar, Samia and Murtaza, Shahzad and Rasool, Nasir and Gul, Rukhsana and Badshah, Amin and Zaheer, Muhammad and Ali Shah, Syed Adnan and Zakaria, Zainul Amiruddin (2020) Catalytic removal of Alizarin Red using chromium manganese oxide nanorods: degradation and kinetic studies. Catalysts, 10 (10). art. no. 1150. pp. 1-17. ISSN 2073-4344 https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4344/10/10/1150 10.3390/catal10101150
spellingShingle Hamza, Muhammad
Altaf, Ataf Ali
Kausar, Samia
Murtaza, Shahzad
Rasool, Nasir
Gul, Rukhsana
Badshah, Amin
Zaheer, Muhammad
Ali Shah, Syed Adnan
Zakaria, Zainul Amiruddin
Catalytic removal of Alizarin Red using chromium manganese oxide nanorods: degradation and kinetic studies
title Catalytic removal of Alizarin Red using chromium manganese oxide nanorods: degradation and kinetic studies
title_full Catalytic removal of Alizarin Red using chromium manganese oxide nanorods: degradation and kinetic studies
title_fullStr Catalytic removal of Alizarin Red using chromium manganese oxide nanorods: degradation and kinetic studies
title_full_unstemmed Catalytic removal of Alizarin Red using chromium manganese oxide nanorods: degradation and kinetic studies
title_short Catalytic removal of Alizarin Red using chromium manganese oxide nanorods: degradation and kinetic studies
title_sort catalytic removal of alizarin red using chromium manganese oxide nanorods: degradation and kinetic studies
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