Removal Of Methylene Blue Dye By Polyvinyl Alcohol/Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Adsorbents

Nowadays, water pollution becomes a serious issue in most of the country due to the development industry around the world. Textile industries is a popular sector that uses dyes that cause lots of water removed are contaminated. In this study, PVA and PVA/MWCNTs adsorbent were synthesized by using...

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Main Author: Zamri, Nurul Najihah
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Sains Malaysia 2021
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description Nowadays, water pollution becomes a serious issue in most of the country due to the development industry around the world. Textile industries is a popular sector that uses dyes that cause lots of water removed are contaminated. In this study, PVA and PVA/MWCNTs adsorbent were synthesized by using the phase inversion method to be used as an adsorbent to remove the methylene blue (MB) dye. Several parameters such as initial concentration, contact time and, the adsorbent dosage were studied to evaluate the performance of adsorbents. Based on the results, PVA/MWCNTs adsorbents was able to remove 46.58% of MB while the PVA adsorbents was able to eliminate 44.71% of MB at equilibrium state with an initial concentration is 2 mg/L. Hence, PVA/MWCNTs adsorbent was found to be the more efficient to remove the MB compare to the PVA adsorbent. From the equilibrium data, the two models were used to illustrate the adsorption isotherm, which is Langmuir, and Freundlich isotherm. In this experiment, it was found that the Langmuir models were suitable to explain the adsorption of MB dye in this process that shown a single layer adsorption was formed on the adsorbents. While the kinetic studies showed that the pseudo-second-order kinetic models were involved that describes that the chemisorption process has taken place in this adsorption process. In addition, it can be proven with the adsorption capacity obtained by using this model more closely to the experimental result.
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spelling usm-550392022-09-30T08:19:02Z http://eprints.usm.my/55039/ Removal Of Methylene Blue Dye By Polyvinyl Alcohol/Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Adsorbents Zamri, Nurul Najihah T Technology TP Chemical Technology Nowadays, water pollution becomes a serious issue in most of the country due to the development industry around the world. Textile industries is a popular sector that uses dyes that cause lots of water removed are contaminated. In this study, PVA and PVA/MWCNTs adsorbent were synthesized by using the phase inversion method to be used as an adsorbent to remove the methylene blue (MB) dye. Several parameters such as initial concentration, contact time and, the adsorbent dosage were studied to evaluate the performance of adsorbents. Based on the results, PVA/MWCNTs adsorbents was able to remove 46.58% of MB while the PVA adsorbents was able to eliminate 44.71% of MB at equilibrium state with an initial concentration is 2 mg/L. Hence, PVA/MWCNTs adsorbent was found to be the more efficient to remove the MB compare to the PVA adsorbent. From the equilibrium data, the two models were used to illustrate the adsorption isotherm, which is Langmuir, and Freundlich isotherm. In this experiment, it was found that the Langmuir models were suitable to explain the adsorption of MB dye in this process that shown a single layer adsorption was formed on the adsorbents. While the kinetic studies showed that the pseudo-second-order kinetic models were involved that describes that the chemisorption process has taken place in this adsorption process. In addition, it can be proven with the adsorption capacity obtained by using this model more closely to the experimental result. Universiti Sains Malaysia 2021-06-01 Monograph NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/55039/1/Removal%20Of%20Methylene%20Blue%20Dye%20By%20Polyvinyl%20AlcoholMulti-Walled%20Carbon%20Nanotubes%20Adsorbents_Nurul%20Najihah%20Zamri_K4_2021_ESAR.pdf Zamri, Nurul Najihah (2021) Removal Of Methylene Blue Dye By Polyvinyl Alcohol/Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Adsorbents. Project Report. Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Kimia. (Submitted)
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TP Chemical Technology
Zamri, Nurul Najihah
Removal Of Methylene Blue Dye By Polyvinyl Alcohol/Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Adsorbents
title Removal Of Methylene Blue Dye By Polyvinyl Alcohol/Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Adsorbents
title_full Removal Of Methylene Blue Dye By Polyvinyl Alcohol/Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Adsorbents
title_fullStr Removal Of Methylene Blue Dye By Polyvinyl Alcohol/Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Adsorbents
title_full_unstemmed Removal Of Methylene Blue Dye By Polyvinyl Alcohol/Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Adsorbents
title_short Removal Of Methylene Blue Dye By Polyvinyl Alcohol/Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Adsorbents
title_sort removal of methylene blue dye by polyvinyl alcohol/multi-walled carbon nanotubes adsorbents
topic T Technology
TP Chemical Technology
url http://eprints.usm.my/55039/
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