Abstract
The adsorption of three organic micropollutants (diclofenac - DFN, pentachlorophenol - PCP and octylphenol - OP) on two kinds of carbon nanotubes (single walled carbon nanotubes - SWCNT and single walled carbon nanotubes with amine group - SWCNT-NH2) was investigated, in single and bicomponent solution at pH 5. SWCNT-NH2 had three times lower specific surface area than SWCNT. Significant differences were observed in sorption capacity of SWCNT and SWCNT-NH2 for given chemicals. The sorption uptake changes in the following order: OP > PCP > DFN for SWCNT and DFN > PCP > OP for SWCNT-NH2. A few times higher adsorption of OP on SWCNT came from low OP solubility in water in comparison to PCP and DFN. While, higher adsorption of DFN and PCP on SWCNT-NH2 was a result of electrostatic attraction between dissociated form of these chemicals and positively charged SWCNT-NH2 at pH 5. In adsorption from bicomponent solution, significant competition was observed between PCP and DFN due to similar adsorption mechanism on SWCNT-NH2. Opposite tendency was observed for SWCNT, DFN did not greatly affect adsorption of PCP and OP since they were very easily absorbable by sigma-sigma interaction.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 00076 |
| Journal | E3S Web of Conferences |
| Volume | 22 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 7 Nov 2017 |
| Event | International Conference on Advances in Energy Systems and Environmental Engineering, ASEE 2017 - Wroclaw, Poland Duration: 2 Jul 2017 → 5 Jul 2017 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Environmental Science
- General Energy
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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