Synthesis and Analysis of Impregnation on Activated Carbon in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube for Cu Adsorption from Wastewater
Industrial wastes contain more toxins that get dissolved in the rivers and lakes, which are means of freshwater reservoirs. The contamination of freshwater leads to various issues for microorganisms and humans. This paper proposes a novel method to remove excess copper from the water. The nanotubes...
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| author | L. Natrayan P. V. Arul Kumar Joshuva Arockia Dhanraj S. Kaliappan N. S. Sivakumar Pravin P. Patil S. Sekar Prabhu Paramasivam |
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| description | Industrial wastes contain more toxins that get dissolved in the rivers and lakes, which are means of freshwater reservoirs. The contamination of freshwater leads to various issues for microorganisms and humans. This paper proposes a novel method to remove excess copper from the water. The nanotubes are used as a powder in membrane form to remove the copper from the water. The multiwalled carbon nanotube is widely used as a membrane for filtration. It contains many graphene layers of nm size that easily adsorbs the copper when the water permeates through it. Activated carbon is the earliest and most economical method that also adsorbs copper to a certain extent. This paper proposes the methods of involving the activated carbon in the multiwalled carbon nanotube to improve the adsorption capability of the copper. Here, activated carbon is impregnated on the multiwalled carbon nanotube’s defect and imperfect surface areas. It makes more adsorption sites on the surface, increasing the adsorption amount. The same method is applied to Hydroxyl functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes. Both the methods showed better results and increased the copper removal. The functionalized method removed 93.82% copper, whereas the nonfunctionalized method removed 80.62% copper from the water. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ab46c70485bf47c0ac09e2482f2e21b82025-02-03T05:49:24ZengWileyBioinorganic Chemistry and Applications1687-479X2022-01-01202210.1155/2022/7470263Synthesis and Analysis of Impregnation on Activated Carbon in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube for Cu Adsorption from WastewaterL. Natrayan0P. V. Arul Kumar1Joshuva Arockia Dhanraj2S. Kaliappan3N. S. Sivakumar4Pravin P. Patil5S. Sekar6Prabhu Paramasivam7Department of Mechanical EngineeringDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringCentre for Automation and Robotics (ANRO)Department of Mechanical EngineeringDepartment of Mechatronics EngineeringDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringIndustrial wastes contain more toxins that get dissolved in the rivers and lakes, which are means of freshwater reservoirs. The contamination of freshwater leads to various issues for microorganisms and humans. This paper proposes a novel method to remove excess copper from the water. The nanotubes are used as a powder in membrane form to remove the copper from the water. The multiwalled carbon nanotube is widely used as a membrane for filtration. It contains many graphene layers of nm size that easily adsorbs the copper when the water permeates through it. Activated carbon is the earliest and most economical method that also adsorbs copper to a certain extent. This paper proposes the methods of involving the activated carbon in the multiwalled carbon nanotube to improve the adsorption capability of the copper. Here, activated carbon is impregnated on the multiwalled carbon nanotube’s defect and imperfect surface areas. It makes more adsorption sites on the surface, increasing the adsorption amount. The same method is applied to Hydroxyl functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes. Both the methods showed better results and increased the copper removal. The functionalized method removed 93.82% copper, whereas the nonfunctionalized method removed 80.62% copper from the water.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7470263 |
| spellingShingle | L. Natrayan P. V. Arul Kumar Joshuva Arockia Dhanraj S. Kaliappan N. S. Sivakumar Pravin P. Patil S. Sekar Prabhu Paramasivam Synthesis and Analysis of Impregnation on Activated Carbon in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube for Cu Adsorption from Wastewater Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications |
| title | Synthesis and Analysis of Impregnation on Activated Carbon in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube for Cu Adsorption from Wastewater |
| title_full | Synthesis and Analysis of Impregnation on Activated Carbon in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube for Cu Adsorption from Wastewater |
| title_fullStr | Synthesis and Analysis of Impregnation on Activated Carbon in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube for Cu Adsorption from Wastewater |
| title_full_unstemmed | Synthesis and Analysis of Impregnation on Activated Carbon in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube for Cu Adsorption from Wastewater |
| title_short | Synthesis and Analysis of Impregnation on Activated Carbon in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube for Cu Adsorption from Wastewater |
| title_sort | synthesis and analysis of impregnation on activated carbon in multiwalled carbon nanotube for cu adsorption from wastewater |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7470263 |
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