Removal of of toxic metal ions (Ni2+ and Cd2+) from wastewater by using TOPO decorated iron oxide nanoparticles

Abstract

In real engineering applications, nanoparticles can face hurdles of complex behavior of pollutants, for which electrostatic forces and background electrolyte can prove to be one of the robust mechanisms to remove pollutants from wastewater. In the present work, magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles (NPs) and trioctyl phosphine oxide (TOPO) coated Fe3O4 NPs were synthesized and characterized for removing divalent Ni2+ and Cd2+ ions. Morphological and chemical analysis of both NPs was performed, and batch adsorption experiments were performed to study the influence of different pH ranges, concentrations of adsorbents and different contact timings. TOPO functionalized magnetite nanoparticles were found to have better adsorption capacities as compared to Fe3O4 at higher pH values. Isotherm models were run to identify the adsorption process. Langmuir isotherm model data fitted best for both metal ions adsorption, while Freundlich data suited best only for Ni2+ ions. The regression values for kinetic models confirmed that pseudo-second-order fitted best to the adsorption of both Ni2+ and Cd2+. Higher adsorption values were noticed for Ni2+ at higher dosages of both bare and TOPO-coated iron oxide NPs. Cadmium was found to have no influence of adsorbent dosage. Contact time was found to impact sorption values, i.e., adsorption was greater initially and then decreased with the passage of time. The study concludes that TOPO decorated Fe3O4 NPs can be more efficiently used for wastewater treatment. Furthermore, the presence of alkyl chains in TOPO can be immobilized at surface of metals to undergo adsorption more efficiently.

Kinetic and equilibrium study of graphene and copper oxides modified nanocomposites for metal ions adsorption from binary metal aqueous solution

“… Duan et al (2020) revealed that CuO/GO showed the highest value of the dye adsorption efficiency of 2.83 mg/g and suggested that experimental results were fitted best with pseudo-second-order model with R 2 = 0.99. Sosun et al (2022) studied that the best adsorption isotherm kinetic for the Ni 2+ and Cd 2+ ion removal was in favor of fitting of the pseudo-second-order model due to the best R 2 values obtained. They observed the maximum R 2 value of 0.98 for iron oxide nanoparticles (AgO-NP) for the removal of Ni 2+ and Cd 2+ ions in the case of pseudo-second-order model.…”

Оценка возможности использования отходов железо-магниевого производства для очистки сточных вод от тяжелых металлов (Cd2+, Zn2+, Co2+, Cu2+)

“…pH of the medium [24,25] affects both the chemical composition of the solution and the efficiency of the treatment process [26,27]. An equally important parameter for metal extraction from solution is also the dosage of the material under study [28][29][30].…”