Allyl triphenyl phosphonium bromide based DES-functionalized carbon nanotubes for the removal of mercury from water.

Chemosphere

University of Malaya Centre for Ionic Liquids (UMCiL), University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 50603, Malaysia; Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 50603, Malaysia.

Published: January 2017

Recently, deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have shown their new and interesting ability for chemistry through their involvement in variety of applications. This study introduces carbon nanotubes (CNTs) functionalized with DES as a novel adsorbent for Hg from water. Allyl triphenyl phosphonium bromide (ATPB) was combined with glycerol as the hydrogen bond donor (HBD) to form DES, which can act as a novel CNTs functionalization agent. The novel adsorbent was characterized using Raman, FTIR, XRD, FESEM, EDX, BET surface area, TGA, TEM and Zeta potential. Response surface methodology was used to optimize the removal conditions for Hg. The optimum removal conditions were found to be pH 5.5, contact time 28 min, and an adsorbent dosage of 5 mg. Freundlich isotherm model described the adsorption isotherm of the novel adsorbent, and the maximum adsorption capacity obtained from the experimental data was 186.97 mg g. Pseudo-second order kinetics describes the adsorption rate order.

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