A readily separated composite was prepared via direct assembly of Fe₃O4 magnetic nanoparticles onto the surface of graphene oxide (GO) (labeled as Fe₃O₄@GO) and used as an adsorbent for the removal of tetracycline (TC) from wastewater. The effects of external environmental conditions, such as pH, ionic strength, humic acid (HA), TC concentration, and temperature, on the adsorption process were ...

–The use of powder of calcined brick (PCB) as the low-cost adsorbents was investigated as a replacement for current costly methods of removing nickel ions from aqueous solutions. Batch adsorption studies were conducted to examine the effects of physico-chemical key parameters such as the stirring rate, initial metal ion concentration, pH, agitation time, particle size and adsorbent dosage on th...

This study focused on evaluating the efficiency of powdered activated carbon (PAC) adsorption process and tackling chlorobenzenes and chlorophenols spill in drinking water source. The adsorption kinetics and PAC’s capacities for five chlorobenzenes and three chlorophenols at drinking water contamination levels were studied in order to determine the influence of different functional groups on th...

photoreactor using solar radiation. the effect of various parameters such as ph, initial concentration of pollutant, catalyst dose, oxidant, and time variation were studied. the determination of the best catalyst was studied amongst the four catalysts (tio2, zno, psa and ssa) .the kinetics of degradation of isooctane was also studied. the results showed that tio2 was the best catalyst with a de...

The removal of Cd2+ and Pb2+ ions from wastewater using p-tert-butyl-calix[4] arene was investigated in terms of initial pH, initial concentration, adsorbent dosage, contact time and temperature. The maximum adsorption occurred at the pH value of 6. The adsorbent studied exhibits high efficiency for Cd (II)and Pb (II) adsorption and the equilibrium states could be achieved in 10 min. Adsorption...

The work focuses on the removing of Cu(II) from aqueous solution by Linde F(K) zeolite. The zeolite is synthesized from fly ash by hydrothermal process. The adsorption experiments discuss several factors including the optimal solution pH, zeolite dosage, adsorption temperature, adsorption kinetics and adsorption isotherm equation. The results show that, the optima...

The present work was undertaken to evaluate the feasibility of nickel (II) removal from aqueous solution by adsorption onto a biopolymer adsorbent. The adsorbent was prepared using modification of mesoporous silicate SBA-15 with alginate biopolymer (alginateSBA-15) by encapsulation method. Morphological structure of the obtained nanocomposite adsorbent was characterized by XRD, scanning electro...

In this study, nano-TiO2 was employed for the adsorption of chloroform from aqueous solution in batch equilibrium experiments to investigate its adsorption properties. The effects of pH, initial chloroform concentration and nano-TiO2 dosage were also investigated. Optimal conditions for chloroform removal by nano-TiO2 have been then identified. Results of equilibrium experiments showed that the...

This study investigated arsenate and arsenite adsorption on an iron(III) oxide/silica adsorbent that had a Fe/Si molar ratio of 3. Batch experiments were conducted with regard to adsorption kinetics, isotherms, pH effects and interference of phosphate and sulfate on arsenic adsorption. The adsorption of arsenite was faster than that of arsenate. The adsorption kinetics could be well described b...

A moving, solidifying interface that grows by the instantaneous adsorption of a diffusing solute can be described by equations analogous to those of the classical one-sided Stefan problem for solidification. However, the behavior of precipitate growth by material deposition can depend on both surface kinetics and bulk drift of the depositing species. We generalize the Stefan problem and its int...