Hybrid nanocellulose material as an adsorbent to remove reactive yellow 2 dye

Beatris L. Mello, Pascal S. Thue, Pâmela V. da Silva, Caroline Saucier, Glaydson S. dos Reis, Fernando M. Machado, Rafael de Avila Delucis, Mu Naushad, Farooq Sher, Moaaz K. Seliem, Eder C. Lima

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Abstract

Textile dyes are frequently disposable in aqueous effluents, making it difficult to remove them from industrial effluents before their release to natural waters. This paper deals with the fabrication of cellulose-based adsorbents by reacting nanocelulose crystalline (nanocel) with N-[3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl]ethylenediamine (TMSPEDA), forming the hybrid (silylpropyl)ethylenediamine@nanocellulose (SPEDA@nanocel), which was employed as adsorbent for the uptake of reactive yellow 2 dye (RY-2) from aqueous effluents. Characterisation of SPEDA@nanocel was carried out using FTIR, SEM–EDS, XRD, TGA, surface area, pH pzc, and hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity ratio (HI). Also, adsorption studies were thoroughly investigated. The effect of initial pH indicated that the maximum uptake of RY-2 takes place at pH 2, which is an indication of the electrostatic mechanism. The kinetic data carried out with 250 and 500 mg L −1 RY-2 with SPEDA@nanocel followed better the nonlinear fractional-like pseudo-first-order model. The t 0.5 and t 0.95 for the dye uptake were about 30 and 141 min, respectively. The equilibrium data from 10 to 45 °C indicated that the Liu isotherm model was the best-fitted isothermal model. The maximum sorption capacity attained was 112.3 mg g −1 at 45 °C. The thermodynamic data have shown that the equilibrium was favorable and endothermic, and the ΔH° was compatible with an electrostatic attraction between RY-2 and SPEDA@nanocel. Experiments of desorption of loaded adsorbent showed promising results for real applications since at least 5 adsorption/desorption cycles could be employed without significant changes in the recovery and with high precision.

Original languageEnglish
Article number20074
JournalScientific Reports
Volume14
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2024
Externally publishedYes
MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

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