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- Title
Cellulose-Based Waste in a Close Loop as an Adsorbent for Removing Dyes from Textile Industry Wastewater.
- Authors
Vukčević, Marija; Maletić, Marina; Pejić, Biljana; Kalijadis, Ana; Kostić, Mirjana; Trivunac, Katarina; Perić Grujić, Aleksandra
- Abstract
In an attempt to reuse fibrous textile waste and, at the same time, to address dye pollution in textile wastewater, waste cotton-based yarn was utilized as a cheap and sustainable adsorbent, as well as a row material for carbon adsorbent production. Unmodified yarn and cotton-based carbon adsorbents were used as adsorbents for dye removal from water. Cotton and cotton/polyester yarn samples underwent thermal modification through carbonization followed by chemical activation with KOH. Various techniques, including scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, nitrogen adsorption–desorption isotherms, and surface charge determination, were employed to analyze the morphological and surface characteristics of the cotton-based adsorbents. Adsorption properties were evaluated by testing the removal of selected cationic and anionic dyes from water. The impact of temperature, initial pH and concentration of the dye solution, and contact time on adsorption were investigated, and experimentally obtained data were analyzed using theoretical models. While carbonization alone did not significantly enhance adsorption properties, activated samples exhibited high efficacy in removing both cationic and anionic dyes from water. Despite the negative influence of the polyester component in the carbon precursor on the efficiency of activated samples in removing methyl orange, the results indicated that activated cotton and cotton/polyester yarn could be used to prepare highly efficient adsorbents for the rapid removal of methylene blue from real wastewater samples.
- Subjects
TEXTILE cleaning &; dyeing industry; CARBON-based materials; METHYLENE blue; FOURIER transform infrared spectroscopy; CARBONIZATION; SEWAGE; BASIC dyes
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2024, Vol 16, Issue 9, p3660
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su16093660