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A novel technique for detoxification of phenol from wastewater: Nanoparticle Assisted Nano Filtration (NANF)

BACKGROUND: Phenol is one of the most versatile and important organic compound. It is also a growing concern as water pollutants due to its high persistence and toxicity. Removal of Phenol from wastewaters was investigated using a novel nanoparticle adsorption and nanofiltration technique named as N...

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Autores principales: Naidu, L. D., Saravanan, S., Goel, Mukesh, Periasamy, S., Stroeve, Pieter
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4879755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27226897
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40201-016-0249-8
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author Naidu, L. D.
Saravanan, S.
Goel, Mukesh
Periasamy, S.
Stroeve, Pieter
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Saravanan, S.
Goel, Mukesh
Periasamy, S.
Stroeve, Pieter
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description BACKGROUND: Phenol is one of the most versatile and important organic compound. It is also a growing concern as water pollutants due to its high persistence and toxicity. Removal of Phenol from wastewaters was investigated using a novel nanoparticle adsorption and nanofiltration technique named as Nanoparticle Assisted Nano Filtration (NANF). METHODS: The nanoparticle used for NANF study were silver nanoparticles and synthesized to three distinct average particle sizes of 10 nm, 40 nm and 70 nm. The effect of nanoparticle size, their concentrations and their tri and diparticle combinations upon phenol removal were studied. RESULTS: Total surface areas (TSA) for various particle size and concentrations have been calculated and the highest was 4710 × 10(12 )nm(2 )for 10 nm particles and 180 ppm concentration while the lowest was for 2461 × 10(11) for 70 nm and 60 ppm concentrations. Tri and diparticle studies showed more phenol removal % than that of their individual particles, particularly for using small particles on large membrane pore size and large particles at low concentrations. These results have also been confirmed with COD and toxicity removal studies. CONCLUSIONS: The combination of nanoparticles adsorption and nanofiltration results in high phenol removal and mineralization, leading to the conclusion that NANF has very high potential for treating toxic chemical wastewaters.
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spelling pubmed-48797552016-05-26 A novel technique for detoxification of phenol from wastewater: Nanoparticle Assisted Nano Filtration (NANF) Naidu, L. D. Saravanan, S. Goel, Mukesh Periasamy, S. Stroeve, Pieter J Environ Health Sci Eng Research Article BACKGROUND: Phenol is one of the most versatile and important organic compound. It is also a growing concern as water pollutants due to its high persistence and toxicity. Removal of Phenol from wastewaters was investigated using a novel nanoparticle adsorption and nanofiltration technique named as Nanoparticle Assisted Nano Filtration (NANF). METHODS: The nanoparticle used for NANF study were silver nanoparticles and synthesized to three distinct average particle sizes of 10 nm, 40 nm and 70 nm. The effect of nanoparticle size, their concentrations and their tri and diparticle combinations upon phenol removal were studied. RESULTS: Total surface areas (TSA) for various particle size and concentrations have been calculated and the highest was 4710 × 10(12 )nm(2 )for 10 nm particles and 180 ppm concentration while the lowest was for 2461 × 10(11) for 70 nm and 60 ppm concentrations. Tri and diparticle studies showed more phenol removal % than that of their individual particles, particularly for using small particles on large membrane pore size and large particles at low concentrations. These results have also been confirmed with COD and toxicity removal studies. CONCLUSIONS: The combination of nanoparticles adsorption and nanofiltration results in high phenol removal and mineralization, leading to the conclusion that NANF has very high potential for treating toxic chemical wastewaters. BioMed Central 2016-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4879755/ /pubmed/27226897 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40201-016-0249-8 Text en © Naidu et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Naidu, L. D.
Saravanan, S.
Goel, Mukesh
Periasamy, S.
Stroeve, Pieter
A novel technique for detoxification of phenol from wastewater: Nanoparticle Assisted Nano Filtration (NANF)
title A novel technique for detoxification of phenol from wastewater: Nanoparticle Assisted Nano Filtration (NANF)
title_full A novel technique for detoxification of phenol from wastewater: Nanoparticle Assisted Nano Filtration (NANF)
title_fullStr A novel technique for detoxification of phenol from wastewater: Nanoparticle Assisted Nano Filtration (NANF)
title_full_unstemmed A novel technique for detoxification of phenol from wastewater: Nanoparticle Assisted Nano Filtration (NANF)
title_short A novel technique for detoxification of phenol from wastewater: Nanoparticle Assisted Nano Filtration (NANF)
title_sort novel technique for detoxification of phenol from wastewater: nanoparticle assisted nano filtration (nanf)
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4879755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27226897
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40201-016-0249-8
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