Issue 33, 2015

Response surface methodology approach for optimization of simultaneous dye and metal ion ultrasound-assisted adsorption onto Mn doped Fe3O4-NPs loaded on AC: kinetic and isothermal studies

Abstract

In the present work, the usefulness of ultrasonic power as a dispersion and mixing tool to accelerate the adsorption of Safranin O (SO), methylene blue (MB), Pb2+ ions and Cr3+ ions onto the novel composite Fe3O4-NPs-AC adsorbent was investigated. This new material was extensively characterized and analyzed by different techniques such as XRD, FESEM, Raman spectroscopy and FT-IR. Central composite design (CCD) based on designed runs revealed that adsorbent mass, sonication time, MB concentration, SO concentration, Pb2+ ion and Cr3+ ion concentration and some of their interactions have significant contributions to the target compounds removal percentages. A combination of response surface methodology and Design-Expert software was used to qualify and estimate the influence and magnitude of each terms contribution to the response. An optimization study using the following investigated increments of the effective variables, adsorbent mass (0.01–0.03 g), sonication time (2–6 min), initial dye concentration (5–25 mg L−1), and initial metal ion concentration (20–60 mg L−1), revealed that fixing the experimental variables at 0.025 g of Mn–Fe3O4-NPs-AC, with a 3 min sonication time, and 20 mg L−1 of MB, 10 mg L−1 of SO, 38 mg L−1 of Pb2+ ions and 42 mg L−1 of Cr3+ ions at room temperature lead to the achievement of the best characteristics and performance. Conduction of 32 experiments according to the limitations of CCD and a subsequent analysis of variance (ANOVA) gave useful information about the significant and also approximate contributions of each term (main and interaction of variables) in an empirical equation for the expected response. The results indicate that the R2 values are more than 0.988 and the adjusted R2 values are in reasonable agreement with R2. Under the optimal conditions, the MB, SO, Pb2+ ion and Cr3+ ion removal efficiencies reached 99.54%, 98.87%, 80.25% and 99.54% after 3 min, while their equilibrium data with high performance can be represented by Langmuir isotherms and a pseudo second-order kinetic model. The maximum adsorption capacities for the single component system, 229.4 mg g−1 for MB, 159.7 mg g−1 for SO, 139.5 mg g−1 for Pb2+ ions and 267.4 mg g−1 for Cr3+ ions, support the high efficiency of Mn–Fe3O4-NPs-AC as a new adsorbent.

Graphical abstract: Response surface methodology approach for optimization of simultaneous dye and metal ion ultrasound-assisted adsorption onto Mn doped Fe3O4-NPs loaded on AC: kinetic and isothermal studies

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
21 Apr 2015
Accepted
10 Jul 2015
First published
13 Jul 2015

Dalton Trans., 2015,44, 14707-14723

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Response surface methodology approach for optimization of simultaneous dye and metal ion ultrasound-assisted adsorption onto Mn doped Fe3O4-NPs loaded on AC: kinetic and isothermal studies

A. Asfaram, M. Ghaedi, A. Goudarzi and M. Rajabi, Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 14707 DOI: 10.1039/C5DT01504A

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