Application of the novel pH‐catalytic‐magnetic tri‐functionalities augmented bead for removal of organic dye pollutants

Abstract

AbstractA tri‐functionality magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) are crucial for environmental remediation. This research focused on the synthesis of pH‐catalytic‐magnetic polymer beads for dye removal by using phase inversion technique. In 15 wt% of polyethersulfone (PES) polymer possessed the highest porosity (80%) was used in the synthesis of MNPs‐PES beads. The methylene blue (MB) removal efficiency of MNPs‐PES beads and PES beads was 72.94% and 62.67%, respectively. Similarly, the removal efficiency of methyl orange (MO) dye is higher for MNPs‐PES beads (38.56%) compared to PES beads (34.16%). Besides, the removal efficiency for MB dye by MNPs‐PES beads increased from 77.59% to 96.90% when solution pH increased from 3 to 9 while removal of MO dye increased from 61.14% to 74.35% when solution pH decreased from 9 to 3. Moreover, the removal efficiency for MB dye increased from 72.94% to 93.43% when H2O2 is added. Additionally, MNPs‐PES beads were recollected successfully using external magnet. These indirectly proved that the MNPs‐PES beads were responsive towards the tri‐functionalities of pH‐catalytic‐magnetic. Lastly, the adsorption of MB dye onto MNPs‐PES beads were fitted well to Langmuir isotherm model and pseudo‐second‐order model with both correlations R2 of more than 0.98.