Improving toxic dye removal and remediation using novel nanocomposite fibrous adsorbent

Abstract

Materials with regulated nanoscale morphology provide capabilities to remove dangerous pollutants from wastewater, by adsorption. In this study, the chitosan-based composite fibrous adsorbent was fabricated and used as a novel and facile eliminator in the process of removing cationic methyl orange (MO) from the water medium. Different methods were applied to check the properties of the desired composite fibrous adsorbent. The removal value showed that the chitosan-embedded composite fibrous adsorbent has super characteristics and can be removed the organic dye from the water. The influence of pH, time, temperature, eliminator quantity, and MO content was explored. With increasing time and eliminator quantity, the adsorption efficiency increased. The composite fibrous adsorbent with the advantage of its high functionality and combined micro-nanomorphology features, has emerged as a very promising candidate for obtaining versatile and robust adsorbents. This work presents how the tunned synthesis of composite fibrous adsorbent tailored their nanoarchitecture giving rise to adsorption capacities toward cleaning aqueous samples polluted with MO dye. The composite fibrous adsorbent was prepared by the direct immobilization method, with normal aging temperature, in order to study the effect of synthesis conditions on the adsorption properties of MO dye. The solution acidity was exhibited as the key factor, and a suitable pH of 5.50 was selected based on the efficiency. The competing ions were not adversely affected in the dye adsorption as defined by the stable bonding mechanism. The adsorption data were highly fitted with the Langmuir adsorption model with monolayer coverage. The determined maximum adsorption was 175.45 mg/g, which was comparable with the other forms of materials. The adsorbed MO dye elution was evaluated using ethanol and then the composite fibrous adsorbent was ready to use for MO dye adsorption after washing with water without significant loss in its functionality. Therefore, we explored the tunned morphology of composite fibrous adsorbent for obtaining performant adsorbents for the elimination of refractory pollutants in wastewater.