Stability and performance studies of emulsion liquid membrane on pesticides removal using mixture of Fe3O4Â nanoparticles and span80

Abstract

• Study the effect of Span 80 and Fe3O4on the stability of emulsion liquid membrane. • Investigate the effect of different parameters on the stability and extraction efficiency. • 99% of Abamectin extracted and 0.52% breakage percent achieved at the best conditions. • The extraction kinetic and mass transfer coefficient were accomplished. The current study investigated the impact of nonionic surfactant span 80 in the existence of Fe 3 O 4 magnetic nanoparticles on the emulsification of mixture of kerosene as petroleum based organic solvents and corn oil as a green diluent in the ratio 1:1, HCl was used as internal phase and the stability of the emulsion was carried out. The proposed Pickering emulsion liquid membrane has been exploited to investigate it is ability in the extraction of Abamectin pesticides from aqueous solution without utilizing carrier agent. Further, the effects of experimental parameters on extraction efficiency and emulsion stability such as, homogenizer speed, emulsification speed, contact time, Fe 3 O 4 -Span 80 ratios, HCL concentration, internal to membrane volume ratio (I/O) and pH of the external feed solution were carried out. The results showed that more than 99% of Abamectin could be extracted at 10 min contact time with a minimum breakage percent of 0.52% at the optimal conditions. The kinetic of the extraction were studied and the mass transfer coefficient was found to be for external phase ( K M ) of 1.2 × 10 − 7 , interfacial reaction rate constant ( K F ) of 5.83 × 10 − 8 and the overall mass transfer coefficient ( K O ) of 3.91 × 10 − 8 . The results of recyclability of the PELM revealed that the emulsion stability and extraction efficiency was nearly unchanged after three cycles.