Abstract
Sorption of calcium ion from the hard underground water using novel oxidized graphene (GO) sheets was studied in this paper. Physicochemical properties and microstructure of graphene sheets were investigated using Raman spectrometer, thermogravimetry analyzer, transmission electron microscope, scanning electron microscope. The kinetics adsorption of calcium on graphene oxide sheets was examined using Lagergren first and second orders. The results show that the Lagergren second-order was the best-fit model that suggests the conception process of calcium ion adsorption on the Go sheets. For isothermal studies, the Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm models were used at temperatures ranging between 283 and 313 K. Thermodynamic parameters resolved at 283, 298 and 313 K indicating that the GO adsorption was exothermic spontaneous process. Finally, the graphene sheets show high partiality toward calcium particles and it will be useful in softening and treatment of hard water.
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Introduction
For a long time, graphene was a simple idea used as a spellbinding method for more unpredictable types of fresh-smelling carbon and a basic framework for strong state theoreticians. Graphene is a nuclear scale where flimsy sheets of the cross section that made of carbon particles (Lin et al. 2013). The seclusion of a single or few layer graphene from graphite sources has pulled in expanding consideration because, knowing about graphene will display novel physical-concoction properties, like high values of Yong’s modulus, crack quality (Wang et al. 2015a, b), warm conductivity, particular surface zone, adsorption limit, and electrical conductivity. Graphene nanosheets have pulled in impressive interest because of their curious properties in crucial research and potential mechanical applications in vitality stockpiling materials (Cheng and Bi 2013), polymer composites, and straightforward conductors. Graphene oxide can be gained by the peeling of graphite oxide (Wu et al. 2013). The tunable oxygen and practical gatherings of graphene oxide encourage surface solutions and make it a promising material for the readiness of composites with natural and in natural materials.
Various modern advances are needed for hard water treatment process, which in numerous examples include a calcium evacuation stage (Zhao et al. 2015). Current ocean water handling innovations, for example, particle trade recuperation of magnesium, likewise oblige preparatory evacuation of calcium illustration is a preparatory treatment of ocean water preceding its further desalination. Profound calcination would tackle the issues of gypsum center arrange on radiator surfaces of distiller and stopping up of films in opposite osmosis or electrodialysis devices (Jiang et al. 2015).
This paper focus on synthesis, characterization and study the adsorption of calcium ions on the newly oxidized graphene sheets from hard synthetic water, and also study the dynamic behavior of adsorption process by kinetic and isothermal models.
Experimental
Instrumentation
XRD characterization was performed on an X-ray Diffractometer System (D/MAX 2200H, Bede 200, Riga goes Instruments C). The FTIR spectrum (1000–2000 cm−1) was measured using a Thermoscientific FTIR spectrometer with pure KBr as the background. The samples were mixed with KBr and the mixture was dried and compressed into a transparent tablet for measurement. The surface morphology of all the samples was analyzed using a high-resolution transmission electron microscope (HR-TEM, FEI Titan 80-300).
Preparation of cobalt silicate nanoparticles
Cobalt silicate nanoparticles were prepared according to (Fu et al. 2006). In this respect, 4.0 g of the freshly prepared cobalt nitrate and silica was vigorously stirred with 200 ml of ethanol for 30 min at 45 °C, then 40 ml of water, and 4 ml (1.4 M) of NaOH was added to the above suspension. Then the powder was separated and dried at 50 °C for 8 h in a vacuum oven.
Preparation of cobalt silicate nanoparticles
A cobalt silicate nanoparticle was prepared according to Stöber et al. method. In this respect, 4.0 g of the freshly prepared cobalt nitrate and silica were vigorously stirred with 200 ml of ethanol for 30 min at 45 °C, then 40 ml water, and 4 ml (1.4 M) NaOH was added to the above suspension. Then the powder was separated and dried at 50 °C for 8 h in a vacuum oven to get cobalt silicate nanoparticles (Calderón-Villajos et al. 2010; Wang et al. 2015a, b).
Rice straw pretreatments
The hemicellulose in rice straw was solubilized by dilute acid hydrolysis at 120 °C for 60 min, using 1 % (wt/wt) sulphuric acid. The resulting residue was subjected to the delignification process at 120 °C for 60 min using a mixture of 1.5 % (wt/wt) NaOH and 0.5 % (wt/wt) H2O2. During the dilute acid hydrolysis, the hemicellulose got solubilized in the form of monomeric sugars into the hydrolyzate and the succeeding delignification process removed lignin and a few amount of silica present in the pretreated rice straw into the black liquor.
Chemical exfoliation of cellulose
5 grams of cellulose were added to 5 ml of concentrated sulfuric acid in the presence of 0.1 g of silica and steered for 10 min., then filtrated and washing it with hot water until pH 7 and saved in an oven at 40 °C for 6 h. The prepared carbon material was poured in a flask in the presence of 0.01 g cobalt silicate nanoparticle and heated to 40 °C for 30 min. The prepared carbon nanomaterials were left to cool for 1 h, later dried in a vacuum oven for 24 h at 50–70 °C to obtain on graphene sheets (El-Sayed et al 2016).
Adsorption kinetics
The adsorption of kinetics studies was carried out on the freshly prepared Go in a 500 ml round bottom flask fitted with 500 mg/l of calcium ion concentration at pH 6. The solution is kept under continuous agitation with a magnetic stirrer at 600 RPM for 2 h, the sample was taken out for each 10 min and filtrated quickly on Whatman paper number GF-A layer, and the residual calcium ion concentration in the liquid phase was analyzed using AAS (Ma et al. 2009; Couper et al. 2012).
Adsorption isotherm
The adsorption isotherm studies are carried out for each 5 ml of fresh Go sheets in 50 ml round bottom flask fitted with 100, 200, and 500 mg/l calcium ion concentrations adjusted at pH 6, the temperature is varied between 20, 40, and 60 °C. The solution is kept under continuous agitation with a magnetic stirrer at 600 rpm for 2 h (Van de Steene et al. 2012; De Clercq et al. 2012). The sample was taken out for each 10 min and filtrated quickly on Whatman paper number GF-A layer. Then the calcium ion concentration was measured in the filtrates using AAS.
Results
FTIR analysis
The infrared spectra shown in Fig. 1 confirm absorption band observed at 2784 cm−1 is due to the C–H stretching of aromatic olefins (Fiocco et al. 2015). A strong, broad absorbance band observed at 3500 cm−1, due to O–H stretching vibrations. The spectra exhibit a broad between 2500 and 3800 cm−1, corresponding to the stretching vibrations band of the surface silanols Si–OH perturbed either by hydrogen bonding intramolecularly or with adsorbed water. Below 1500 cm−1, the spectra exhibit a broad and intense band around 1100 cm−1, characteristic of the ant symmetric stretching vibration of the Si–O–Si, thoroughly drying the sample before analysis will cut out vibrations due to water, while surface –OH groups can be significant and a less intense band around 900 cm−1 (Si–O–Si asymmetric stretching vibrations). A weaker O–H bending vibration band is seen at 1600 cm−1. Both adsorbed water and surface –OH groups contribute to these bands.
Figure 2 shows the IR-spectrum of white microcrystalline cellulose from 800 to 2000 cm−1. The absorption bands at 1593, 1408, and 1317 cm−1 are assigned to asymmetrical COO– stretching, symmetrical stretching and C–H bending, respectively. The appearance of these bands confirms the formation of microcrystalline cellulose (Zhao et al. 2011; Bettaieb et al. 2015; Chen et al. 2015a, b). The infrared spectra shown in Fig. 2 confirm an absorption band observed at 2901 cm−1 this is due to the C–H vibration stretch of the –CH2 groups from primary alcohols. The other band of interest is observed at 2000–2100 cm−1, where a comparison of the two spectra reveals modifications, with emphasis on the band at 1750 cm−1, which is attributed to the axial deformation vibration of C=O from carboxylic acids.
The FT-IR spectra of GO in Fig. 3 that was shows the presence of various oxygen functional groups in GO appeared as a broadband at 3000–3700 cm−1 was contributed to hydroxyl groups, due to the water molecules and to the hydroxyl groups of GO. A band at 1760 cm−1 was assigned to be the C–O stretching vibrations of the COOH groups and the band at 1600 cm−1 would be considered to be the vibration of C (Aleksandrzak et al. 2015). A weak peak located at 1350 cm−1 was assigned to be the OH bending of the C–OH groups (Bavand et al. 2015). A strong band at 1100 cm−1 might be attributed to C–O stretching vibration (Chang et al. 2015; Singh et al. 2015).
Raman analysis
Raman spectra can be divided into two regions. The region below 1600 cm−1 (especially below 700 cm−1) is most sensitive to the conformation of the cellulose backbone, but the region above 2700 cm−1 is more sensitive to hydrogen bonding (Altava et al. 2001; Chen et al. 2015a, b). Figure 4 presents Raman spectra of cellulose I for the 150–1650 cm−1 spectral range. The spectra are for microcrystalline celluloses (cellulose powder, Aldrich) from rice straw as an example of different proportions of crystalline cellulose. This would suggest that microcrystalline cellulose contains a higher crystalline cellulose (Ribeiro-Soares et al. 2015).
Raman spectroscopy is the most appealing technique to characterize carbon compounds because of its nondestructive, fast and high-resolution analysis, and gives the structural and electronic information as shown in Fig. 5 (Chang et al. 2015). All the sp2 carbon materials exhibit a very sharp peak around 2500–2800 cm−1 in the Raman spectra (Chen et al. 2015a, b). A sharp 2D-band around 2690–2700 cm−1 in is a signature of the sp2 graphitic system. The 2D-band is a second-order two-phonon process and frequency dependent on the energy of excitation laser (Tiwari et al. 2015).
So, it can be used to quantify the number of graphene layers. The shape and nature of 2D band are pretty much different from that in the single-layered and few-layered graphene (Giusca et al. 2015) is due to E 2g mode at the Γ-point and it arises from the stretching mode of C–C bond in graphitic materials, and is common to all sp2 carbons.
It is highly sensitive to strain effects in the sp2 system; thus, the D-band represents the disordered structure of graphene (mainly sp3 hybridized carbon atoms) which makes Raman spectroscopy as one of the most sensitive techniques to characterize graphene and its derivatives. The typical feature of graphene can be characterized by G-band at ∼1580 cm−1, and 2D band at ∼2710 cm−1 appears for GO samples. GO sample shows prominent D-band peak at ∼1350 cm−1. Other defective bands such as D band (1620 cm−1) and D + G band (2947 cm−1) are absent in GO samples (Singh et al. 2015).
X-ray analysis
Figure 6 shows the XRD pattern of the microcrystalline cellulose. The cellulose displays a broad diffraction with 2θ ranging from 5° to 35°, suggesting the amorphous structure of the polymeric scaffold (Oun and Rhim 2015). Besides the broad diffraction ascribed to the polymeric scaffold, the diffraction pattern for pristine MCC shows an intense peak at 15°, 16°, 22°, 23° and 26° that are the characteristic peaks of microcrystalline cellulose fibers, which coincides with reported literature values (Lopes et al. 2015; Ribeiro-Soares et al. 2015).
Figure 7 presents the XRD patterns of GO. The d spacing of the lowest peak is found to be 1.0–1.02 nm, which is 20 % larger than that of pristine GO (Giri et al. 2013; Modak et al. 2015. We found that GO exhibited two—≈12.9° and 22.7°. The former peak is correlated to an interlayer spacing of 0.68 nm in the layer-like GO. This value can be assigned to the (001) reflection peak and might depend on the method of preparation and on the number of layers of water in the gallery space of GO at 2θ ≈ 22.7° relative to (002) plane (Giusca et al. 2015).
Thermal analysis
Thermal gravity analysis (TGA) was carried out on the synthesized microcrystalline cellulose fibers, and the result is presented in Fig. 8. Two distinct weight losses are observed in the thermogram of MCC fibers. The first weight loss is about 24.51 % and started at temperature range between 30 and 135 °C, this may be due to the moisture in the sample. This is because biopolymer absorbs moisture from its surroundings as reported by Oun and Rhim (2015). A similar observation has been reported by Quinlan et al. (2015). The second weight loss is 14.79 % and started at temperature range of 250–323 °C due to the loss of COO– from the polysaccharide, our assumption are in a good agrement with that found by Shen et al. (2014). The final loss is about 7.05 % and observed at temperature range between 373 and 511 °C, representing the degradation of the remaining material into carbon residues.
The thermogravimetric analysis results showed that the graphene sheets had good thermal stability below 400 °C and up to 600 °C. The mass loss at a temperature below 100 °C is due to the removal of absorbed water and can be seen for all samples in Fig. 9. For GO, two stages of mass loss are shown; the first stage starts at 150 °C is due to the loss of hydroxyl, epoxy functional groups and remaining water molecules. The second stage lay between 450 and 650 °C and involved the pyrolysis of the remaining oxygen-containing groups and cause formation of carbon ring (Dong et al. 2015). Finally, a slight weight loss appeared from 250 to 800 °C is caused by the decomposition of the carbon skeleton.
HR-TEM analysis
HR-TEM analyses in Fig. 10 showed that the cobalt silicate nanoparticles got by co-precipitation and hydrothermal processes could be readily tailored by varying reaction time, this due to high respect ratio, high surface area, high reactivity, agglomeration and aggregation of cobalt silicate nanoparticles, and the possibility of creating a new material with peculiar properties.
HR-TEM micrograph of a very dilute suspension cellulose nanoparticles in Fig. 11, showing agglomerated fiber network. The diameter of cellulose fiber has a wide range of distribution, but the size lies within the range of the most ‘network-like’ and their length lay between 250 and 480 nm and their diameter between 20 and 60 nm. Their compact agglomeration of cellulose nanoparticles shows that cellulose chains have an intermolecular hydrogen bonding and a strong hydrophilic interaction in between the cellulosic chains (Trache et al. 2014).
The heterostructure of graphene sheets are verified by morphological analyzer of SEM, HR-TEM and SAED images. HR-TEM of graphene sheets in Fig. 12 show that transparent carbon sheets almost have diameters achieved between 40 and 200 nm. This means that the cobalt silicate nanoparticles on the graphene surface acted as nanoscale spacers and increases the spacing between the next carbons sheets, thereby, preventing van der Waals contacts between neighboring graphene sheets and a corresponding graphitic structure. We found that the anchored cobalt silicate nanoparticles distributed uniformly on these single carbon sheet. These monolayer sheets have a large area, therefore, their particles can deposit on both sides of these sheets and make an excellent candidates for the electrochemical application (Dong et al. 2015).
SAED analysis
The absence of diffuse diffraction ring pattern and presence of spot pattern in SAED image in Fig. 13, confirmed the crystalline graphitic layer of the prepared graphene oxide sheets as illustrated by Giri et al. (2013). The mechanism and efficiency of exfoliation can be explained based on cobalt silicates nanoparticles intercalation and exfoliation of graphene sheets during the chemical process as explained in the mechanism of exfoliation section.
Effect of contact time and adsorption kinetics
To show contact time between the oxides graphene sheets and calcium ion solution, the adsorption capacities of calcium ion were measured as a function of time as illustrated in Fig. 14. The plot shows that the rate of Ca(II) adsorption is higher at the beginning time until 60 min., because the bigger surface territory of the oxide graphene sheets being accessible at starting for the adsorption of calcium ions (Zhao et al. 2011).
As the surface of the adsorption process appears to get to be depleted, the uptake rate is controlled by the rate at which the adsorbent is transported from the outside to the inside locales of the adsorbent particles. The rate of Ca(II) evacuation achieved roughly after 60 min blending. It does not appear to enjoy much a blending time longer than 2 h as like other works (Agarwal et al. 2016; Ahmed and Jhung 2016). Then along these lines, balance time of 60 min, was chosen for each single further study.
The kinetic equations were developed to explain the transport of calcium ions onto adsorbents as illustrated in Figs. 15 and 16). These equations include the pseudo-first-order equation, the pseudo-second-order equation, and second-order rate equation model (Baláž et al. 2015; Liu et al. 2016a, b).
The pseudo-first-orders was given by:
where w e (constant of pseudo-first-order adsorption (min−1). k 1,ads, and q e can be determined from slope and intercept, respectively (Liu et al. 2015a, b).
The pseudo-second-order reaction kinetic is expressed as:
where k 2,abs is the rate constant of pseudo-second-order absorption (g/(again)) and q e is the adsorption capacity at equilibrium (mg/g).
The second-order rate equation is expressed as
where q e and q t are the amounts of metal ion sorbed at equilibrium and at any time (mg/g), respectively, but k 0 is second-order rate constant of adsorption (g/(mg min)) (Liu et al. 2015a, b).
As shown from the kinetic parameters in Table 1 The correlation coefficients of pseudo-first-order kinetic less than 0.99, whereas the correlation coefficients of the second-order are more noteworthy than 0.99 and that gives the best association of data to apply for the second order adsorption model of Ca(II) onto oxidized graphene sheets. We found that, adsorption kinetic parameters of calcium ion on our oxidized graphene sheets agree with the adsorption nature of the other graphene oxide. Which is produced by another process with increasing adsorption capacity of our graphene oxidized sheets toward calcium ions respecting to other ions in the same rank, so a pseudo-second demand model can be considered (Pang et al. 2016, Liu et al. 2016a, b; Tan et al. 2016). The latter is shown that the rate determining step may be chemical adsorption one through the exchange of electrons amidst adsorbent and adsorbate.
Effect of temperatures variations
The effect of temperature of ions sorption on GO is represented in Fig. 17. Over the investigated temperature range (298–345 K) (Gogoi and Dutta 2016), it is clear that the maximal removal occur at higher temperature, i.e., the temperature-give up effect appear to be particularly pronounced. The removal of calcium ions by Go has been shown to be greatest at 340 K. We found that the high temperatures could not affect active sites and uptake of ions, also leading to the increase of uptake levels (Jiang et al. 2016).
Equilibrium isotherm
Equilibrium isotherm equations are used to describe experimental sorption data. The equation parameters and the underlying thermodynamic assumptions of these equilibrium models often provide some insight into both the sorption mechanism, the surface properties and affinity of the sorbent (Liu et al.; Acar et al. 2015). Langmuir isotherm can be characterized by a plateau graphically. The saturation point reaches an equilibrium where no further adsorption occurs. Adsorption is assumed to take place at specific homogeneous sites within the adsorbent (Xin et al. 2015). Once a sorbate molecule occupies a site, northern adsorption takes place at that site. A linearized form of Langmuir model is:
where, K L (dm3/g) is Langmuir constant termed as the apparent energy of adsorption and X m (mg/g) is sorption capacity.
freundlich empirical models contributed to non-ideal sorption on heterogeneous surfaces and multilayer sorption and is expressed by the following equation:
where, 1/n and k are Freundlich constants. The Freundlich isotherm parameter 1/n measures the absorption intensity of metal ions on prepared resins and Freundlich constant k is the adsorption capacity of prepared graphene sheets.
It demonstrates that the adsorption of Ca(II) onto oxidized graphene sheets is not a monolayer sort, one that does not completely inlet the surface of the oxidized graphene sheets. As seen from Table 2, Langmuir isotherm not fits well with the trial information. This may be because of the heterogeneous appropriation of dynamic destinations on the oxidized graphene sheets. Regarding the Freundlich model, the plots of log C e versus log C e at different temperatures were found to be directly sowing the tangibility of the Freundlich model. The catch of the line is pretty nearly a marker as far as possible, and the inclination indicates adsorption force. The Freundlich parameters and the results are addressed in Table 2. It is probably comprehended that the Langmuir isotherm contrasts with an overwhelming molecule exchange part while the Freundlich isotherm shows adsorption-complexion reactions happening in the adsorption process.
Conclusion
The accompanying conclusions can be taken into account the examination of calcium ions adsorption on the evacuated graphene oxidized sheets.
The modelling of kinetic curves has also been investigated. It is found that the best fit was achieved with the pseudo-second-order model mechanism. However, the data did not fit the pseudo-first-order model, which indicates the likelihood of a chemical adsorption mechanism.
Besides, the adsorption of calcium ions under varied temperature and contact time parameters. Temperature variation studies have shown an endothermic process and the percentage removal of both metal ions have increases with temperature.
Both Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms have been used to display the isothermal adsorption process of Ca(II) on oxidized graphene sheets. It is found that the Freundlich is the acceptable model for adsorption of specific calcium ions on oxidized graphene sheets, i.e., the un-uniform surface of graphene sheets having a heterogeneous active site on its surface.
Else, oxidized graphene sheets show an impression of being a good adsorbent for the calcium ions from the underground hard water. At these adsorption levels of graphene oxide sheets, a packed column method using oxidized graphene sheets for the removal of calcium ions is possibly more effective than current strategic advancement like Ro.
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Fathy, M., Abdel Moghny, T., Mousa, M.A. et al. Absorption of calcium ions on oxidized graphene sheets and study its dynamic behavior by kinetic and isothermal models. Appl Nanosci 6, 1105–1117 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13204-016-0537-8
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