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Synthesis and characterization of solid-state Fe-exchanged nano-bentonite and evaluation of methyl orange adsorption

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A new adsorbent was synthesized using ion-exchange between iron salts and bentonite modified with acetyl trimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) in the solid phase. Ion-exchange was performed in the solid state at a temperature of 100 °C for 2 min. Various analyses such as X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), porosity measurement (BET), infrared Fourier transform (FT-IR), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray energy diffraction (EDX), and thermal weighing (TGA) were used to characterize the synthesized nano-adsorbents. Under optimal conditions (pH = 7, time 60 min, concentration of dye solution 150 ppm, and amount of nano-adsorbent 0.75 g/l), the modified nano-adsorbent absorbed 73% of the methyl orange (MO) dye. Adsorption isotherm studies and kinetic model showed that the pseudo-second-order model and Langmuir equation agree with the obtained results. After three reductions of the modified nano-adsorbent in the photo-Fenton process, the dye absorption percentage was 69.50%.

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    Nahid Hajipour, Mohammad Ghorbanpour & Majid Safajou-jahankhanemlou

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Hajipour, N., Ghorbanpour, M. & Safajou-jahankhanemlou, M. Synthesis and characterization of solid-state Fe-exchanged nano-bentonite and evaluation of methyl orange adsorption. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 49898–49907 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-19326-4

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