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Removal of 4-nitro-phenol from wastewater using synthetic zeolite and kaolin clay

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Adsorption techniques are widely used to remove certain classes of pollutants from wastewater. Phenolic compounds represent one of the problematic groups. Na-Y zeolite has been synthesized from locally available Iraqi kaolin clay. Characterization of the prepared zeolite was made by XRD and surface area measurement using N2 adsorption. Both synthetic Na-Y zeolite and kaolin clay have been tested for adsorption of 4-Nitro-phenol in batch mode experiments. Maximum removal efficiencies of 90% and 80% were obtained using the prepared zeolite and kaolin clay, respectively. Kinetics and equilibrium adsorption isotherms were investigated. Investigations showed that both Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms fit the experimental data quite well. On the other hand, the adsorption of phenol was found to obey first-order kinetics.

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    Nada Sadoon Ahmedzeki, Haider Abdulkarem Rashid, Asir Abduljabbar Alnaama, Maha Hadi Alhasani & Zainab Abdulhussain

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Ahmedzeki, N.S., Rashid, H.A., Alnaama, A.A. et al. Removal of 4-nitro-phenol from wastewater using synthetic zeolite and kaolin clay. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 30, 2213–2218 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-013-0165-x

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