Abstract
Chitosan (CS) was coalesced with activated charcoal (AC), followed by crosslinking reaction with epichlorohydrin (ECH) to form a mesoporous crosslinked chitosan–epichlorohydrin/activated charcoal composite (CS-ECH/AC). The structural and physicochemical properties of CS-ECH/AC were characterized by Brunauer–Emmett–Teller, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and point-of-zero charge (pHPZC) analyses. CS-ECH/AC was used to remove thionine (TH), a model cationic dye, from aqueous solution. Batch mode adsorption studies were performed by varying operational adsorption parameters, such as adsorbent dosage (0.04–0.30 g), solution pH (3–11), initial TH dye concentrations (10–100 mg/L), and contact time (0–270 min). The equilibrium data was described well by the Freundlich isotherm, and the maximum adsorption capacity of CS-ECH/AC for TH dye adsorption was 60.9 mg/g at 303 K. The kinetic uptake profiles were well described by the pseudo-second-order model. Thermodynamics results indicated a spontaneous and exothermic adsorption process. The proposed adsorption mechanism included mostly electrostatic attractions, H-bonding interactions, and π–π interactions. All these results showed that CS-ECH/AC can be considered as a feasible biocomposite material for the removal of cationic dyes from wastewater.
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Introduction
The use of organic dyes as coloring agents has become extensive, particularly in the textile, printing, leather, paint, food, and cosmetics industries [1]. The discharge of these dyes into water bodies without treatment is one of the most important environmental problems because of its risks on environmental safety and human health [2]. Therefore, these dyes should be removed before being discharged into the environment. Various techniques have been applied to treat dye-containing water and wastewater, such as adsorption [3, 4], electrochemical oxidation [5], biological treatment [6], and coagulation [7]. Among these treatment techniques, adsorption is one of the most efficient methods that is used for the removal of pollutants due to its advantages such as high efficiency, low cost, simplicity of design, and nongeneration of toxic materials [8,9,10,11].
Chitosan (CS) is the most-used biological molecule in the adsorption of several water pollutants because of its many preferable properties such as biodegradability, biocompatibility, and adsorption ability [12, 13]. The adsorption ability of CS can be attributed to the presence of reactive functional groups of amino (–NH2) and hydroxyl (–OH) in its molecular structure [14]. These groups are considered active adsorption sites in wastewater treatment technologies to remove different pollutants, such as dyes and metals, through various mechanisms, including electrostatic attractions, H interactions, and chemical interactions [15,16,17,18,19]. However, the application of CS as an adsorbent in wastewater treatment technologies is still limited by its high solubility in acidic environment, leachability, poor mechanical properties, and swelling in aqueous medium [20]. A highly effective pathway to overcoming these limitations and enhancing the physiochemical properties of the CS biopolymer is chemical modification by crosslinking reaction and/or composting with activated charcoal (AC) [21,22,23,24].
Generally, crosslinking reaction is a convenient method to improve the chemical stability of CS in acidic media and reduce its hydrophobicity [25]. Composting CS with AC is another distinguished method that can be applied to improve the surface property, porosity, and adsorptive property of the CS biopolymer [23]. AC is a porous material composed of C that is arranged in a quasi-graphitic form [26]. AC exhibits many preferable properties when it is used as an adsorbent, such as large surface area and fine network of pores [27]. At present, composite CS-AC derivatives exhibit multifunctional performances for unlimited promising applications, such as dye removal [28], metal ion removal [29], antibiotics [30], H storage [31], CO2 capture [32], antibacterial activity [33], and catalyst [34].
Thus, the objective of this study is to develop hybrid crosslinked CS epichlorohydrin/AC composite (CS-ECH/AC) by coalescing CS-ECH with AC to form a promising composite biosorbent as a suitable candidate for the removal of cationic dyes, such as thionine (TH) dye, from an aqueous environment. The adsorption key parameters, such as adsorbent dosage, solution pH, TH dye concentration, and contact time on adsorption of TH were optimized. The adsorption isotherm and kinetics were also determined. Thermodynamic functions, such as Gibb’s free energy (ΔG°), enthalpy (ΔH°), and entropy (ΔS°) were also investigated. The adsorption mechanism of TH dye on the CS-ECH/AC surface was also discussed.
Materials and Methods
Materials
CS with a medium molecular weight, deacetylation degree of 68%, and ≥ 98% (w/v) aqueous solution epichlorohydrin (ECH) were obtained from Sigma–Aldrich. AC powder was purchased from Fluka. TH dye (C12H10ClN3S, MW: 263.75 g/mol, λmax = 569 nm), HCl, NaOH, and acetic acid were purchased from R&M Chemicals. All the experiments in this research were performed using ultrapure water.
CS-ECH/AC Preparation
A total of 1.5 g CS flakes and 0.5 g AC powder were added in acetic acid (50 mL, 5% v/v). The solution was left for 24 h at room temperature with gentle stirring to ensure CS dissolution and mix AC powder. The resultant solution was injected into a beaker containing 1000 mL of NaOH (0.5 M) by syringe needle (10 mL) as drops, where the CS-AC beads formed instantaneously. The fresh beads of CS-AC were washed with distilled water for the removal of the trace amounts of NaOH solution. The crosslinking step was carried out by adding 90 mL of 1% ECH to the CS-AC beads on a thermostat water bath shaker at 40 °C for 2 h. Then, the CS-ECH/AC beads were washed with distilled water and air dried overnight. Afterwards, the CS-ECH/AC beads were converted to powder form by mortar and dried constantly in an oven. Finally, the CS-ECH/AC powder was sieved to the constant particle size of ≤ 250 μm before being used in the adsorption experiments. The proposed CS-ECH/AC is presented in Fig. 1.
CS-ECH/AC Characterization
The CS-ECH/AC was characterized by various analytical methods and techniques. The surface area and pore structure of the CS-ECH/AC were calculated by N2 adsorption/desorption isotherms at 77 K using the Micromeritics ASAP 2020 analyzer. The crystalline nature of CS-ECH/AC was analyzed by X-Ray diffraction (XRD; model X’Pert PRO, PAnalytical). Scanning electron microscope (SEM; Zeiss Supra 40 VP, Germany) was used to investigate the surface morphology of CS-ECH/AC before and after TH adsorption. The pH of CS-ECH/AC at the point of zero charge (pHpzc) was calculated according to the published method [35]. Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer (Perkin-Elmer, Spectrum RX I) was used to identify the functional groups of CS-ECH/AC before and after TH adsorption.
Batch Adsorption Experiments
The adsorption of the TH dye on CS-ECH/AC was investigated in a batch mode. The experiments were carried out in a series of Erlenmeyer flasks (250 mL) containing 100 mL of TH dye solution with different initial TH dye concentrations (10–100 mg/L). The different dosages of CS-ECH/AC (0.04 to 0.3 g) were added to 100 mL of TH dye solution with different levels of solution pH (3–11), and agitated at fixed shaking speed of 110 strokes/min at 303 K using an isothermal water bath shaker (model WNB7-45, Memmert, Germany). Afterwards, syringe filtering (0.20 µm) was used to separate the adsorbents, and the initial and final TH dye concentrations were measured by using a UV–vis spectrophotometer (HACH DR 2800) at the maximum wavelength of 569 nm. Equilibrium isotherms were performed at optimum conditions (temperature = 303 K, adsorbent dosage = 0.18 g/100 mL, and solution pH 10) using initial TH concentrations ranging from 10 mg/L to 100 mg/L. The TH dye removal (DR%) and adsorbed amount of TH dye at equilibrium, that is, qe (mg/g), were determined using Eqs. 1 and 2, respectively, as follows:
where Co (mg/L) is the initial TH dye concentration, Ce (mg/L) is the TH dye concentration at equilibrium, V is the volume of the dye solution (L), and W is the amount of CS-ECH/AC (g).
Results and Discussion
Characterization
Physicochemical Properties of CS-ECH/AC
The pore structure and specific surface area of CS-ECH/AC were determined by N2 adsorption/desorption isotherms, as depicted in Fig. 2. As shown in the figure, the N2 physisorption isotherm was type IV according to the IUPAC classification. This result indicated the presence of mesopores in the CS-ECH/AC structure. The textural properties of the synthesized CS-ECH/AC are presented in Table 1. According to Table 1, the mean pore diameter of CS-ECH/AC was 3.69 nm, thereby indicating that the CS-ECH/AC is a mesoporous material [36]. The results also showed that the surface area of CS-ECH/AS was 49.3 m2/g. This relatively high surface area of CS-ECH/AS can be attributed to the loading of AC into the polymeric matrix of CS-ECH, and the mesoporous structure of CS-ECH/AC would be responsible for the enhancement of the adsorption of TH molecules on the CS-ECH/AC surface because of the high diffusion of TH molecules through the mesoporous structure of the adsorbent [37].
XRD Analysis
XRD analysis was carried out to determine the crystalline and/or amorphous nature of CS-ECH/AC, as shown in Fig. 3a. As shown in the figure, the sharp and broad diffraction peaks at 2θ = 24° (002) and 2θ = 42° (100) were recorded. This result can be attributed to the typical crystalline regions of CS-ECH/AC, which are established through intramolecular and intermolecular H-bonding interactions [38, 39].
FTIR Spectral Analysis
FTIR analysis was performed to determine the functional groups on CS-ECH/AC surface before and after TH adsorption. Figure 3b shows the FTIR spectra of CS-ECH/AC and CS-ECH/AC after TH dye adsorption. The CS-ECH/AC spectrum showed that distinguished characteristic peaks can be assigned as follows: 3400 (stretching vibrations of –NH and –OH bonds), 2870 (stretching vibrations of C–H in –CH and –CH2), 1700 (vibrations of C= O bond in RCOOH or RCOOR), 1650 (bending vibration of N–H), 1500 (vibrations of C= C bond in aromatic rings), 1380 (stretching vibration of C–N), and 1090 cm−1 (skeletal vibration of C–O) [30, 32]. These peaks showed that the AC was successfully grafted with the chains of CS-ECH and confirmed the chemical interactions, including esterification and H bonding between functional groups of the CS and O groups of AC [29], as shown in Fig. 3. The FTIR spectrum of CS-ECH/AC after TH adsorption showed evident shift in several peaks to high wavenumbers, thereby indicating the interactions between functional groups of the CS-ECH/AC and TH dye molecules that are loaded on the CS-ECH/AC surface.
SEM Analysis
SEM analysis was performed to investigate the surface morphology of CS-ECH/AC before and after the adsorption of the TH molecules. Figure 4a and 4b shows the SEM images of CS-ECH/AC and CS-ECH/AC after TH adsorption, respectively. Figure 4a shows that the surface morphology of CS-ECH/AC was a rough and heterogonous surface with evident cavities and irregular pore size. The presence of these pores within the CS-ECH/AC structure can play an essential role in the adsorption process of the TH molecules. The CS-ECH/AC surface after TH dye absorption (Fig. 4b) was less porous and compact with the disappearance of cavities on the CS-ECH/AC surface, thereby indicating that the TH molecules were successfully loaded on the CS-ECH/AC surface.
Adsorption Study
Effect of CS-ECH/AC Dosage
The effect of CS-ECH/AC dosage on TH dye removal by CS-ECH/AC was investigated by varying the adsorbent dosage from 0.04 to 0.3 g and fixing the volume, initial TH concentration, temperature, contact time, and shaking speed at 100 mL, 50 mg/L, 303 K, 600 min, and 110 strokes/min, respectively, as shown in Fig. 5a. The percentage of TH removal increased from 37.7% to 92.9% with increased CS-ECH/AC dosage from 0.04 to 0.18 g/100 mL (0.02 g to 0.2 g). This increase in TH removal with increased CS-ECH/AC dosage may be due the increase in available surface area of CS-ECH/AC in TH solution. A high adsorbent dosage also had a large number of active adsorption sites available for TH molecule adsorption. Further increase in CS-ECH/AC dosage did not result in any remarkable change in the TH dye removal. Therefore, 0.18 g/100 mL was selected as the optimum CS-ECH/AC dosage for further experiments.
Effect of Solution pH
The effect of initial pH on the adsorption capacity (\({q}_{t}\)) of TH onto CS-ECH/AC was examined at different levels (pH 3–11) by fixing other parameters (adsorbent dosage of 0.18 g/100 mL, TH dye concentration of 50 mg/L, and temperature of 303 K), as shown in Fig. 5b. However, as illustrated in Fig. 5b, TH uptake (qe) onto CS-ECH/AC was not considerably affected by pH within the range of 6–11 because of the buffering effect of the adsorbent, and a slight decrease in \({q}_{t}\) can be observed in an acidic environment. The recorded pHpzc of CS-ECH/AC was 7, as shown in Fig. 5c. The CS-ECH/AC surface would be negatively charged at a basic pH environment of 7 or above. Thus, a strong electrostatic attraction can occur between the positively charged groups of TH and negatively charged groups on the CS-ECH/AC surface. Therefore, pH 7 was selected as the optimum pH for further experiments.
Effect of Temperature
The temperature is a fundamental adsorption parameter that plays an important role in the adsorption process. The effect of temperature (303, 313, and 323 K) on the \({q}_{t}\) of TH dye by CS-ECH/AC was investigated at initial RR120 concentration (50 mg/L), solution pH (10), and adsorbent dosage (0.18 g/100 mL), as shown in Fig. 5d. The results showed that the changes in temperature were not significant on the adsorption of TH dye by CS-ECH/AC. However, a slight decrease in the \({q}_{t}\) was observed by increasing the temperature up to 323 K that can be attributed to the exothermic nature of the adsorption process [40].
Effects of Initial TH Concentration and Contact Time
The effects of initial TH concentration and contact time on adsorption equilibrium were investigated. The \({q}_{t} \left(\mathrm{m}\mathrm{g}/\mathrm{g}\right)\) against time at different initial TH dye concentrations of 10, 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100 mg/L is shown in Fig. 6. Other optimum key parameters, such as adsorbent dose = 0.18 g, solution pH 7, and temperature = 303 K, remained constant within this part of the study. Figure 6 shows that the quantity of the TH dye molecule uptake onto CS-ECH/AC surface increased from 5.74 to 45.6 mg/g with an increase in the initial TH dye concentrations from 10 to 100 mg/L. This result can be attributed to the high concentration gradient, which provided a driving force to move the TH dye molecules toward active adsorption sites [41].
Kinetic Modeling
To identify the mechanism of the TH dye adsorption onto CS-ECH/AC, we applied the kinetic models of the pseudo-first-order (PFO) and -second-order (PSO) were applied to examine the experimental results of different initial TH dye concentrations. The nonlinear forms of the PFO [42] and PSO [43] models are expressed by Eqs. 3 and 4, respectively, as follows:
where qe (mg/g) is the amount of TH adsorbed by CS-ECH/AC at equilibrium; qt (mg/g) is the amount of TH adsorbed by CS-ECH/AC at time (t); and k1 (1/min) and k2 (g/mg min) are the rate constants of PFO and PSO, respectively. The kinetic parameters of the PFO and PSO models are presented in Table 2. The results (Table 2) showed that the adsorption process of the TH by the CS-ECH/AC fits PSO model because of the high correlation coefficient (R2) values. The calculated qe values from PSO model was close to experimental results of qe, thereby suggesting that the adsorption of TH dye on the CS-ECH/AC surface involved chemical interactions, such as electrostatic attraction between the positive charge of TH dye and negative charge available on the CS-ECH/AC surface [44].
Isotherm Modelling
Adsorption isotherms are important tools to describe the interactions between the adsorbate and CS-ECH/AC adsorbent [45, 46]. The three isotherm models of Langmuir, Freundlich, and Temkin were applied to investigate the equilibrium isotherms of adsorption and calculating the qmax. The Langmuir model [47] is presented by Eq. 5:
where qe (mg/g), qmax (mg/g), Ce (mg/L), and Ka (L/mg) are uptake amount of dye at equilibrium, dye concentration at equilibrium, Langmuir maximum adsorption capacity, and Langmuir constant, respectively. The Freundlich model [48] is provided by Eq. 6, as follows:
where Kf ([mg/g] [L/mg]1/n) and n are Freundlich constant and adsorption intensity, respectively. The Temkin isotherm model [49] is expressed by Eq. 7:
where KT (L/mg), R (8.314 J/mol K), T (K), and bT (J/mol) are Temkin constant, universal gas constant, absolute temperature, and heat of adsorption, respectively.
The nonlinear plots of the studied isotherm models resulting from Eqs. 5–7 are displayed in Fig. 7. The isotherm parameters of the models are presented in Table 3. According to the R2 values (Table 3) obtained from the isotherm models, the Freundlich isotherm had highest R2 of 0.99, which suggested the multilayer adsorption of TH dye adsorption onto the CS-ECH/AC [50]. The qmax of CS-ECH/AC for TH was 60.9 mg/g. The \({q}_{t}\) of CS-ECH/AC for TH dye was compared with other adsorbents used for the removal of various cationic dyes, as presented in Table 4. As shown in the table, the reasonable \({q}_{t}\) of CS-ECH/AC indicated a potential application of CS-ECH/AC adsorbent as a promising renewable adsorbent for cationic dye removal from an aqueous environment .
Adsorption Thermodynamics
Thermodynamic study was performed to investigate the spontaneity and feasibility of the adsorption process and freedom degree of the adsorbed TH dye at the solid/solution interface. The adsorption thermodynamic functions of the adsorbed TH dye by CS- ECH/AC, such as ΔG°, ΔH°, and ΔS°, were calculated by Eqs. 8–10 [61]:
The ΔH° and ΔS° values were calculated from the slope and intercept of the Van’t Hoff plot of ln kd versus 1/T, as shown Fig. 8. The thermodynamic functions are presented in Table 5. The results showed a negative value of the ΔG° and a negative value of the ΔH°, thereby indicating that the adsorption process was spontaneous and exothermic in nature, respectively [34]. The randomness at the solid–solution interface is expected to increase because of the positive ΔS°.
Adsorption Mechanism
The adsorption mechanism of TH onto CS-ECH/AC surface can be attributed to different types of interactions, as shown in Fig. 9. The mechanism involved the electrostatic interaction between positively charged groups of the TH dye with negatively charged groups available on the CS-ECH/AC surface. Adsorption mechanism also included H-bonding interactions between H in the CS-ECH/AC surface and N atoms in the TH dye structure. Finally, π–π interaction can occur between the hexagonal skeleton of AC and aromatic rings of TH. According to the possibilities mentioned above, these interactions were responsible for enhancing the adsorption process of TH on the CS-ECH/AC surface. Similar observations were reported by other researchers for the adsorption of cationic dyes by magnetic CS/AC composite [62] and CS crosslinked graphene oxide/lignosulfonate composite [1].
Conclusion
Mesoporous crosslinked CS-ECH/AC composite was successfully synthesized and applied as an effective adsorbent to remove TH dye (cationic dye) from aqueous solution. The optimum adsorption conditions were the adsorbent dosage of 0.18 g/100 mL, solution pH of 7, and temperature of 303 K. The maximum \({q}_{t}\) of CS-ECH/AC obtained from Langmuir model was 60.9 mg/g. Thermodynamics results indicated that the adsorption process was spontaneous and exothermic in nature. The adsorption mechanism of the TH dye on CS-ECH/AC surface can be assigned to various types of interactions, such as electrostatic attraction, H-bonding interaction, and π–π interaction. The adsorption results indicated that CS-ECH/AC can be considered as a feasible and promising biocomposite adsorbent for the removal of cationic dyes from an aqueous environment.
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The authors would like to thank the Universiti Teknologi MARA, Institute of Research Management and Innovation (Institut Pengurusan Penyelidikan & Inovasi) for supporting this project under LESTARI grant (600-IRMI 5/3/LESTARI (037/2019)).
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Jawad, A.H., Abdulhameed, A.S. & Mastuli, M.S. Mesoporous Crosslinked Chitosan-Activated Charcoal Composite for the Removal of Thionine Cationic Dye: Comprehensive Adsorption and Mechanism Study. J Polym Environ 28, 1095–1105 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10924-020-01671-5
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