Abstract
The textile industries generate huge amounts of highly toxic color wastewater. A potential solution to this global environmental pollution demands the appropriate design and synthesis of artificial photocatalysts with high activities. The presence of methyl orange (MO) dye causes distinct acute impact on health therefore the removal of this dye from aqueous solution is highly desirable. The aim of this study was to assess the efficiency of photo-degradation of methyl orange dye with application of ZnAl layered double hydroxides (LDHs) as a photocatalyst. For this purpose, ZnAl LDHs were synthesized by simple and cost-effective coprecipitation method with varying Zn/Al molar ratios 2:1, 3:1 and 4:1. Samples were characterized by XRD, TG–DTA and UV–visible techniques to achieve information in aspects of phase transformation, thermal stability and their dye absorption capacity. Crystallinity and bandgap of catalyst play an important role in dye degradation mechanism & it is observed that the crystallinity of LDHs increases on calcination (at 600°C) and Zn/Al molar ratio. The investigation also reveals that an increase in Zn/Al molar ratio and calcination influences the dye degradation capacity of catalyst. It was found that the photocatalytic activity of calcined ZnAl LDHs depends on its intermediate products ZnO and ZnAl2O4 composites which can be regulated by changing Zn/Al molar ratio and heat treatment. The highest degradation of MO dye was found to be 95.21% within a time period of 1 h. Also, the reusability and stability of ZnAl photocatalyst were found to be steady up to 5 successive cycles.
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Introduction
A rapidly growing population followed by development of modern industry paved the way for environmental pollution through hazardous wastes leading to global health and environmental risk. The organic pollutants, dyes and pigments in water even at very low concentrations are highly toxic and they can produce some potential carcinogens, which will be harmful to humans and animals as well as the whole ecosystem. There is emerging public concern over the contamination of wastewater by dyes. Nowadays, there are more than 10,000 types of commercially used dyes. More seriously, about 1–20% of these dyes are lost during the dyeing process and they are released as textile effluents. Facing the ever-growing demand for eco-friendly wastewater management without affecting urbanization, research is recently devoted to the search of natural dyes from plants, animals and minerals which can be renewable having less impact on environmental resources [1]. Biological method alone cannot effectively degrade dyes from wastewater hence use of chemicals become essential. The methods used for dye removal are adsorption, encapsulation, degradation, etc.[2,3,4]. Among these potential solutions, photocatalysis has emerged as a fascinating technique because it is economic, non-toxic, safe and renewable. In the photocatalytic process, sunlight illumination can be utilized as an energy source. Selection of photocatalyst depends on the nature of dye and quantity of contamination. Synthetic textile dyes have complex aromatic molecular structures that make them difficult to biodegrade when discharged in the ecosystem. Owing to this, the design and synthesis of artificial photocatalysts with high activities have attracted great scientific interest worldwide.
Layered double hydroxide (LDH) is a widely used multifunctional material due to its physical & chemical properties, excellent stability as well as its non-toxicity, great accessibility and moderate cost. LDHs have been used as catalysts specially adsorbents in case of many aquatic pollutants as they are excellent ion exchangers. LDH fits in class of doped semiconductors and because of its interchangeable laminate elements, the semiconductor properties can be tailored by varying laminate cations and interlaminar anions [5]. Because of high anion retention capacity and simple thermal regeneration procedure LDHs materials are used as photocatalysts [6,7,8]. Electron–hole pairs are generated through the irradiation of light on catalyst surface which undergo oxidation or reduction of the pollutants in the solution [9]. [MII 1−xMIIIx(OH)2]x+[An−x/n ·y.H2O]x− where M(II) and M(III) are divalent and trivalent metal cations, respectively, and An− is an n-valent anion. Substitution of M2+ by M3+ leaves the positive charge which is then neutralized by intercalating anion and held by hydrogen bonding[10]. ZnAl-LDHs have been proved to have good capacity for wastewater treatment due to the outstanding synergism of adsorption and photocatalysis [11,12,13].
ZnO is one of the widely used photocatalysts for environmental pollution problems due to its high photosensitivity, non-toxic nature, low cost and chemical stability [14], some studies show higher activity of ZnO than TiO2 [15,16,17,18]. However, the principal limitation of using ZnO is a quick recombination of the photogenerated (e − /h +) pairs. Few researchers had tried to rectify this limitation by modifying the structure or doping of ZnO [19, 20]. Moreover, in few reports, it is found that the use of ZnO for the production of H2 is possible, but the results are not are very favorable due to the low yield of H2 [21,22,23,24,25]. On the other hand, the oxides obtained from the calcined LDH materials at different temperatures are highly active in the photodegradation of organic pollutants [6, 13, 16, 25]. In case of ZnAl LDH containing Zn as one of the metal cations, it is possible to obtain composite materials based on ZnO and ZnAl mixed oxides by only calcination. It is a cheap and simple alternative to the other routes such as ceramic, wet chemical synthesis or doping of ZnO with Al by magnetron sputtering, pulsed laser deposition (PLD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), chemical bath deposition (CBD) and spray pyrolysis (SP) [7, 19, 22].
The photocatalytic degradation efficiency of organic dyes depends on the phase structure of catalyst which in turn depends on the calcination temperature. Many studies found that the calcination of LDH material influences their photocatalytic activity due to the formation of mixed metal oxide and their composites [8,9,10, 26,27,28,29,30,31,32]. ZnAl LDH structures intercalated with carbonate ions and modified with Sn4 + cations have been studied for the photocatalytic degradation of organic compounds by Mendoza-Damián, G. et al.[33]. Also, the influence of different interlayer anions on the electron structure and surface chemical state of ZnAl–LDH structure through the experimental verification was investigated by Huo, Wangchen et al.[34].
Experimental
Materials
Zinc chloride (ZnCl2), aluminum chloride hexahydrate (AlCl3.6H2O), sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH) have been purchased from Merck-Germany & Sigma-Aldrich-USA. All the used chemicals were of analytical grade and were used without further purification.
Synthesis of ZnAl LDH nanoparticles
ZnAl LDHs nanoparticles were synthesized by a versatile and cost-effective co-precipitation method in which supersaturation of cation and anion leads to homogeneous nucleation followed by seed-assisted growth of nucleus. Three 60 ml solutions of ZnCl2 and AlCl3.6H2O at specific molar ratios 2:1(pH 3), 3:1(pH 2) and 4:1(pH 1) were prepared and basic solution NaOH containing Na2CO3 was added to it until the pH of solution become 5. During this process, the solution was continuously stirred at 1300 rpm for homogeneous mixing. The solution was transferred to Teflon lined stainless steel autoclave for heat treatment at 70 °C for 7 h. Resulting suspension was centrifuged and then dried at room temperature (≈27 °C), thus ZnAl LDH powder samples were obtained and were labeled as Z2A, Z3A and Z4A for Zn:Al ratio as 2:1(pH 3), 3:1(pH 2) and 4:1(pH 1), respectively. To avoid contamination of the sample due to formation of CO3−2 all reagents were stored in N2 filled glove box and the synthesis was also carried out in the same glove box. Samples were calcinated at optimized temperature 600 °C. These calcinated samples were labeled as Z2AC, Z3AC and Z4AC for 2:1, 3:1 and 4:1 Zn:Al ratio, respectively.
Photocatalytic activity evaluation
The degradation of methyl orange (MO) dye using ZnAl LDH catalyst was investigated by monitoring degradation efficiency for fixed time intervals. A handmade photo reactor containing a single incandescent lamp (40 W/230 V Philips Intensity approx. 24,000 lx) was used as the simulated sunlight source which was kept at 12 cm from the base of the round bottom flask containing mixture of dye and catalyst with continuous stirring on a magnetic stirrer. To maintain constant temperature (28 °C) of the reaction system running water was circulated through the jacket. For photocatalytic degradation 0.03 gm of synthesized ZnAl LDH catalyst was added to 100 ml aqueous solution of MO dye with 10 ppm concentration. This mixture was stirred continuously for 1 h in dark to achieve its adsorption–desorption equilibrium. Then 5 ml of aliquot was collected and centrifuged to separate catalyst particles and the supernatant solution was used for UV analysis. In the next step, 5 ml aliquot was collected after each 15 min of irradiation and used for UV analysis. The percentage degradation efficiency (DE %) was calculated using Eq. (1).
where C0 is the initial concentration of dye solution and Ct is the dye concentration at reaction time t.
Optimization of catalyst concentration for dye degradation
From the obtained results, it was found that the degradation of MO dye increased with the increase in the concentration of catalyst. This could be due to the generation of hydroxyl radicals. The generation of hydroxyl radicals increases with an increase in catalyst dosage. About 95.21% of MO dye was decolorized with the loading of 0.3 g L− 1 of catalyst over 60 min irradiation. On increasing the catalyst dosage, the total active surface area escalates, that eventually tends to availability of additional active sites. The other reason could be, on increasing the catalyst dosage, the collision frequency between the catalyst and dye increases. Concurrently the increase in catalyst dosage may lead to an increase in turbidity. At higher turbidity, the passage of UV light into the solution diminishes and ultimately decreases the photoactivity.
Characterizations
The crystalline structure of ZnAl LDH was recorded by X-Ray diffractometer with CuKα radiation (k = 0.154059 nm) at a scan rate of 2°/min to determine the crystallite size. The diffraction pattern was recorded with a step size of 0.03. The effect of calcination on the percent weight loss was analyzed using thermogravimetric analysis (TG–DTA-7200 Hitachi). Particle size determination and lattice fringe observation were performed using high-resolution transmission electron microscope (HR-TEM,300 kV). A double beam UV–Vis–NIR spectrophotometer (JASCO V-670) was used to study the absorption spectra of the samples.
Results and discussion
X-ray diffraction (XRD) study
Figure 1a & b illustrate the XRD pattern of ZnAl LDHs with different Zn/Al cationic ratio and their calcined products, respectively. Characteristic reflections have been observed corresponding to (003), (006), (012), (015), (018) diffraction planes. The sharpness and symmetry of these reflections indicate a high crystalline LDH phase. Considering the hexagonal packing, the lattice parameters a and c were calculated using (003) and (110) reflecting planes. Parameter a represents the average metal–metal distance in the interlayer structure which was calculated from the position of (110) plane. Parameter c corresponds to three times the interlayer distance which was determined from the position of (003) reflection. These lattice parameters were found to be a = b = 0.37 nm & c = 2.46 nm. After calcination, the lamellar structure collapse and the new peaks corresponding to ZnO oxide and ZnAl2O4 spinel phases were observed as shown in Fig. 1b [42]. Characteristic reflections of the composite ZnO/ ZnAl2O4 appear at 600 °C. By increasing Zn/Al molar ratio amount of ZnO/ ZnAl2O4 composite also increases. Scherrer’s formula [Eq. (2)] was used to calculate the crystallite size and it was found to be 27.2 nm for Z4AC, 24.6 nm for Z3AC and for Z2AC it reduces to 19 nm. Scherrer’s formula is expressed as.
where k is shape factor (0.9), λ is the X-ray wavelength (Cu/Kα = 0.154 nm), β is the full width at half-maximum of the diffraction peak and θ is the angle of diffraction. From Fig. 1b the diffraction peaks at 31.59°, 34.18°, 36.12°, 47.44°, 56.50°, 62.65° and 68.07° reflect the structure of ZnO and the diffraction peaks at higher 2° values 44.69°, 59.09°, 65.07° and 77.04° corresponds to ZnAl2O4. The presence of zinc aluminate diffraction peaks and the slightly shifted peaks of ZnO represent the incorporation of zinc aluminate into ZnO resulting in the formation of ZnAl2O4/ZnO nanocomposite due to calcination of ZnAl LDH.
TEM analysis
To investigate the morphology and particle size distribution of prepared sample, TEM analysis was performed. TEM image Fig. 2a demonstrates that the particles are spherical with agglomeration. From the particle size distribution graph shown in Fig. 2b, the average particle size of Z4AC was found to be 44.28 nm. From the inset of Fig. 2c, SAED (Selected area electron diffraction) pattern of Z4AC exhibits three uniform rings with bright spots which reveal nanocrystalline nature of Z4AC. The diffraction rings of the sample are indexed to (400) and (101) planes corresponding to ZnAl2O4 and ZnO, respectively, which confirms the formation of ZnAl2O4/ZnO nanocomposite. Figure 2d shows the lattice fringe spacing of 0.25 nm corresponding to (110) plane of the ZnO crystallites.
TGA-DTA analysis
Figure 3 shows the TG–DTA curve of ZnAl LDH nanoparticles. The mass loss in temperature range 40–180 °C is attributed to water loss from inter- and intra-gallery of LDH structure and also from some externally absorbed water. Decomposition and elimination of organic moiety and removal of OH from hydroxide layer also cause mass loss. Second stage of mass loss at higher temperatures between 200 °C and 500 °C is due to the dehydroxylation of the brucite-like sheets as well as the decomposition of the carbonate anions. The mass loss above 500 °C corresponds to dehydration and dehydroxylation of AlOOH. [41]. At 600 °C and above the weight loss was not so significant and the formation of spinel phase initiates.
UV–Visible spectroscopy
Generation and migration of photoexcited electron–hole pairs tailor the probability of their presence at reaction sites on the photocatalyst surface. Hence the optical absorption is the key factor in the regulation of photocatalytic reaction mechanism. The optical energy bandgap was calculated by using standard Eq. (3).
where α, ѵ, k and Eg are the absorption coefficient, light frequency, the proportionality constant and the bandgap, respectively. Characteristic transition represented by ‘n’ is 1or 3 for direct transition and 4 or 6 for an indirect transition.
The effect of phase transformations after calcination of ZnAl LDHs on their capability to absorb visible light was examined. As shown in Fig 4a & b calcined Z4AC catalyst shows absorption in visible region and uncalcined Z4A catalyst shows absorption at the edge of visible region, indicating that the bandgap of catalyst decreases after calcination. Thus the calcined catalyst showed significant absorption in visible region and decreased bandgap value due to formation of ZnO/ ZnAl2O4 nanocomposite during calcination. A possible mechanism for the degradation of methyl orange is supposed that ZnAl2O4 and ZnO in ZnO/ ZnAl2O4 catalyst are coupled together and their conduction band (CB) and valence band (VB) levels are showing a good match. The energy gap between corresponding band levels drives the e− and h+ pairs from one particle to its neighbors to form a spatial separation. Such process is energetically favorable for photogenerated e − and h + pairs. The resulting O2 − and OH − ions get oxidized by photogenerated holes (h +) to generate the free radicals ·O2 − and OH· which are responsible for the degradation of methyl orange. This can be visualized with Fig. 5.
Photocatalytic study
The performance of calcined and uncalcined ZnAl LDHs as photocatalyst can be evaluated from the degradation of MO dye under visible light irradiation. For experiment, 10 ppm aqueous solution of MO dye was prepared in 100 ml double distilled water. This solution was stirred in dark for an hour to reach its adsorption–desorption equilibrium and then irradiated with visible light for 15 min. 5 ml of resultant solution was pipette out and centrifuged to study its optical absorption after every 15 min interval. The change in MO dye adsorption was monitored with the help of UV–Vis spectra. It was observed that adsorption increases with the increase in Zn/Al molar ratio. This may be due to the increased crystallinity of ZnO phase with an increased Zn/Al molar ratio. Also, in case of Z4A sample, there was the formation of ZnO phase due to increase in Zn content. Also, the effect of calcined catalyst on degradation shows desired results. Figure 6a & b show the change in degradation efficiency of MO dye with duration of irradiation from which it is clear that all the calcined catalysts samples achieved higher degradation rate than uncalcined catalysts. Calcination process caused the coupling of ZnO and ZnAl2O4 nanocomposites which ensures the effective separation of photogenerated electron–hole pairs, which is an important factor to enhance photocatalytic performance of a single-phase material. Reaction conditions as shown in Fig. 6c demonstrate the kinetics of MO dye degradation. It evaluates the photocatalytic degradation of dyes as a function of irradiation time. LDHs role in dye degradation can be explained on the basis of Langmuir–Hinshelwood Model [42,43,44] which is expressed by Eq. (4).
where r is dye degradation rate, K refers to the adsorption equilibrium constant, Kr is the reaction rate constant, Kaap is the apparent rate constant and C is dye concentration in solution. At initial condition of photocatalytic degradation (t = 0, C = Co) this equation becomes first-order kinetic equation when C is very less, then Eq. (4) becomes
where C0 initial dye concentration, C is dye concentration at time t and Kaap is the apparent rate constant, respectively. The rate constant Kaap = 5 E−2 min−1 calculated by using Eq. (5) is the gradient of graph ln (C/Co) versus irradiation time as shown in Fig. 6c. From the investigation and results shown in Fig. 6a & b, sample Z4A shows maximum adsorption–desorption equilibrium in 60 min with 89.74% dye degradation, where Z4AC degrades 95.21% dye in 60 min. Thus we can conclude that calcined LDHs have higher degradation efficiency than uncalcined LDHs. The absorption spectra of MO dye solution in presence of Z4AC catalyst are shown in Fig. 6d. On the other hand, a comparative study of the effect of changing molar ratio of Zn/Al in LDH on its photocatalytic performance leads to the conclusion that the increasing Zn/Al molar ratio in LDH also increases its photocatalytic performance. This is due to increased crystallinity and increasedZnO/ ZnAl2O4 nanocomposites.
When ZnAl LDH/MO aqueous solution irradiates with photon energy greater than the bandgap of ZnAl LDHs nanoparticles, it produces electron–hole pair in LDH as expressed in Eqs. (6 & 7). Superoxide O2-· anion radicals are generated by the combination of an electron from the conduction band with dissolved oxygen from environment (Eq. (8)). These superoxides further react with dye to produce dye products (Eq. (13)). Electron further reacts with dissolved oxygen and proton to form hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) which reacts with photoelectron (Eq. (9)) leading to the generation of hydroxyl radicals (OH·) Eq. (10)). Similarly, holes from the VB oxidize the H2O molecule to hydroxyl radicals (OH·) as given in Eq. (11). These OH· radicals are strongly oxidizing which degrade the MO dye (Eq. (12)).
To understand the dye degradation mechanism and radicals involved, trapping experiment was carried out by using scavengers like benzoquinone(BQ) for O2−·, isopropanol(IPA) for OH• and sodium oxalate for h+. As perceived in Fig. 7a, photodegradation of IC dye was considerably suppressed by using BQ in which degradation efficiency decreased from 95.21% to 28.49%, and by addition of IPA, it reduced to 63.15%. While the addition of sodium oxalate slightly promotes(95.53%) the degradation efficiency as it acts as electron donor that reacts with holes at catalyst surface, which in turn inhibits the recombination rate of photogenerated electron–hole pairs. From the overall trapping experiment, it was clear that O2−· and OH· radicals are responsible for MO dye degradation.
The reusability of Z4AC LDH catalyst was investigated by using same experimental conditions for repeated cycles. The catalyst was separated after each cycle and washed several times with distilled water and dried at 60° overnight to reuse for photocatalytic degradation of MO dye. Figure 7b reveals that Z4AC is a recyclable and highly stable catalyst for MO dye degradation upto five successive cycles. After 16 cycles catalyst totally lost its degradation efficiency (Table 1).
Conclusion
ZnAl LDHs with several Zn/Al molar ratios 2:1, 3:1 and 4:1, as photocatalyst were synthesized by co-precipitation method. We investigated the LDHs phases based on zinc and aluminum metals and interspersed by carbonate ions represented as Zn-Al-CO3. The effect of calcination of LDHs on degradation efficiency for MO dye has been investigated. While experimentation we optimized the calcination temperature to 600 °C and observed that during the calcination, the material transform into mixed metal oxides (ZnO- ZnAl2O4). ZnAl LDHs calcined at 600 °C and for Zn/Al molar ratio 4:1(Z4AC) showed the best removal rate of MO dye about 95.21% within a time period of 1 h. All LDHs samples before and after calcination were characterized by several physicochemical techniques such as XRD, TEM, UV–Vis, PL, etc. The study revealed that crystallinity and bandgap play an important role in dye degradation capacity of catalyst. Also the reusability and stability of Z4AC photocatalyst were found to be steady up to 5 successive cycles. Thus this synthetic anionic clay in the form of photocatalyst presents a remarkable performance to be used as an efficient adsorbent for the removal of hazardous MO dye from an aqueous solution/wastewater.
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Thite, V.D., Giripunje, S.M. Adsorption and photocatalytic performance of ZnAl layered double hydroxide nanoparticles in removal of methyl orange dye. Nanotechnol. Environ. Eng. 7, 57–66 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41204-021-00186-1
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