ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Synthesizing and Characterizing Sawdust
Biochar/Fe3O4 Nanocomposites and its Potential
Application in Textile Wastewater Treatment
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College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Submission date: 2018-01-05
Final revision date: 2018-05-08
Acceptance date: 2018-05-15
Online publication date: 2019-01-18
Publication date: 2019-03-01
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Nadia Jamil
College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of the Punjab
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2019;28(4):2311-2319
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The present research deals with the synthesis and viability of Sawdust biochar/Fe3O4 nanocomposite
toward textile waste water treatment. The structure, functionality, and morphology of the nanocomposite
were determined by FT-IR, powder XRD, and SEM. Removal of the textile dye Reactive Blue 21 (RB21)
was almost 75% under optimum conditions. The value of Langmuir dimensionless separation factor
RL indicated a favorable adsorption (0 < R L < 1). Langmuir constant (KL, i.e., 0.15) symbolizes that there
is high affinity of the adsorbent for the adsorbate. The value of Freundlich constant was found to be
2.78 (n>1), hence denoting favorable sorption. The negative values for free energy indicated a spontaneous
reaction. Positive value for enthalpy suggested the endothermic nature of adsorption. The kinetic data
showed a pseudo first-order kinetic model. The calculated value of qt agreed with the experimental
value of qt at equilibrium. The results depicted that sawdust biochar/Fe3O4 nanocomposites are efficient
adsorbents for removing RB21 and has potential application in treatment of textile wastewater.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.