Effective Adsorptive Removal of Methylene Blue from Water by Didodecyldimethylammonium Bromide-Modified Brown Clay.

ABSTRACT: In the present investigation, brown clay (BC) was modified with didodecyldimethylammonium bromide (DDAB) to produce a sorbent (DDAB-BC), which was characterized and applied for sorption of methylene blue (MB) from aqueous media. BC was functionalized using DDAB by cation exchange of the DDAB moiety with positive ions existing inside the interlayer spaces of the BC. X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies confirmed that the d-spacing of DDAB-BC became wider (3.39 Å) than that of BC (3.33 Å). Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were exploited to explore the functional groups and morphological structure of sorbents, respectively. The Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area, pore volume, and pore diameter of DDAB-BC were determined as 124.6841

SUBMITTER: Munir M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7364704 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature