%0 Journal Article
%@ 20462069
%A Kong, H.
%A Cheu, S.-C.
%A Othman, N.S.
%A Song, S.-T.
%A Saman, N.
%A Johari, K.
%A Mat, H.
%D 2016
%F scholars:7958
%I Royal Society of Chemistry
%J RSC Advances
%K Adsorbents; Benzene; Costs; Ethylene glycol; Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; Fruits; Isotherms; Polyethylene glycols; Polyols; Scanning electron microscopy; Solutions; X ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Batch adsorption experiments; Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide; Experimental conditions; Field emission scanning electron microscopes; Fourier transform infrared; Langmuir isotherm models; Sodium dodecyl sulphate; Surfactant modifications, Adsorption
%N 29
%P 24738-24751
%R 10.1039/c6ra00911e
%T Surfactant modification of banana trunk as low-cost adsorbents and their high benzene adsorptive removal performance from aqueous solution
%U https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/7958/
%V 6
%X The banana trunk was modified using cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS), poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(propylene glycol)-block-poly(ethylene glycol) (Pluronic 123), and 4-(1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl)phenyl-polyethylene glycol (Triton X-100) to develop novel low-cost adsorbents for benzene removal from aqueous solution. The surface morphology and functional groups of the synthesized adsorbents were determined by a field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) and a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrophotometer. The Brunauer, Emmett and Teller (BET) analysis and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) were also conducted to study adsorbent characteristics. The benzene adsorptive performance of the synthesized adsorbents was evaluated in a batch adsorption experiment at various experimental conditions. It was found that the highest benzene adsorption capacity (280.890 � 10-3 mmol g-1) was obtained for M-TX100-BT. The fundamental adsorption studies revealed that the benzene adsorption process was found to be thermodynamically non-spontaneous and all were fitted well by the Langmuir isotherm model. The adsorption kinetic data obeyed the pseudo-second kinetic model with the film diffusion as the rate-limiting step. The application prospects of the Triton X-100 modified banana trunk adsorbent were demonstrated through the regeneration study which revealed that it can also be repeatedly used for at least up to five-adsorption/desorption cycles and its adsorption capacity was comparable to the literature data of similar adsorbents. Thus, banana trunk agrowaste could be an alternative low-cost adsorbent precursor for the adsorptive benzene removal from an aqueous solution. © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2016.
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