10.1007/s40097-015-0158-x

A comparative study on the basis of adsorption capacity between CNTs and activated carbon as adsorbents for removal of noxious synthetic dyes: a review

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  • Karim Zare1,
  • Vinod Kumar Gupta2,
  • Omid Moradi*3,
  • Abdel Salam Hamdy Makhlouf4,
  • Mika Sillanpää5,
  • Mallikarjuna N. Nadagouda6,
  • Hamidreza Sadegh7,
  • Ramin Shahryari-ghoshekandi7,
  • Angshuman Pal8,
  • Zhou-jun Wang9,
  • Inderjeet Tyagi10,
  • Maryam Kazemi11,
  1. Department of Chemistry, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IR Department of Chemistry, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, IR
  2. Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, 247667, IN Department of Chemistry, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Dhahran, Dhahran, SA Center for Environment and Water, The Research Institute, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Dhahran, Dhahran, 31261, SA Department of Applied Chemistry, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, ZA
  3. Department of Chemistry, Shahr-e-Qods Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IR
  4. Department of Manufacturing Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Texas Pan-American, Edinburg, US
  5. Laboratory of Green Chemistry, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Mikkeli, 50130, FI
  6. National Risk Management Research Laboratory, US Environmental Protection Agency, WSWRD, TTEB, Cincinnati, OH, US
  7. Department of Chemistry, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IR
  8. Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, 13699, US
  9. State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, CN
  10. Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, 247667, IN
  11. Department of Chemistry, Payame Noor University, Zanjan, IR
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Zare, K., Gupta, V. K., Moradi, O., Makhlouf, A. S. H., Sillanpää, M., Nadagouda, M. N., Sadegh, H., Shahryari-ghoshekandi, R., Pal, A., Wang, Z.- jun, Tyagi, I., & Kazemi, M. (2015). A comparative study on the basis of adsorption capacity between CNTs and activated carbon as adsorbents for removal of noxious synthetic dyes: a review. Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry, 5(2 (June 2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40097-015-0158-x
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Abstract

Abstract Rapid removal of noxious synthetic dyes from wastewater is of great concern in the scientific research field, this is due to the expansion of harmful effects of synthetic dyes traces in water streams on the environment and human health with the exponential rise in concentration of synthetic dye globally and demand in various industries that coincided with the implantation of more stringent water quality standards. Various technologies have been applied for the removal of synthetic dye from wastewater, including adsorption technology, which has a great potential in treating varieties of synthetic dyes. This article comprehensively reviews the latest progress in the development of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and their applications for the removal of synthetic dyes from wastewater, including functionalized of CNTs and their researched counterparts. The emerging trends in the development of alternative adsorbents with different substrates, morphologies, and functional groups are also elucidated.

Keywords

  • Carbon nanotubes (CNTs),
  • Activated carbon (AC),
  • Synthetic dyes,
  • Adsorption,
  • Functionalization,
  • Wastewater treatment
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