Simultaneous removal of mixed contaminants triclosan and copper by green synthesized bimetallic iron/nickel nanoparticles
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2019
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Lin, Y.
Jin, X.
Owens, G.
Chen, Z.
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Science of the Total Environment, 2019; 695(133878)
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The mixed contamination of environmental matrices by antibacterial agents and heavy metals has attracted much attention worldwide due to the complex nature of their environmental interactions and their potential toxicity. In this work, green synthesized bimetallic iron/nickel nanoparticles (Fe/Ni NPs) was used to simultaneously remove triclosan (TCS) and copper (Cu (II)) under optimal experimental conditions with removal efficiencies of 75.8 and 44.1% respectively. However, in a mixed contaminant system the removal efficiencies of TCS and Cu (II) were lower than when TCS (85.8%) and Cu (II) (52.5%) were removed separately, suggesting that there was competitive relationship between the two contaminants and Fe/Ni NPs used for remediation. SEM-EDS, XRD and FTIR all indicated that both TCS and Cu (II) were adsorbed onto Fe/Ni NPs. Furthermore, while XPS showed that Cu (II) was reduced to Cu<sup>0</sup>, GC-MS analysis showed that TCS also underwent degradation with 2,7/2,8-Cl<sub>2</sub>DD as the major intermediate. The adsorption of both contaminants fit well a pseudo second order kinetic model (R<sup>2</sup>>0.998) and the Freundlich isotherm (R<sup>2</sup>>0.905). Whereas the reduction kinetics obeyed a pseudo first order model. Thus, overall the removal of TCS and Cu (II) involved a combination of both adsorption and reduction. Finally, a removal mechanism for triclosan and Cu (II) was proposed. Overall, Fe/Ni NPs have the potential to practically coinstantaneously remove both TCS and Cu (II) from aqueous solution under a wide range of conditions.
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