Title: | Porous Clay Heterostructure with Alginate Encapsulation for Toluene Removal |
Author(s): | Son Y; Kim TH; Kim D; Hwang Y; |
Address: | "Department of Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 01811, Korea" |
ISSN/ISBN: | 2079-4991 (Print) 2079-4991 (Electronic) 2079-4991 (Linking) |
Abstract: | "A volatile organic compound adsorbent based on a porous clay heterostructure (PCH) with alginate biopolymer was successfully prepared. From N(2) adsorption-desorption analysis, the specific surface area, pore volume, and pore size of bentonite were dramatically increased after introducing the porous structure. Following complexation with alginate (Alg-PCH), the pore volume and pore size were not significantly affected by pore structure. The thermal stability of Alg-PCH shows enhanced thermal stability compared to alginate and alginate beads. The morphology layered structure of Alg-PCH was carried out by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), suggesting the disorder and re-order of the c-axis layer stacking by porous structure and complexation with alginate, respectively, which was well-matched with X-ray diffraction results. To optimize the preparation of Alg-PCH, various reaction conditions (alginate, CaCl(2) concentration, bead size, and weight ratio between alginate and PCH) were utilized. According to the toluene adsorption-desorption experiments, the preparation conditions for Alg-PCH were selected as a 2 mm extrusion tip, 0.5% of alginate, and 2% of CaCl(2) solution with a 1:50 alginate:PCH weight ratio. Additionally, it shows 61.63 mg/g adsorption capacity with around 49% desorption efficacy under atmospheric temperature and pressure" |
Keywords: | adsorption-desorption bentonite porous clay heterostructure toluene volatile organic carbon; |
Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINESon, Yeongkyun Kim, Tae-Hyun Kim, Daekeun Hwang, Yuhoon eng 2017M1A2A2086647/National Research Foundation of Korea/ Not available/Seoul National University of Science and Technology/ Switzerland 2021/02/07 Nanomaterials (Basel). 2021 Feb 3; 11(2):388. doi: 10.3390/nano11020388" |