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Cu(II)/Z4A as an Efficient Nanocomposite for Oxidative Degradation of Indole and Optimization of Effective Factors via RSM Procedure

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

One of the aromatic contaminants in the oil and fuel is indole, which is toxic even at low doses and is considered as air and water pollutant. In this research, the surface of Zeolite 4A (Z4A) was modified by Cu(II)nanoparticles to introduce a desirable nanocomposite (Cu(II)/Z4A) for indole oxidative degradation. Catalysts characterization was carried out by XRD, SEM, EDS, FTIR, and BET/BJH techniques. Response Surface Methodology (RSM) based on Box-Behnken Design (BBD) was employed for studying several effective factors influences in indole oxidation process, including pH, weight percentage of loaded copper (Cu(wt %)), mass of composite, and indole initial concentration (IND concentration). The obtained results by BBD revealed the solution pH was the most pivotal factor in indole oxidative degradation and predicted that under the optimum experimental conditions, the efficiency should be 98.91%. Moreover, GC-mass analysis was applied for evaluating side products, of which results led to some mechanisms and new productions to be found by using indole oxidative degradation. The results also demonstrated that due to indole oxidation and applying the proper solvent (ethanol), some side products were generated capable of acting as a fuel octane number enhancer, which may play a significant role in obtaining more valuable fuels.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2021.33523.2703

Keywords

Conversion, Design of experiments, Isotherm, Zeolite

Authors

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Samira

Last Name

Amiri Khoshkar Vandani

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Department of Chemistry, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

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samira_amirii@ymail.com

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First Name

Reza

Last Name

Fazaeli

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Department of Chemistry, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

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r_fazaeli@azad.ac.ir

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Tehran

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First Name

Masoud

Last Name

Giahi Saravani

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Affiliation

Department of Chemistry, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

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m_giahi@azad.ac.ir

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First Name

Hoda

Last Name

Pasdar

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Department of Chemistry, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

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hodapass@gmail.com

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Volume

64

Article Issue

10

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27063

Issue Date

2021-10-01

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2020-06-23

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2021-10-01

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5,803

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5,811

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_171441.html

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297

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Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Cu(II)/Z4A as an Efficient Nanocomposite for Oxidative Degradation of Indole and Optimization of Effective Factors via RSM Procedure

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22 Jan 2023