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Synthesis, and Characterization of Magnetic Nano-particles using Opuntia Extract, and its Applications in Wastewater Treatment

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

Opuntia peels have several properties that can be used as an environmentally friendly and renewable synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles using the green synthesis method. The purpose of this study is to identify the properties of nanoparticles prepared from opuntia peel extract and used in wastewater treatment. In this study, the efficiency of slurry methods such as coagulation, flocculation, and adsorption were compared using magnetic iron nanoparticles (O-FeNPs) with opuntia peels. The prepared iron nanoparticles were investigated and the surface properties of the particles were determined using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR). Several factors were applied to determine the efficiency of different treatment processes, such as contact time (0 to 60 minutes) and doses (0.1-1.0 g). The chemical oxygen demand (COD), biological oxygen demand (BOD5), total kjelidahl nitrogen (TKN), total nitrogen (TN), ammonia (NH3+), phosphate (PO43-), total suspended solid (TSS), and nitrate (NO3-), were measured for the wastewater before and after treatment. By examining the iron nanoparticles by FT-IR spectroscopy, the presence of biologically active opuntia particles on the surfaces of the nanoparticles was revealed. Also, the XRD pattern revealed that the nanoparticles are present in the oxide form as a phase of Fe2O3. The results shown among the treatment methods, flocculation and coagulation have lower efficiencies, while O-Fe NPS has higher efficiencies in removing pollutants from wastewater treatment. It was concluded that the O-Fe NPs removal efficiencies were 87.4%, 87.3%. 96.28%, 98.19%, 96.28% 34.4%, 86.4%, and 100% for COD, BOD5, TKN, TN, NH3+, PO43-, TSS, and NO3-, respectively. It confirmed that the magnetic nanoparticle/ opuntia composite is an environmentally friendly adsorbent that can be effectively used in environmental applications such as wastewater treatment.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2023.210360.7959

Keywords

wastewater treatments, Coagulation, flocculation, Opuntia, iron magnetic nanoparticles

Authors

First Name

Hussein

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Housing and Building Research Center (HBRC), Sanitary and Environmental Engineering Institute

Email

hussein_fee@yahoo.com

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0002-5791-444X

First Name

nouran

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

Y.

Affiliation

Housing and Bulding Centre (HBRC) sanitary and Environmental Institute. Dokki, Giza, Egypt, 12613

Email

chem.nouran@gmail.com

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-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

El-Khateeb

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Water Pollution Control Dep., National Research Center, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt

Email

elkhateebcairo@yahoo.com

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0001-8670-265X

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Hefny

MiddleName

Mahmoud

Affiliation

Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

Email

mmhefny_cu005@yahoo.com

City

Cairo -Egypt

Orcid

-

First Name

Fatehy

Last Name

Abdel-Haleem

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

Email

fatehy@sci.cu.edu.eg

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-

Orcid

-

First Name

Neama

Last Name

ahmed

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-

Affiliation

Sanitary and Environmental Institute, Housing and Building National Research Center.

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neamaahmedreiad@yahoo.com

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c

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-

Volume

67

Article Issue

8

Related Issue

47534

Issue Date

2024-08-01

Receive Date

2023-05-11

Publish Date

2024-08-01

Page Start

171

Page End

178

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_315115.html

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315,115

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Original Article

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297

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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

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Synthesis, and Characterization of Magnetic Nano-particles using Opuntia Extract, and its Applications in Wastewater Treatment

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Created At

30 Dec 2024