Produção de nanopartículas magnéticas aplicada ao processo de tratamento de efluentes oriundos das indústrias têxteis

Abstract

Iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) were synthetized by chemical coprecipitation method under ultrasound. Synthetized NPs were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, porosimetry and magnetometry. The crystalline phase of the obtained NPs was identified as maghemite and the crystallite average size was estimated by Scherrer equation around 31.5 nm. The FTIR spectra presented distinct absorptions bands at corresponding to intrinsic stretching vibrations of Fe–O bond at the iron oxides. Langmuir and BET surface areas of as-formed samples is 220,15 ± 19,81 m2 g-1 and 127,19 ± 4,94 m2 g-1 respectively. NPs samples present ferromagnetic behavior and saturation magnetization (SM) value of 46 emu g-1. Adsorption performances on synthetized and commercial nanoparticles were investigated and compared. The influences of parameters including pH, dye concentration, and agitation time have been investigated in order to find the optimum adsorption conditions. Parameters as pH 4.0, with 150 min of contact time and dye concentration of 20 mg L-1 were chosen. Adsorption results indicate that the isotherm and kinetics for dye adsorption on NPs obey Freundlich isotherm and pseudo-second-order kinetic, respectively. The maximum dye (20 mg·L-1) removal efficiency to maghemite NPs was found to be 43% and to commercial magnetite NPs was 33%. For the same experimental conditions, maghemite also had better application of the available area for adsorption than the magnetite NPs, presenting values of 8.80 mg g-1 and 6.12 mg g-1, respectively.