SÍNTESE E CARACTERIZAÇÃO DE UM MATERIAL NANOESTRUTURADO MAGNÉTICO, PARA ADSORÇÃO DE RESÍDUOS DE CORANTES EM MEIO LÍQUIDO

Abstract

Pernambuco's agreste region has developed with the growth of the local textile industry, this growth has brought with it the pollution of some rivers in the region. One of the steps in the fabric manufacturing process is dyeing, which uses synthetic dyes with high stability and resistance to degradation. In the fabric washing process, excess dye is released from the fibers and generates contaminated effluents. As a result, many studies have been developed aiming at new efficient methodologies for the decontamination of these effluents. Adsorption has been widely used in the treatment of textile effluents with the use of magnetic nanomaterials that work as adsorbents for textile dyes and are easily removed from the medium, through the application of an external magnetic field. In this work, iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) with average crystallite size between 30 and 35 nm were synthesized. These NPs were used as adsorbents for Reactive Black 5 (RB5) dye residues in aqueous medium. The decolorization and removal efficiencies of RB5 by the NPs were around 100% and 40%, respectively. The adsorption kinetics was better adjusted to the Pseudo Second Order method with correlation coefficient R2 = 0,95. For the adsorption isotherms, the Langmuir and Freundlich models were satisfactorily adjusted to the results obtained.