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Hydrophobic cellulose aerogel from waste napkin paper for oil sorption applications

  • Amaret Sanguanwong ORCID logo , Prasert Pavasant , Teeraya Jarunglumlert , Kyuya Nakagawa , Adrian Flood EMAIL logo and Chattip Prommuak EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: January 31, 2020
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Nordic Pulp & Paper Research Journal
From the journal Nordic Pulp & Paper Research Journal Volume 35 Issue 1

Abstract

This study is the first, to the best of our knowledge, where waste napkin paper was successfully valorized to low-density (27.2 mg cm−3) cellulose aerogels for oil sorption material. Two simple methods with different gel coagulators, ethanol and sulfuric acid, were used for preparation of the aerogel. Conditions for the alkaline treatment of the raw material and the pre-freezing temperature in the lyophilization process were optimized. It was found that the water and oil sorption capacities of the aerogels were not significantly affected by alkaline treatment, while they could be adjusted by changing the pre-freezing temperature. Although the produced aerogels were initially amphiphilic, hydrophobic surfaces were obtained by vapor deposition of methyltrimethoxysilane (MTMS) and these materials possessed high sorption capacities, up to 32.24 cm3 g−1 (28.56 g g−1) for pump oil and 26.77 cm3 g−1 (39.59 g g−1) for chloroform. This was comparable to aerogels prepared from fresh cellulosic materials via the sol-gel method, as their sorption capacities varied in the range of 14–45 g g−1.

Keywords: cellulose; hydrophobic; oil absorption; porous material; waste paper

Funding statement: This work was supported by Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC).

Acknowledgments

Instrumental support from the Frontier Research Center at VISTEC and Institute of Materials Science of Madrid of Spanish National Research Council (ICMM-CSIS) are acknowledged.

  1. Conflict of interest: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Received: 2018-11-14
Accepted: 2019-10-31
Published Online: 2020-01-31
Published in Print: 2020-03-26

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https://doi.org/10.1515/npprj-2018-0075
Keywords for this article
cellulose; hydrophobic; oil absorption; porous material; waste paper

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Review paper
  3. On the development of the refiner mechanical pulping process – a review
  4. Bleaching
  5. Oxalate formation during ClO2 bleaching of bamboo kraft pulp
  6. Mechanical pulping
  7. Defibration mechanisms and energy consumption in the grinding zone – a lab scale equipment and method to evaluate groundwood pulping tools
  8. Paper technology
  9. Insight into fractionation performance of American old corrugated containers pulp in pressure screening
  10. Comprehensive utilization of Ganoderma lucidum residues in papermaking
  11. Effect of turbulence generator structures to the performance of medium-consistency pump at high rotation speed excesses 2000 rpm
  12. Mechanical properties of low-density paper
  13. Determination of relative solids concentration in homogeneous dual component pulp-filler suspension by multi-spectrophotometer
  14. Paper physics
  15. Surface characterization of paper and paperboard using a stylus contact method
  16. Paper chemistry
  17. Filler modified by a sequential encapsulation and preflocculation method and its effect on paper properties
  18. Significant contribution of fibrils on pulp fiber surface to water retention value
  19. Impregnation of paper with cellulose nanofibrils and polyvinyl alcohol to enhance durability
  20. Printing
  21. Vibration measurements of paper prints and the data analysis
  22. Predicting inkjet dot spreading and print through from liquid penetration- and picoliter contact angle measurement
  23. Environmental impact
  24. Hydrophobic cellulose aerogel from waste napkin paper for oil sorption applications
  25. A comparative study of an anaerobic-oxic (AO) system and a sequencing batch biofilm reactor (SBBR) in coating wastewater treatment and their microbial communities
  26. Acknowledgment
  27. Acknowledgment
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