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Coconut shell-derived green synthesised carbon nanotubes for clean-up of crude oil spills

  • Mansur Yahaya Ibrahim EMAIL logo and Hadi Sulaiman
Published/Copyright: June 10, 2024
Pure and Applied Chemistry
From the journal Pure and Applied Chemistry Volume 96 Issue 6

Abstract

The global economy has led to an increase in oil transportation and exploitation, posing a threat to aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Crude oil spilled water purification is a major challenge worldwide. Researchers are focusing on finding adsorbents that improve oil adsorption capability. In the present study the adsorption of crude oil using synthesized carbon nanotubes (CNTs) prepared from coconut shell was investigated by batch adsorption experiments under varying parameters (adsorbent dosage and contact time) after analytical techniques (UV–vis, FTIR and SEM) confirmed the formation of the CNTs. The morphological modification significantly increased the hydrophobicity of the adsorbent, thus creating a synthesized CNTs with a much better adsorption capacity for crude oil removal having a maximum adsorption capacity of 4855.8 mg/g. The experimental results showed that the percentage of crude oil removal increased with an increase in adsorbent dosage and the contact time respectively. According to the correlation coefficient (R 2 = 0.9801) value obtained from the adsorption isotherm investigations, the isotherms were found to fit the Freundlich isotherm somewhat better than the Langmuir isotherm model, which is consistent with the findings reported in the literature. These findings have made the synthesised CNTs an attractive, useful, and environmentally friendly adsorbent for controlling crude oil spill.

Keywords: 8th Annual Symposium ACS Nigeria Chapter; adsorption; IUPAC African Early Career Chemists Workshop; carbon nanotubes; coconut shell; crude oil; spill
Corresponding author: Mansur Yahaya Ibrahim, Department of Pure and Industrial Chemistry, Sokoto State University, Sokoto, Nigeria, e-mail:
Article note: A collection of invited papers based on presentations at the African Early Career Chemists Workshop and 8th ACS Nigerian Chapter Symposium.

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Published Online: 2024-06-10
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https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2024-0207
Keywords for this article
8th Annual Symposium ACS Nigeria Chapter; adsorption; IUPAC African Early Career Chemists Workshop; carbon nanotubes; coconut shell; crude oil; spill

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  2. In this issue
  3. Preface
  4. African Early Career Chemists Workshop & 8th Annual Symposium of the American Chemical Society, Nigeria International Chapter 2023
  5. Conference papers
  6. Design and simulation of 30 000 tons per year of cumene plant from natural gas field
  7. Activity profiling of natural and synthetic SARS-Cov-2 inhibitors using molecular docking analysis
  8. Efficiency of green synthesised carbon nanotubes from Moringa oleifera leaf extract as potential toxic metals adsorbent in polluted water
  9. Elucidating the interaction of FCC catalyst components: the discrete roles of matrix and binder on zeolite structure
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  12. Special topic paper
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