Showing papers in "Journal of Molecular Liquids in 2015"

TL;DR: In this article, a novel adsorbent, copper oxide nanoparticle loaded on activated carbon (CuO-NP-AC), was synthesized by a simple, low cost and efficient procedure.

TL;DR: The potential of nanomaterials as nanoadsorbents and their many advances are discussed in details in this article, where their advantages and drawbacks in treating contaminated water are evaluated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the use of agricultural waste for organic pollutants adsorption from aqueous solution has been reviewed, where the authors focused on the preparation of activated carbon through various agricultural wastes and their modified.

TL;DR: In this article, the inhibition of mild steel corrosion in 1M HCl solution by some imidazolium-based ionic liquids (ILs) was investigated using experimental and theoretical techniques.

TL;DR: In this article, a microwave assisted green method for the rapid synthesis of silver nanoparticles was reported, which was applied as a catalyst in the degradation of methyl orange and methylene blue by NaBH4.

TL;DR: In this article, an iron oxide activated red mud (IOARM) was used effectively to adsorb Cd(II) from aqueous solution, and the optimized adsorption parameters were: pH-6.0, dose 6.0, contact time 90min, initial concentration 400μg/L and temperature 300 K.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive study of the adsorption characteristics of cadmium(II) on modified structures of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), carbon nanofibres (CNFs), activated carbon (AC), and fly ash (FA) was performed using field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of non-uniform magnetic field on nanofluid forced convection heat transfer in a lid driven semi-annulus is studied and the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis are taken into account.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review article collects information from published works of the last two years (2014 and 2015), discussing about the alternative use of different algae (micro and macro) in raw or modified form as promising biosorbents for water or wastewater decontamination.

TL;DR: In this paper, a nanocomposite of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) functionalized with chitosan (CS) and poly-2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (pHEMA) was prepared and characterized.

TL;DR: In this paper, an iron nano-impregnated adsorbent was synthesized, characterized and applied for fluoride removal from the water, which obeyed Langmuir, Freundlich and Temkin models.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review article summarizes the alternative use of adsorbent materials for treatment of pharmaceutical wastewaters, and some of the most important materials discussed in this work are clays, polymers (chitosan), zeolites, various types of (activated) carbons, composite materials (graphene-based), agricultural wastes or soils.

TL;DR: In this paper, the photocatalytic and electrochemical activity of ZnO and CdO nanocomposites were determined by a vapor to solid mechanism and were characterized by different physical and chemical techniques.

TL;DR: In this paper, a magnetic recoverable CoFe2O4@TiO2 decorated reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite was prepared and used for investigating the photodegradation of chlorpyrifos.

TL;DR: In this paper, the adsorption of Cephalexin (CEX) from aqueous solution using natural zeolite (NZ) and Zeolite coated with manganese oxide nanoparticles (CZ) was investigated as a function of pH, shaking time, initial CEX concentrations, adsorbent dose, and competitive ions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the adsorption and inhibition effects of three 5-(phenylthio)-3H-pyrrole-4-carbonitriles (PPCs) namely: 2-amino-3-methyl-3phenyl-5-(phenylonthio), 3H pyrrole, 4-carbonitrile, and 5-phenyl thio-3Hpyr role-4 carbonitrile on mild steel corrosion in 1-M HCl have been studied by experimental and theoretical methods.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of three 2-amino-5-nitro-4,6-diarylcyclohex-2-ene-1,3,3-tricarbonitrile (ANDT) derivatives on mild steel corrosion in 1-M HCl was investigated using experimental and theoretical techniques.

TL;DR: In this paper, pyrimidine derivatives were synthesized and their inhibitive action against the corrosion of mild steel in 15% HCl solution was studied by weight loss, potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) techniques.

TL;DR: In this paper, the least square method (LSM) was used to solve the problem of micropolar fluid flow in a channel subject to a chemical reaction and the results reveal that the LSM can achieve suitable results in predicting the solution of these problems.

TL;DR: In this article, a bimetallic Fe-Zn nanoparticle was synthesized via a coprecipitation method and applied for the adsorptive removal of carcinogenic dye malachite green (MG) and Congo red (CR) in water.

TL;DR: In this paper, Amino group was used to functionalizing agent for the surface modification of GO to GO-G. The effect of numerous influential parameters such as contact time, temperature and initial concentration of Ni2+ in the aqueous solution was well illustrated and optimized using batch adsorption study.

TL;DR: In this article, a nanoporous metal organic framework (MOF-5) was synthesized as the copper ion (Cu 2 + ) adsorbent, which was characterized by XRD, SEM and nitrogen adsorption/desorption methods.

TL;DR: In this paper, the results of the adaption of Sterculia guttata shell waste (RSGS) and ZnCl 2 activated S. gutts waste (ASGS) were analyzed on the basis of pseudo-first order, pseudo-second order, intra-particle diffusion and Boyd models.

TL;DR: In this paper, a three dimensional problem of steady nanofluid deposition on an inclined rotating disk is illustrated, where the basic partial differential equations are reduced to ordinary differential equations which are solved numerically using the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method, and numerical investigation is carried out for different governing parameters namely: Normalized thickness, Schmidt number, Brownian parameter and thermophoretic parameter.

TL;DR: In this article, the formation of various binding bonds between the activated carbons, developed from the poplar and walnut woods, surface and the dye molecules was investigated and the adsorption may firstly take place on the external surface of the developed adsorbent i.e. activated carbon developed from walnut and poplar wood particles, where the attached functional groups played a crucial role in the rapid removal and fast adorption.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used MWCNTs as an efficient adsorbent for rapid removal of hazardous Congo red dye (CR) from aqueous solutions; the whole adsorption process was well investigated and elucidated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors applied a new method based on the mathematical derivation of some known isotherm from the Burr function which describes many birth-death (sorption-desorption) phenomena in ecology and economy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported green and rapid synthesis of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) using Sterculia acuminata (S. acuminatum) fruit extract.

TL;DR: In this article, three newly synthesized triazole Schiff bases (3-bromo-4-fluoro-benzylidene)-[1,2,4]triazol-4yl-amine (BFBT), (4-trifluoromethyl-benzmanyl-idene), and (1, 2, 4] triazol 4-ylamine (TMBT) were investigated as corrosion inhibitors on mild steel in 05 M hydrochloric acid by chemical (weight loss) and electrochemical (potenti