Photocatalytic Activity of Chitosan/Zn-gel Blend for the Photo Degradation of Methyl Orange, for Wastewater Treatment

Wahab, H. A.; Gwily, N.; Atta, D.; Battisha, I. K.

doi:10.21608/ejchem.2022.156162.6759

	Photocatalytic Activity of Chitosan/Zn-gel Blend for the Photo Degradation of Methyl Orange, for Wastewater Treatment
Egyptian Journal of Chemistry
Volume 65, Issue 132, December 2022, Page 1129-1134 PDF (971.75 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/ejchem.2022.156162.6759
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Authors
H. A. Wahab ¹^{, 2}; N. Gwily³; D. Atta³; I. K. Battisha¹^{, 2}
¹Solid State Physics Department, Physics Research Institute, National Research Centre (NRC), Dokki, Giza, Egypt, (Affiliation ID: 60014618).
²Electric and dielectric materials measurement Unit, National Research Centre (NRC), Dokki, Giza, Egypt, (Affiliation ID: 60014618).
³Nonlinear optics unit, Spectroscopy Department, Physics Research Institute, National Research Centre, (NRC), Dokki, Giza, Egypt. (Affiliation ID: 60014618)
Abstract
The purpose of this work was to examine the photocatalytic activity of Chitosan/Zn- gel blend film. It is well known that Chitosan can do photo-degradation; Zinc gel was added as a blend to enhance the photo-catalytic behavior of chitosan. Their photocatalytic activities were estimated by the degradation of the used dye from its solution by using the Chitosan/Zn-gel blend film. The influence of operating parameters such as Zn-gel concentration was thoroughly examined to obtain the optimum conditions for photo-catalytic degradation. The particle size for Zn-gel and the dielectric properties for Chitosan/Zn-gel blend was measured. The kinetics and color photo-degradation efficiency has been calculated based on spectrophotometry. It is found that the prepared blinds are very efficient as photo-catalytic media for the Methyl Orang; the color removal efficiency reached 87% which is great, especially since no complicated preparation followed and also no special irradiation only the sunlight The ε' and ε'' were measured in a frequency range extending from 1 Hz up to 100 kHz. The frequency enhancement results in collapsing of the ε' amounts for all mentioned prepared samples and the ε' appeared independent of frequency.
Keywords
Zn gel; Chitosan; Photocatalytic activity; Methyl Orange; Spectrophotometry; Bio-material


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