The light enhanced removal of Bisphenol A from wastewater using cotton waste derived carbon microtubes

Kamyar Shirvanimoghaddam; Bożena Czech; Grzegorz Wójcik; Minoo Naebe

doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2018.12.090

The light enhanced removal of Bisphenol A from wastewater using cotton waste derived carbon microtubes

J Colloid Interface Sci. 2019 Mar 15:539:425-432. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2018.12.090. Epub 2018 Dec 26.

Authors

Kamyar Shirvanimoghaddam¹, Bożena Czech², Grzegorz Wójcik³, Minoo Naebe⁴

Affiliations

¹ Carbon Nexus, Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Victoria 3216, Australia. Electronic address: kamyar.shirvanimoghaddam@deakin.edu.au.
² Department of Environmental Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland.
³ Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland.
⁴ Carbon Nexus, Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Victoria 3216, Australia; School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, 270 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup, Perth, WA 6027, Australia. Electronic address: minoo.naebe@deakin.edu.au.

PMID: 30599398
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2018.12.090

Abstract

The development of high performance, sustainable and inexpensive catalyst for environmental applications is a highly innovative and promising approach to meet the increasing demands from society on water treatment and pollution remediation. Carbon microtube (CMT) synthesized from cotton waste was successfully developed by direct pyrolysis of cotton bundle in argon atmosphere in different carbonization temperature (900, 1100, 1300 and 1500 °C). Carbon microtubes have been used for removal of Bisphenol A (BPA) in wastewater and showed the optimum performance for CMT11 and CMT 13. The mechanism involved in this efficient water treatment was ascribed to the strong π-π interaction and hydrogen bonds between CMT and BPA. Given the repeatability, high removal performance and cost effectiveness of the cotton based carbon microtubes when compared to other well-known catalysts such as carbon nanotubes, the carbon microtubes demonstrated great potential as low-cost, sustainable and effective catalyst for wastewater treatment.

Keywords: BPA; Carbon microtubes; Catalysis; Cotton waste; Sustainability.