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Adsorption of hexavalent chromium using Water Hyacinth Leaf Protein Concentrate/Graphene Oxide hydrogel

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Water Hyacinth Leaf Protein Concentrate/Graphene Oxide (WHLPC/GO) hydrogel was synthesized for the removal of Cr(VI) from wastewater. About 90% of the prepared hydrogel constitutes WHLPC. The prepared material was characterized by FT-IR and XRD. The process variables such as pH, contact time, adsorbent dosage, initial Cr(VI) concentration, and temperature were optimized using a batch mode experiment. Kinetic studies were also conducted and it was observed that the chemosorptive pseudo-second-order best described the adsorption system with a correlation coefficient (R2) of 0.984. The highest adsorption capacity of 322.00 mg/g was achieved at pH 1.0, and equilibrium was achieved within 420 min. Various isotherm models were analyzed using non-linear fitting. It was found that the Sips model provides the best fit, indicating heterogeneous and uniform active site surface adsorption of Cr(VI) on the WHLPC/GO. The reuse efficiency of the synthesized material was also found to be greater than 84% for five consecutive cycles. Thermodynamic studies were conducted and results revealed that the adsorption was spontaneous and endothermic.

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    Asmamaw Taye, Negash Getachew, Solomon Mehretie & Shimelis Admassie

  2. Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Science, Jimma University, P.O. Box 378, Jimma, Ethiopia

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Asmamaw Taye; Conceived and designed the experiments; Performed the experiments; Analyzed and interpreted the data; Contributed reagents, materials, analysis tools or data; Wrote the paper. Solomon Mehretie, Shimelis Admassie, Alemayehu Yifru: Conceived and designed the experiments; Analyzed and interpreted the data; Contributed reagents, materials, analysis tools or data; Wrote the paper. Negash Getachew runs the XRD experiments.

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Taye, A., Yifru, A., Getachew, N. et al. Adsorption of hexavalent chromium using Water Hyacinth Leaf Protein Concentrate/Graphene Oxide hydrogel. Environ Monit Assess 195, 1342 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-023-11960-w

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