HUANG Jiankun, LIU Hui'e, HUANG Yangfan, et al. Facile synthesis of MWCNT/SiO2 nano-composites as high-performance oil adsorbents[J]. CIESC Journal, 2016, 67(10): 4485-4492. DOI: 10.11949/j.issn.0438-1157.20160148.
HUANG Jiankun, LIU Hui'e, HUANG Yangfan, et al. Facile synthesis of MWCNT/SiO2 nano-composites as high-performance oil adsorbents[J]. CIESC Journal, 2016, 67(10): 4485-4492. DOI: 10.11949/j.issn.0438-1157.20160148.DOI:
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes-silica (MWCNT/SiO2) nano-composites were prepared from carboxylated MWCNTs and silica sol-gel nanoparticles via one-step scalable precipitation. Structure and physical properties of the nano-composite were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)
scanning electron microscope (SEM)
thermogravimetric analysis (TGA)
and porous surface area and pore size distribution analysis (BET & BJH). Adsorption removal of oil was evaluated in diesel water on the nano-composite in comparison with SiO2 sol-gel nanoparticles
pristine MWCNTs
and activated carbon. The nano-composite improved MWCNT agglomeration after surface modification by silica nanoparticles and formed dual microporous and mesoporous structures. The diesel removal efficiency of the nano-composite could be up to 97.79% with adsorption equilibrium reached within 1 h. The adsorption process followed the pseudo second-order kinetics with the apparent activation energy at 11.37 kJ·mol-1 and the adsorption isotherms were fitted well with the Freundlich model. Overall
the nano-composite MWCNT/SiO2 showed stronger adsorption capacity than the other three adsorbents.