Synthesis of nanoscale nickel (II) ferrite and a study of its catalytic and sorption activities towards methyl orange
Abstract
Nanoscale magnetic spinel ferrites are attracting an increased attention as functional materials for catalysis and sorption. Such catalysts and sorbents are advantageous due to their chemical stability in aggressive media, their thermal stability, a large area of specific surface, and high saturation magnetization, which allows using them to create magnetically controlled functional materials. This article presents the results of the synthesis of nickel (II) ferrite nanopowder, its characterization, and a study of its catalytic and sorption activities towards methyl orange dye.
X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were used to characterize nanocrystalline NiFe2O4 synthesized by citrate combustion. The nickel spinel was tested as a catalyst of Fentonlike reaction of oxidative degradation of methyl orange under UV irradiation of l = 270 nm. The study involved differentiation of oxidation during dye sorption on a NiFe2O4 nanoscale catalyst. The oxidative degradation of the pollutant under ultraviolet irradiation in the presence of a catalyst was satisfactorily described by a pseudo-first-order model, the rate constant of the reaction was 0.0191 min–1. The degree of methyl orange destruction reached 99% 150 minutes after the beginning of the
reaction. A parallel experiment without the addition of hydrogen peroxide to the dye solution allowed assessing the sorption capacity of nanoscale nickel (II) ferrite. After 150 minutes, the concentration of the dye decreased by 7.5% due to its sorption, the equilibrium sorption capacity of NiFe2O4 was low (0.132 mg/g). This indicates that the methyl orange solution decolorizes mainly due to its catalytic oxidative degradation according to the Fenton reaction.
This allows considering nanoscale nickel ferrite as a promising material for wastewater treatment by deep oxidation of organic pollutants
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