Revolutionizing Water Hyacinth Flash Graphene Technology to Remove Cu(II) from Wastewater: Equilibrium Isotherm, Kinetics and Thermodynamic Studies
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Abstract
The work examines how flash graphene made from Water hyacinth after flash joule heating (WHAF) behaves as an adsorbent for removing Cu(II) ions from water solutions emphasizing its potential for sustainable and economical use.Broken water hyacinth weeds were subjected to carbonization and electro-flash treatment before being converted into flash graphene.FTIR, SEM, XRD, and BET analyses indicated that water hyacinth after flash joule heating (WHAH) transformed untreated water hyacinth before flash joule heating (WHBF) into an adsorbent with enhanced surface area, improved porosity, and an improved crystalline structure.The study evaluated Cu(II) removal effectiveness under various conditions during batch adsorption experiments, which tested pH values, adsorbent amounts, contact duration, initial metal concentration, speed of agitation, and operating temperature.Cu(II) removal reached its maximum level of 92.09% under pH conditions of 7 and through usage of 1 g of adsorbent for 60 minutes at 45℃.The adsorption process showed heterogeneous energy distribution patterns, which fit both the Freundlich isotherm and pseudo-second-order kinetic models.The sorption process remains stable due to the positive entropy and endothermic nature indicated by thermodynamic analysis.The study demonstrates that WHAF presents feasible economic prospects for eco-friendly heavy metal wastewater remediation while promoting sustainable environmental pollution control.The research findings demonstrate that WHAF can effectively function as an adsorbent material for environmental cleanup.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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