The development and assessment of organobentonite composite materials for use in the removal of organochlorine pesticides in water

This work describes the modification of bentonite to organobentonites in order to change its property from hydrophilic to organophilic to enhance its capability in adsorbing organochlorine pesticides from water. Bentonite was modified by adding quarternary ammonium cations through an ion exchange te...

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Main Author: Kiew, Siaw Juie
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Language:English
Published: 2005
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spelling my-utm-ep.350042017-10-11T06:06:56Z The development and assessment of organobentonite composite materials for use in the removal of organochlorine pesticides in water 2005 Kiew, Siaw Juie Unspecified This work describes the modification of bentonite to organobentonites in order to change its property from hydrophilic to organophilic to enhance its capability in adsorbing organochlorine pesticides from water. Bentonite was modified by adding quarternary ammonium cations through an ion exchange technique. The organochlorine pesticides studied were heptachlor, aldrin, dieldrin, DDT and mirex. The modified bentonites were characterized using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), carbon, and hydrogen and nitrogen analyzer (CHN). Gas chromatography-mass selective detector (GC-MSD) was used to determine the concentration of organochlorine pesticides while evaluating the efficiencies of organobentonites in removing the pesticides from water. Bentonite modified with dodecyltrimethylammonium (DDTMA) has the highest capacity in removing pesticides. DDTMA-bentonite with the lowest amount of quarternary ammonium cations (0.710%) was capable of removing very high percentage of pesticides (95.96±2.50% of aldrin) after 30 minutes of water treatment duration. The optimized treatment conditions of 30 minutes of treatment duration, 0.2000 g of DDTMA-bentonite and 50 rpm of shaking speed were applied throughout this work on the samples obtained from the locations suspected of containing organochlorine pesticides 2005 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/35004/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/35004/1/KiewSiawJuieMFS2005.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:94419?queryType=vitalDismax&query=The+development+and+assessment+of+organobentonite+composite+&public=true masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Science Faculty of Science
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The development and assessment of organobentonite composite materials for use in the removal of organochlorine pesticides in water
description This work describes the modification of bentonite to organobentonites in order to change its property from hydrophilic to organophilic to enhance its capability in adsorbing organochlorine pesticides from water. Bentonite was modified by adding quarternary ammonium cations through an ion exchange technique. The organochlorine pesticides studied were heptachlor, aldrin, dieldrin, DDT and mirex. The modified bentonites were characterized using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), carbon, and hydrogen and nitrogen analyzer (CHN). Gas chromatography-mass selective detector (GC-MSD) was used to determine the concentration of organochlorine pesticides while evaluating the efficiencies of organobentonites in removing the pesticides from water. Bentonite modified with dodecyltrimethylammonium (DDTMA) has the highest capacity in removing pesticides. DDTMA-bentonite with the lowest amount of quarternary ammonium cations (0.710%) was capable of removing very high percentage of pesticides (95.96±2.50% of aldrin) after 30 minutes of water treatment duration. The optimized treatment conditions of 30 minutes of treatment duration, 0.2000 g of DDTMA-bentonite and 50 rpm of shaking speed were applied throughout this work on the samples obtained from the locations suspected of containing organochlorine pesticides
format Thesis
qualification_level Master's degree
author Kiew, Siaw Juie
author_facet Kiew, Siaw Juie
author_sort Kiew, Siaw Juie
title The development and assessment of organobentonite composite materials for use in the removal of organochlorine pesticides in water
title_short The development and assessment of organobentonite composite materials for use in the removal of organochlorine pesticides in water
title_full The development and assessment of organobentonite composite materials for use in the removal of organochlorine pesticides in water
title_fullStr The development and assessment of organobentonite composite materials for use in the removal of organochlorine pesticides in water
title_full_unstemmed The development and assessment of organobentonite composite materials for use in the removal of organochlorine pesticides in water
title_sort development and assessment of organobentonite composite materials for use in the removal of organochlorine pesticides in water
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Science
granting_department Faculty of Science
publishDate 2005
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/35004/1/KiewSiawJuieMFS2005.pdf
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