Latha Vatchalan
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Water is, indisputably, the most vital component of life on earth. Water is a life elixir and its hardness is defined by the high concentration of magnesium, calcium, lead, chromium, iron, and mercury. The hardness of water limits its domestic and industrial usage severely. Therefore it is essential ...
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Water is, indisputably, the most vital component of life on earth. Water is a life elixir and its hardness is defined by the high concentration of magnesium, calcium, lead, chromium, iron, and mercury. The hardness of water limits its domestic and industrial usage severely. Therefore it is essential to suggest a simple, low-cost, and robust method for hard water treatment by evaluating the results in terms of Physicochemical parameters. In this paper, an efficient approach for hard water treatment by using synthesized carbon nanoparticles (C NPs) of Phyllanthus Emblica wood barks. The water samples are collected from the towns and villages located in Virudhunagar and Tuticorin District. For hardness treatment, in this work the physicochemical parameters considered are pH, TDS, dissolved Oxygen, Ca, Mg, Chloride, Alkalinity, and hardness levels. The experimental analysis, cleared that the proposed carbon nanoparticles synthesized from Phyllanthus Emblica wood barks are a very efficient and cost-effective solution.
Latha Vatchalan; Pandiselvam S.
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Paper industries will be using a different kind of dyes for producing various kinds of paper. Rhodamine–B (Rh-B) dye is one of the major sources of color effluents from textile and paper dyeing industries, and they cause long-term effects for on an aquatic environment. So this work mainly focused ...
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Paper industries will be using a different kind of dyes for producing various kinds of paper. Rhodamine–B (Rh-B) dye is one of the major sources of color effluents from textile and paper dyeing industries, and they cause long-term effects for on an aquatic environment. So this work mainly focused on the synthesis of carbon nanoparticles from neem leaves, characterization and its adsorption and photocatalytic action against Rh-B dye. In this study, Carbon nanoparticles (C NPs) from neem leaves were synthesized for adsorption and photo catalytic degradation of Rh-B dye used in paper industries. The synthesized carbon NPs were characterized by the powder X-Ray Diffraction and Scanning Electron Microscopy. The adsorption and photocatalytic properties of Ccarbon NPs were examined for 1 hour by studying the degradation of the Rh-B dye at every 5 minutes time interval through UV-Visible spectrophotometer. The results obtained shown that carbonC NPs acts as better adsorbents than as photo catalysts.