Removal of small-sized microplastics from aqueous solution with Fe3O4 nanoparticles by magnetic separation
JIANG Wei-nan, SUI Qian, Lü Shu-guang
State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Environmental Risk Assessment and Control on Chemical Process, School of Resource and Environmental Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
Abstract:In this study, we developed a fluorescence quantitative analysis method to detect the concentration of Microplastics (MPs), and studied the removal of polystyrene MPs with Fe3O4 nanoparticles by magnetic separation in water. Results showed that the concentration of MPs (0.2~10.0mg/L) had a good linear relationship with fluorescence intensity and the correlation coefficients were all greater than 0.9990, indicating its feasibility to accurately determine MPs concentrations with different particle sizes (100~1000nm). The initial concentration of MPs and the dose of Fe3O4 nanoparticles had influence on the removal of MPs. Increasing the dose of Fe3O4 nanoparticles could obviously improve the removal efficiency of MPs in water. When the dose of Fe3O4 was 12mg/L, the removal efficiency could reach 90.8%. When the dose of Fe3O4 was low, the removal efficiency of MPs increased significantly with the increase of the initial concentration of MPs and the significance level was 0.015. However, when the dose of Fe3O4 was medium or high, the initial concentration had little influence on the removal effect, and the significance level was 0.073 and 0.060, respectively. The adhesion process of Fe3O4 nanoparticles to the MPs tended to equilibrium within 180 min, and the dynamics could be fitted using a quasi-first-order or quasi-second-order kinetic model.
姜伟楠, 隋倩, 吕树光. 利用Fe3O4纳米颗粒磁分离去除水中小粒径微塑料[J]. 中国环境科学, 2021, 41(8): 3601-3606.
JIANG Wei-nan, SUI Qian, Lü Shu-guang. Removal of small-sized microplastics from aqueous solution with Fe3O4 nanoparticles by magnetic separation. CHINA ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCECE, 2021, 41(8): 3601-3606.
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