TY - JOUR ID - 26371 TI - A Study of Effects of Different Surface Modifications of MWCNTs on their Adsorption Capacity of Benzene and Toluene JO - Iranian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering JA - IJCCE LA - en SN - 1021-9986 AU - Pourfayaz, Fathollah AU - Ahmadi-Avval, Parviz AU - Haji Tarverdi, Mohammad Sadegh AU - Maleki, Akbar AU - Ahmadi, Mohammad Hossein AD - Department of Renewable Energies and Environment, Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 14395-1561 Tehran, I.R. IRAN AD - Farayand Chemical Research Group, ACECR, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, I.R. IRAN AD - Technology Development Institute, ACECR, Tehran, I.R. IRAN AD - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, I.R. IRAN Y1 - 2017 PY - 2017 VL - 36 IS - 6 SP - 107 EP - 114 KW - Surface modification KW - Carbon nanotubes KW - Adsorption KW - Aromatic contaminants DO - 10.30492/ijcce.2017.26371 N2 - Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNTs) surfaces were serially modified by the annealing treatment under Helium flow at 1000oC, the nitric acid treatment and again the annealing treatment under same conditions and their maximum adsorption capacities for benzene and toluene were measured and analyzed. The unmodified and modified MWCNTs werecharacterized by Fourier Transform InfraRed (FT-IR) and Raman spectroscopy techniques and Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) specific surface area measurements. The results revealed that the nitric acid treatment leads to form the functional groups and defects on the MWCNTs surfaces and increase their specific surface areas while the annealing treatments remove the functional groups and defects and therefore improve the structural integrity of the MWCNTs and enhance the p-p ­interaction between the MWCNTs and the toluene/benzene. According to the measurements of the maximum adsorption capacities, both acid and annealing treatments increased the adsorption capacity of the MWCNTs for both the benzene and toluene. It can be finally concluded that the adsorption capacity of the carbon nanotubes for the aromatic organic adsorbates such as benzene and toluene not only depends on their specific surface area but also is influenced by the structural integrity of the carbon nanotubes. UR - https://ijcce.ac.ir/article_26371.html L1 - https://ijcce.ac.ir/article_26371_f937656405387748ebb8292ab01d135c.pdf ER -