Exploring the perspective of nano-TiO2 in hydrophobic modified cationic flocculant preparation : Reaction kinetics and emulsified oil removal performance

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To reduce the polymerization difficulty of hydrophobic modified copolymers, a hydrophobic modified cationic flocculant was fabricated using nano-TiO2 as initiator with acrylamide (AM) and methyl acryloxyethyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride (DML) as monomers, and named it PAD. The copolymers were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and thermogravimetric analysis (TG). Results verified that PAD was synthesized successfully and nano-TiO2 was more conducive to DML grafting than traditional photo-initiators. Reaction kinetics demonstrated that the polymerization process was a typical precipitation polymerization initiated by free radicals. Flocculation performance of flocculant on simulated emulsified oil was evaluated and optimized. The simulation results indicated that the flocculation performance of PAD was superior to traditional flocculant, which was attributed to the higher content of DML in PAD. The maximum removal rate of emulsified oil could reach 92.10%, and the corresponding turbidity removal rate was 93.54%. Further, the mechanism studies suggested that the removal of emulsified oil was realized by the synergistic effects of electric neutralization, demulsification, hydrophobic association and adsorption bridging. The findings of this study showed that nano-TiO2 exhibited a promising prospect in the field of polymer-initiated polymerization.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:263

Enthalten in:

Chemosphere - 263(2021) vom: 15. Jan., Seite 128066

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tang, Qian [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Dai, Xinning [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yuchen [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Hong [VerfasserIn]
Fan, Liangqian [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Hongbing [VerfasserIn]
Ji, Lin [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Ke [VerfasserIn]

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15FIX9V2JP
D1JT611TNE
Emulsified oil
Flocculation
Hydrophobic
Journal Article
Nano-TiO(2)
Reaction kinetics
Titanium
Titanium dioxide

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Date Completed 21.12.2020

Date Revised 21.12.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128066

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NLM318625369