Water is a vital resource for all life beings on earth. In fact, over the past 20 years, water demand dramatically increased due to the booming in global population and industrialization. Global population will peak at 9.7 billion around 2064. The huge need for water for many human activities is dramatically growing and worsening in many parts of the world. Dumping, industrial runoff, leaks and spills, mining and so on generate harmful compounds or pollutants that should be treated before they are released to the ecosystem. Therefore, with the current technological treatment methods, water contamination is inevitable. Dyes are one of the problematic contaminants that are produced and released in wastewater without being efficiently remediated. These dyeing effluents have complex chemicals that may cause health and environmental long-term impacts to all living creatures. Most of the current physical, chemical and biological technologies used in wastewater treatment are prohibitively expensive and face many operational challenges. Therefore, the development of economic and scalable techniques can profoundly secure access to safe and good drinking water quality. The advancement in the last two decades of emerging removal methods including adsorption onto non-conventional solids, advanced oxidation and photodegradation are gaining massive attention. Nowadays, metal organic frameworks (MOFs) which consist of metal centers and organic linkers to form infinite crystalline networks have numerous revolutionizing applications in wastewater treatment. Because of their porous nature, structural designability, and intrinsic features in terms of preparation and functional modification, the uniqueness of these materials is crystallized to become one of the hot topics. This study evaluates the removal efficiency of in-house prepared MIL 88-A towards congo red (CR) dye. Batch mode experiments considering different operational parameters and both physical and chemical phenomena occurring in the reaction network will be showcased and discussed in detail. Overall, adsorption and photodegradation preliminary results showed high removal efficiency of CR.  The reaction kinetics, mechanism, and the model consistency with parameters combined with experimental data validation will be elaborated and discussed further during the presentation.

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https://iupac.org/event/iupac-world-chemistry-congress-2021-montreal/

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Canada

Conference Date

Aug. 13, 2021 - Aug. 20, 2028

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https://iupac.org/event/iupac-world-chemistry-congress-2021-montreal/

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