Issue 2, 2024

Isolation of aqueous pesticides on surface-functionalized SBA-15: glyphosate kinetics and detailed empirical insights for atrazine

Abstract

Atrazine and glyphosate are two of the most used pesticides around the world causing serious water contamination. In this study, amine-functionalized Santa Barbara Amorphous-15 silica (SBA-15-NH2) was synthesized and employed for the aqueous adsorption of atrazine and glyphosate. The adsorbent was mesoporous post-functionalization with lower surface area, pore volume, size, and stability when compared to the SBA-15. The pesticides adsorption rates were high with over 85% of potential adsorption having occurred within the initial 180 min. The equilibria for atrazine and glyphosate adsorption were 60 and 360 min, respectively, and the rate data fit the fractal pseudo-second-order and pseudo-second-order models, respectively. Atrazine adsorption was higher at lower solution pH with reduced adsorption as the pH value increased. There was enhanced atrazine adsorption as temperature increased from 22 to 32 °C, but further temperature rise resulted in lower adsorption compared to that recorded at 22 °C. The processes comprise electrostatic interaction, trapping of atrazine within mesopores, and multi-layer adsorption of atrazine on surface-adsorbed atrazine. The equilibrium data fitted the Langmuir adsorption isotherm model better than the Freundlich. The SBA-15-NH2 adsorption capacity for atrazine and glyphosate was better than many adsorbents reported in literature, the adsorbent is reusable, and exhibited sustained efficiencies for atrazine that was ≥82% even after 3-cycles, an indication of chemical stability and renewability.

Graphical abstract: Isolation of aqueous pesticides on surface-functionalized SBA-15: glyphosate kinetics and detailed empirical insights for atrazine

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 Sept. 2023
Accepted
18 Dec. 2023
First published
19 Dec. 2023

Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024,26, 323-333

Isolation of aqueous pesticides on surface-functionalized SBA-15: glyphosate kinetics and detailed empirical insights for atrazine

P. N. Diagboya, J. Junck, S. O. Akpotu and R. Düring, Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, 26, 323 DOI: 10.1039/D3EM00425B

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