Green synthesis of graphene using leaf extracts as sustainable reducing and capping agents is a thrust area of research owing to its simplicity, eco-friendly nature and the ease of access to graphene. Moringa (Moringa oleifera Lam) plant is widely cultivated in India owing to its important medicinal and nutritional values. Inspired by these reports, herein we report a simple, green and economic synthesis of graphene, Moringa leaf extract employed reduced graphene oxide (MRGO) with excellent dye removal efficiencies. The MRGO is prepared by refluxing a mixture of aqueous dispersion of graphene oxide and Moringa leaf extract for 10 h. Further, we elucidated the role of synthesized MRGO in the removal of methylene blue (MB) and rhodamine B (RB) dyes through the sonochemical method. This as-synthesized material exhibited excellent dye removal efficiencies of about 93% and 87% against MB and RB dyes, respectively. Graphene with huge surface area expedited the better adsorption of dye molecules, thus, facilitated the better removal of the latter. Therefore, the superior dye removal efficiencies of MRGO were attributed to its adsorption capacity. This cost-effective synthetic approach of MRGO nanomaterial has a great potential for the innovative applications in water purification technology and find its place in further industrialization.

막 결합형 축전식 탈염공정에서 이온교환막의 이온교환용량이 염 제거 효율에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위해 poly(vinyl alcohol)(PVA) 수용성 고분자에 sulfosuccinic acid (SSA) 가교제를 첨가하고 poly(4-styrene sulfonic acid-co-maleic acid)(PSSA_MA)를 PVA 질량대비 10, 50, 90 wt%로 달리 첨가하여 제조하였다. PSSA_MA의 함량이 증가함에 따라 함수율과 이온교환용량이 증가하는 경향을 나타내었으며 막 결합형 축전식 탈염공정에서 염 제거 효율도 상승되었다. PSSA_MA 90 wt%, 100 mg/L NaCl의 공급액과 유속 15 mL/min에서 흡착 1.4 V/5분의 조건에서 가장 높은 65.5%의 염 제거 효율을 나타내었다.

The study describes the results of batch experiments on the removal of Reactive Yellow 15 (RY15) and Reactive Black 5 (RB5) from synthetic textile wastewater onto Activated Carbon from Walnut shell (ACW). The experimental data were analyzed by the Langmuir, Freundlish, Temkin and Dubinin-Radushkevich (D-R) models of adsorption. The experiments were carried out as function of initial concentrations, pH, temperature (303-333), adsorbent dose and kinetics. The surface area and pore volumes of adsorbent were measured by BET and BJH methods. The findings confirm the surface area (BET) is 248.99 m2/g. The data fitted well with the Temkin and D-R isotherms for RY15 and RB5, respectively. The most favorable adsorption occurred in acidic pH. Pseudo-second order kinetic model were best in agreement with adsorption of RY15 and RB5 on ACW. The results indicate that walnut shell could be an alternative to more costly adsorbent currently being used for dyes removal.

농업생태계의 환경별로 깔따구류의 분포를 밝히고 우점종을 이용한 유기물 분해능을 평가하고자 대단위경작지, 친환경농업지, 생활하수 유입지, 축산폐수 유입지 및 주변수로 등의 5개 서식처별로 나누어 '04~'06년까지 각 구획을 대표하는 총 78개 지점에서 깔따구과 및 공서 무척추동물을 정량 채집하였다. 그 결과, 농업지대의 깔따구류는 총 16종으로 동정되었다. 서식지 유형별로 출현한 종수를 보면, 축산폐수 유입지에서 11종, 대단위 농경지는 8종,