Camphor Oil-Derived Carbon Nanofibers for Textile Effluent Treatment: Synthesis and Characterization

Abstract

Nowadays, population is increasing globally, because of this there is increase in industries to satisfied the needs of people. While considering types of wastewaters, Industrial wastewater plays a major role in environmental pollution as compared to domestic wastewater. Recently easy and ecological way to synthesize carbon nanomaterial has been increasing. This study involves synthesis of Carbon nano fibres (CNFs) using Camphor oil and characterised by using XRD, SEM, Surface area analyser, TGA, FTIR. CNFs synthesized from camphor oil at 800°C using cobalt catalyst in presence of inert atmosphere. This CNF are used for the treatment of textiles effluents and improves quality of water. The purified CNF having surface area of 35.33 m2/gm which adsorbs the heavy metals, dyes and some organic impurities which helps to improve quality of water and effecting the concentration level of BOD, COD, TDS and conductivity. This experiment helps and contributes to reduce contaminant level of textile effluent water by using CNFs.