Journal of Material Sciences & Engineering

Joshua Lelesi Konne

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• Research Article
  Demetallization of Nickel from Crude Oil using Aluminum Oxide (Al₂O₃) Nanoparticles Synthesized with Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate (SDS)
  Author(s): Joshua Lelesi Konne, Iheanetu UD and Cookey AGJoshua Lelesi Konne, Iheanetu UD and Cookey AG
  
  Aluminum oxide nanoparticles (Al2O3+SDS and Al2O3) were synthesized by a simple sol-gel method for demetallization of nickel from crude oil-water mixture in a batch adsorption process for the first time. The samples were dried, calcined at 550°C, cooled and characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), and X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques. The XRD confirmed that Al2O3 phase were synthesized with more minor impurities of bauxite and silica in Al2O3 without SDS. Particle size estimations were 197 and 183 nm for the Al2O3 with and without SDS, respectively. SEM showed larger rectangular porous crystallites and thinner netlike- vertical platy crystallites for the former and later samples respectively while the EDS confirmed the presence of Al and O in them. The batch adsorption showed that the %Removal (%R) of the adsorption process in.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2169-0022.1000385

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