Cellulosic biomass biocomposites with polyaniline, polypyrrole and sodium alginate: Insecticide adsorption-desorption, equilibrium and kinetics studies

Abstract This work was designed to synthesize and characterize biocomposites for the adsorptive elimination of insecticide (nitenpyram). Different biocomposites were synthesized of polyaniline (PAN-PH), polypyrrole (PPY-PH) and sodium alginate (Na-Al-PH) with cellulosic biomass of peanut husk (PH), which was characterized fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), pHpzc and scanning electron microscope (SEM). In batch mode, different variables, i.e., contact time, pH, temperature, NP (nitenpyram) concentration and adsorbent dose effects were investigated. The adsorption capacities of PH, PAN-PH, PPY-PH and Na-Al-PH were recorded to be 13.0, 14.43, 13.61 and 11.91 (mg/g), respectively at 30 °C, 60 min contact time, 0.05 g and 2.0 pH. Pseudo second order kinetic and Freundlich isotherm models best explained the NP adsorption data. An exothermic adsorption nature of NP adsorption was observed on to PH, PAN-PH, PPY-PH and Na-Al-PH. The NP desorption was efficient with NaOH and biocomposites are competent for the adsorptive removal of NP, which can utilized for NP remediation in effluents.