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Cellulose based electrospun nanofilters: perspectives on tannery effluent waste water treatment

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Development of nanofilters with the ability to remove toxic metal ions from effluent wastewater will be of immense help to the leather industry. In this study, fibrous nanofilter (FNF) was prepared using microfibrillated cellulose and tea leaf microparticles blended in poly (vinyl) alcohol. FNF was analysed for its efficacy to remove hazardous metals from tannery effluent wastewater. The FNF had promising traits of tensile strength (19.24 + 0.05 Mpa), elongation at break (22.31 + 0.12%), flexibility (10.88 + 0.05%), water absorption (37.86 + 0.14%) and desorption (32.54 + 0.33%). The metal adsorption studies clearly reflected the removal of toxic Cr (VI) ions from the effluent water by FNF. The study establishes an economically feasible and highly efficient way to remove hazardous metal ions from effluent wastewater.

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Dr. Senthil Rethinam acknowledges the funding support granted by the 2232-International Fellowship for Outstanding Researcher Program of TUBITAK (Project No: 118C350).

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  1. Graduate School of Natural and Applied Science, Ege University, 35100, Bornova-Izmir, Turkey

    Senthil Rethinam

  2. School of Bio and Chemical Engineering, Sathyabama University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, 600 199, India

    Senthil Rethinam

  3. Department of Chemistry, Ege University, 35100, Bornova-Izmir, Turkey

    Serdar Batıkan Kavukcu

  4. Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, CSIR - CLRI, Chennai, 600 020, India

    Thiagarajan Hemalatha

  5. California University of Science and Medicine, 217 E Club Centre Dr suite a, San Bernardino, CA, 92408, USA

    A. Wilson Aruni

  6. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ege University, 35100, Bornova-Izmir, Turkey

    Aylin Sendemir & Cem Türkay

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Rethinam, S., Kavukcu, S.B., Hemalatha, T. et al. Cellulose based electrospun nanofilters: perspectives on tannery effluent waste water treatment. Cellulose 29, 1969–1980 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-022-04420-0

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