Nano Crystal Cellulose Incorporated Poly Vinyl Alcohol (PVA) Hydrogel for Industrial Waste Water Treatment

• Main Authors: Zianor Azrina, Z. A., Beg, M. D. H., R. M., Yunus, Ridzuan, Ramli
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: AENSI Publishing 2017
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/15735/2/Nano%20Crystal%20Cellulose%20Incorporated%20Poly%20Vinyl%20Alcohol.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/15735/; http://www.ajbasweb.com/old/ajbas/2017/Special%20issue%20ICCEIB/137-142.pdf
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Pahang

In this work, nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) was extracted from raw oil palm empty fruit bunch (EFB) fiber. The NCC microstructure was evaluated by X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. Scanning electron microscope reveals the comparative surface morphology of raw EFB and NCC. The freeze-thawing cyclic process was applied to fabricate NCC incorporated polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) (NCC-PVA) hydrogel . The aim of this work is to improve removal capacity of methylene blue (MB) dye from industrial waste water using NCC incorporated PVA hydrogel. The gel fraction NCC-PVA hydrogel is lower as compared to neat PVA hydrogel. The NCC-PVA hydrogel was applied to remove the methylene blue (MB) dye from industrial waste water. The NCC enhanced the dye absorption capacity of NCC-PVA hydrogel as compared to neat PVA hydrogel.