Document Type : Research note

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1 Chemical Engineering Faculty, Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran

2 Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran

Abstract

In this work, for eliminating the (RR1346), considered to be a waste in wastewater from dye industries electrochemical advanced oxidation process has been used. Graphene oxide coated carbon cloth (GO/CC) and Fe3O4 /GO coated carbon cloth (Fe3O4/GO/CC) electrodes has been fabricated by synthesized GO and Fe3O4 nanoparticles. Characteristic properties such as surface morphology as the main reason of utilizing Fe2O3/GO/CC as electrodes has been investigated determined by various instrumental analysis including, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM), Cyclic Voltammetry (CV), Cathodic polarization, and also for investigating the process yield by utilization of mentioned electrodes, UV-vis spectrophotometric analysis has been used to determine dye concentration in sample waste water, after comparing fabricated electrodes removal efficiency in same time intervals, by determining the concentration of RR1346 dye in samples after oxidation process in different time intervals, results indicated better removal efficiency Fe3O4/GO/CC fabricated electrode than the other two electrodes, which this conclusion was proved by AFM,FESEM and UV-vis results.

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