Introduction: Safe drinking water is vital to all human and living organisms. Aim and Study Location: This study appraised untreated water within the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE) campus with a view to ascertaining their potability. Methodology: The s...
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Research Article10.9734/CSJI/2021/v30i430226
The wastewater containing nitrophenol compounds is discharged into the water and soil environment, causing severe environmental pollution problems. In this paper, a one-step anodic potential step method involving Au(I) disproportionation was used to prepare nanoporous gold (D-NPG...
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Research Article10.9734/CSJI/2021/v30i430225
Biomass-based activated carbon has received large attention due to its excellent characteristics such as inexpensiveness, good absorption behaviour, and potential to reduce strong dependence towards non-renewable precursors. The potential use of Palm Kernel Shell in modified acti...
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Research Article10.9734/CSJI/2021/v30i430224
The solubility and distribution coefficient (K) of solute in solvent is depends on temperature and solute-solvent interaction, where the solute is partitioned between two immiscible solvents phase and dissociated into ionic form. Here, we have reported the titrimetric study for s...
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Research Article10.9734/CSJI/2021/v30i330223
Background: Kinetic and thermodynamic studies of the extraction of oils from pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds and Moringa seeds have been carried out at temperatures of 56 and 54°C. The extraction process was found to be exothermic and the kinetic constants in the three cases determin...
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Research Article10.9734/CSJI/2021/v30i330222
The use of synthetic pesticides to alleviate the notorious weeds in farms has caused environmental pollution, consumption of chemicals absorbed by plants and resistance posed by the weeds putting agricultural development and ecological systems under threat. The main reason for st...
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Research Article10.9734/CSJI/2021/v30i330221
The presence of dyes in aquatic effluents is highly visible, undesirable, carcinogenic to human beings and toxic to living organisms. EDTAD modified cellulose extracted from Pennisetum purpureum was studied as an adsorbent for the removal of cationic dyes from spiked waste-water....
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Research Article10.9734/CSJI/2021/v30i330219
Amine El Farrouji, Rachid Mohamed Tchalala, Abderrahim Chihab Eddine, Ahmad Mehdi, Larbi El Firdoussi & Mustapha Ait Ali·Chemical Science International Journal·2021
Nanostructured ZnO was prepared using a facile solution-phase method at room temperature without need to calcination. Oxidation of zinc sulfate by sodium hypochlorite in the presence of polyethylene glycol (PEG) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH) gave pure nanostructured zinc oxide (ZnO...
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Research Article10.9734/CSJI/2021/v30i330220
Biopolymer (chitosan) was isolated from crab shell waste through the processes of demineralization, deproteinization, decolourization and deacetylation. The resulting chitosan (CHS) was further treated with silver nitrate (AgNO3) solution at various concentrations (0.5, 1.0 and 1...
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Research Article10.9734/CSJI/2021/v30i230218
Degradation kinetics and color removal of 2-(4-hydroxyphenylazo)benzoic acid azo dye by the hydrogen peroxide/ultraviolet irradiation and sodium hypochlorite/ultraviolet irradiation processes were carried out in Spectroline CM-10A Model ENF-260C/FE photoreactor which has ultravio...
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Research Article10.9734/CSJI/2021/v30i230217