Sustainable development of nanomaterial from upcycling of waste plastic for interfacial solar desalination | Abstract Book on International Conference on Food and Applied Sciences (ICFAS-23) 3-5 August 23 2023

Author(s)

Muzammil Hussain Department of Molecular Sci. & Nanosystems, Ca Foscari University of Venice, Italy; Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Italy

Silvia Gross Department of Chemistry, University of Padova, Italy

E. Moretti Department of Molecular Sci. & Nanosystems, Ca Foscari University of Venice, Italy

A. Vomiero Department of Molecular Sci. & Nanosystems, Ca Foscari University of Venice, Italy

T. Ahmed Shifa Department of Molecular Sci. & Nanosystems, Ca Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Abstract

Shortage of fresh water and increasing plastic pollution have become the two most serious problems and they required a sustainable approach to mitigate. Solar desalination is a renewable method to produce fresh water and upcycling waste plastic into advanced nanomaterial providesa promising solution to decrease the impact of plastic waste on the environment. In the present research work waste plastic bottles were pyrolyzed to convert into carbon foam, and hydrothermal approaches were adopted to grow copper sulfide on synthesized carbon foam powder. Characterization techniques (XRD, SEM, and FTIR) revealed that porous graphitic-like carbon structure and successful copper sulfide growth on carbon foam, spectroscopy analysis showed excellent absorption of radiation in Uv/vis and near IR region. Solar evaporation experiment was completed under one sun radiation and it exhibit high solar to thermal conversion with maximum solar evaporation rate of 1.84 Kg m-2 h-1. Synthesized material can be used as solar steam generator while it helps to boost the practice of circular economy to start new life cycle for waste material.

Publication Details

Page(s) 352-352

DOI DOI not available

Published Journal: Abstract Book on International Conference on Food and Applied Sciences (ICFAS-23) 3-5 August 23, Volume: 0, Issue: 0, Year: 2023

Keywords

Nanomaterial Interfacial Solar Desalination

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