In collaboration with Payame Noor University and Iranian Chemical Science and Technologies Association

Document Type : Full research article

Authors

1 Department of Marine Chemistry, Faculty of Marine Science, Chabahar Maritime University, P.O. Box 98617-85553, Chabahar, Iran

2 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran

3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Marine Engineering, Chabahar Maritime University, Chabahar, Iran

Abstract

This paper describes trace determination of malachite green (MG) as a water pollutant dye by convenient spectrophotometry. A water-soluble hyper-branched polyamine was first prepared using the nuclophilic ring opening reaction of diepoxy and diamine monomer, which was then used for functionalization of multiwalled carbon nanotubes. This compound (named WHPA-OMCNT) was applied as a highly efficient adsorbent for the extraction of MG from seawater samples of Chabahar Bay (located in the southern east of Iran). WHPA-OMCNT was used in a pipette-tip solid phase extraction process; and for this extraction, different parameters affecting the extraction efficiency, including type and volume of eluent solvent, sample of volume, number of cycles of extraction and elution, pH of sample solution, type and amount of salt, and concentration of surfactant (triton X-114) were optimized using both one-variable-at-a-time and Box-Behnken response surface methodology techniques employing seven factors in three-levels. Under optimum conditions, the linear range of proposed method for MG was 4-250 µg L-1 with a detection limit of 0.80 µg L-1 and RSDs better than 6.4%. 

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