osting by E Abstract A simple spectrophotometric method was developed for the simultaneous determination of five commercial cationic dyes at 2.0 8.5 lg L 1 level after using diatomite as solid-phase extractant. The method is based on preconcentration of the five dyes on natural diatomite solid-phase extractant and on multivariate calibration using partial least squares method (PLS-1). Compared ...

Waste utilization has gained more and more interest. In this study, crumb rubber and diatomite were used to modify asphalt binder and the short-term aging effects on the properties of modified asphalts were evaluated. Three kinds of modified asphalt were prepared; they are diatomite modified asphalt (DA), crumb rubber modified asphalt (RA), and diatomite and crumb rubber compound modified aspha...

The adsorption of 1-naphthol (NAP) in aqueous solution was investigated using unmodified and modified diatomite at different temperature, pH, adsorbent mass and contact time. The adsorption capacity of the modified diatomite significantly improved (about 2 times at 298 K) compared to the unmodified diatomite. The adsorption showed a good fit with the Langmuir model. The further data analysis de...

Diatomite (diatomaceous earth) and clay minerals deposits from the mining basin Kolubara, Serbia, are natural materials with high economic potential in many fields. As received treated materials, diatomite were characterized using X-ray diffraction, mercury intrusion porosimetry, particle size distribution, scanning electron microscopy, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. Activity concentr...

This paper presents a study on the adsorption of basic dye, methylene blue, from an aqueous solution onto diatomaceous earth (diatomite). The effect of initial dye concentrations, adsorbent particle size and concentration, and agitation speed on adsorption was investigated. Adsorption isotherms obtained at different solutions temperatures revealed an irreversible adsorption with a capacity of 4...

Diatomite consists of fossilized remains of ancient diatoms and is a type of naturally abundant photonic crystal biosilica with multiple unique physical and chemical functionalities. In this paper, we explored the fluidic properties of diatomite as the matrix for on-chip chromatography and, simultaneously, the photonic crystal effects to enhance the plasmonic resonances of metallic nanoparticle...

Diatomite at Lompoc, California. Johns-Manville Corporation (1964) mines some of the large diatomite deposits laid down in Santa Barbara County in the middle to upper Miocene (5-25 million y.a). Many of the current coastal regions, including those now occupied by Los Angeles and San Francisco, were then under the sea. The Lompoc area was probably an archipelago or series of shallow bays and bet...

A series of novel composite phase change materials (PCMs) were tailored by blending PEG and five kinds of diatomite via a vacuum impregnation method. To enlarge its pore size and specific surface area, different modification approaches including calcination, acid treatment, alkali leaching and nano-silica decoration on the microstructure of diatomite were outlined. Among them, 8 min of 5 wt% Na...

Fly ash is an important waste, produced in thermal power plants which causes very important environmental pollutions. For this reason the usage and evaluation the fly ash in various areas are very important. Nearly, 15 million tons/year of fly ash is produced in Turkey. In this study, usage of fly ash with diatomite and molasses for heavy metal (Cd) adsorption from wastewater is investigated. T...

TiO(2) colloids with the most probably particle size of 10 nm were deposited on the surface of macroporous diatomite by a layer-by-layer (LBL) assembly method with using phytic acid as molecular binder. For preparation of colloidal TiO(2), titanium(IV) isopropoxide (Ti(C(3)H(7)O)(4)) was used as titanium precursor, nitric acid (HNO(3)) as peptizing agent and deionized water and isopropanol (C(3...