International Science Community Association Research Journal of Recent Sciences 2277 - 2502 6 4 2017 04 2 Scavenging of phenolic compounds from aqueous waste using magnetic nanoparticles activated carbon prepared from date seed 18 27 EN Ghani Tuba 1 Comsats Institute of Information Technology Lahore, Pakistan M. Chaithra 1 Department of Botany, St. Joseph College, Devagiri, Kozhikode - 673008, Kerala, India Thomas Binu 2 Department of Botany, St. Joseph College, Devagiri, Kozhikode - 673008, Kerala, India Rafat Qudsiya 1 Department of Biochemistry, Shri Shivaji College of Arts, Commerce and Science, Akola, MS, India Khan Nazia D. 2 Department of Biochemistry, Shri Shivaji College of Arts, Commerce and Science, Akola, MS, India Khan Zia H. 3 Department of Biochemistry, Shri Shivaji College of Arts, Commerce and Science, Akola, MS, India Mular S.M. 4 Department of Biochemistry, Shri Shivaji College of Arts, Commerce and Science, Akola, MS, India Farhat Sadiya 5 Department of Biochemistry, Shri Shivaji College of Arts, Commerce and Science, Akola, MS, India Jaiswal Rinku 1 CIMFR Nagpur Unit-II, 17/C-Telenkhedi area, Civil Lines, Nagpur-440001, MS, India Singh Shripal 2 CIMFR Nagpur Unit-II, 17/C-Telenkhedi area, Civil Lines, Nagpur-440001, MS, India Pande Hemant 3 Hislop College, Civil Lines, Nagpur, MS, India > Research Paper 2017 1 14 2017 04 2 Phenol and its derivatives constitute a group of pollutants that are present in industrial and domestic wastewater and carcinogenic in nature. Adsorption on Magnetic nanoparticles activated carbon (MNAC) has emerged an efficient and economically viable technology for removal of toxic phenolic compounds from domestic and industrial wastewater. In the present study activated carbon (AC) is prepared from date seed using KOH in a modified muffle furnace. The magnetic nanoparticles activated carbon (MNAC) is prepared by combining this activated carbon with magnetic nanoparticles developed by coprecipitation method. A variety of techniques such as N2-BET surface area, SEM, FT-IR, XRD, TEM, pH pzc and VSM were used to characterize the structure, morphology and magnetic performance of MNAC. The N2-BET surface area of the MNAC (894 m2g-1) is found lesser than the prepared AC (2298 m2g-1). A broad peak at 2& Copyright@ International Science Community Association 952; = 240 in XRD of AC & MNAC indicates the presence of amorphous carbon. The TEM of MNAC shows iron oxide nanoparticles of size 5-20 nm. MNAC exhibits super magnetic properties under external magnetic field with saturation magnetization value 5.52 emu/g at room temperature. The adsorption of priority phenolic pollutants namely phenol p-nitrophenol o-chlorophenol o-methoxy phenol on activated carbon and magnetic nanoparticles activated carbon was studied in a batch system at laboratory scale. The adsorption equilibrium isotherm data shows good linearity when plotted according to Langmuir Freundlich and BET isotherm equations. The Langmuir Q0 value for AC & MNAC show the trend: OCP> PNP > OMP >P. Langmuir kinetic model best suits for determination of adsorption and desorption rate constants for these pollutants. The Pseudo-second order model fit better than Pseudo-first order model for the adsorption of organic pollutants onto AC and MNAC.