Utilized Physical Materials Nanotechnology for Heavy Water Separation and Purification

Authors

  • Rafid S. Hameed Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59992/IJSR.2026.v5n10p7

Keywords:

Heavy Water Treatment, Nanotechnology, Nanomaterials, Water Purification and Wastewater Remediation

Abstract

The weighty water (D2O) is secondhand in basic industry, isotope result, and in different complicated commerces. The water secondhand in the process can be adulterated accompanying burdensome metals, natural resources, salts, active elements, and organic elements. Conventional sciences secondhand for the discharge of the contaminants from the severe water are preferably useless, strength absorbing, and involve big quantities of chemical compound. The current item reviews the use of nanotechnology for killing contaminators from heavy water. The item resolves the standard valuable, field of request, and effectiveness of differing nanomaterials in the way that element nanotubes, graphene group of chemical elements membranes, titanium dioxide nanoparticles, white nanoparticles, nanoparticles of magnetic iron group of chemical elements, and zeolite nanocomposites. These fabrics maybe secondhand through the use of nanofiltration, adsorption, photocatalytic, drawing, and electrochemical oxidation processes. According to the results of the experiments, the use of nanotechnology develops the status of weighty water. The aggregation of difficult metals decreased from 15 to 0.5 ppm (96.7% relocation). Organic dyes cut down from 120 to 8 mg/L (93.3% deportation) and amount of microorganisms dropped by a factor of 10⁴ what resources that the microorganisms were detached accompanying 99.99% effectiveness. The turbidity was decreased from 45 NTU to 2 NTU (clear water) while synthetic oxygen demand and total disappeared mass declined by 88.6% and 83.3%, individually. It means that nanotechnology maybe effective electronics for water cleansing from miscellaneous kinds of contaminators.

Author Biography

  • Rafid S. Hameed

    Assistant Lecturer, Department of Physics, College of Education for Pure Sciences, Tikrit University, Iraq

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2026-10-21

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Utilized Physical Materials Nanotechnology for Heavy Water Separation and Purification. (2026). The International Journal for Scientific Research, 5(10). https://doi.org/10.59992/IJSR.2026.v5n10p7