Nano clay Ni/NiO nanocomposite new sorbent for separation and preconcentration dibenzothiophene from crude prior to UV–vis spectrophotometery determination

In this work, Ni/Ni nanoparticles were immobilized on modified nanoclay then, the resultant nanocomposite was used as a sorbent for separation of dibenzothiophene. The concentration of dibenzothiophene was determined with UV–vis spectrophotometry at 287 nm. Different parameters affecting the separation of dibenzothiophene such as: the ratio of Ni/NiO nanoparticles to nanoclay, amounts of Ni/NiO nanoparticles and nanoclay, stirring time of dibenzothiophene solution on the sorbent, type of eluent, eluent volume, elution time, stirring time for preparing the sorbent were optimized. The obtained results were shown quantitative desorption of dibenzothiophene performed using ethanol as eluent. A linear concentration range of 0.5–15 mg/L was obtained with a detection limit of 0.047 mg/mL. The sorbent capacity was found to be 32 mg/g. Relative standard deviation was ±1.4 for six replicated determination of 5 mg/g of dibenzothiophene. The optimized procedure was successfully used for a crude oil sample.