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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 183, Issue 1-3, Pages 233-241Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2010.07.016
Keywords
Chitosan; Epichlorohydrin; Triphosphate; Adsorption; Desorption
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- Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento-CNPq, Brazil
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In this study, chitosan (CTS) was crosslinked with both epichlorohydrin (ECH) and triphosphate (TPP), by covalent and ionic crosslinking, respectively. The resulting new CTS-ECH-TPP adsorbent was characterized by CHN analysis, EDS. FTIR spectroscopy, TGA and DSC, and the adsorption and desorption of Cu(II), Cd(II) and Pb(II) ions in aqueous solution were investigated. Potentiometric studies were also performed and revealed three titratable protons for each pK(d) value of 5.14, 6.76 and 9.08. The results obtained showed that the optimum pH values for adsorption were 6.0 for Cu(II), 7.0 for Cd(II) and 5.0 for Pb(II). The kinetics study demonstrated that the adsorption process proceeded according to the pseudo-second-order model. Three isotherm models (Langmuir, Freundlich and Dubinin-Radushkevich) were employed in the analysis of the adsorption equilibrium data. The Langmuir model resulted in the best fit and the new adsorbent had maximum adsorption capacities for Cu(II), Cd(II) and Pb(II) ions of 130.72, 83.75 and 166.94 mg g(-1) respectively. Desorption studies revealed that HNO3 and HCI were the best eluents for desorption of Cu(II), Cd(II) and Pb(II) ions from the crosslinked chitosan. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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