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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 229, Issue -, Pages 321-330Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2012.06.004
Keywords
Uranium(VI); Hydrothermal carbon; Salicylideneimine; Selective adsorption; Nuclear industrial effluent
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [20871086, 21171122]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [KJCX2-YW-N50-3]
- Institute of Chemical Engineering and Material, China Academy of Engineering Physics [HG2010040]
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A new salicylideneimine-functionalized hydrothermal-carbon-based solid-phase extractant was developed for the purpose of separating uranium selectively for sustainability of uranium resources. The resulting adsorption material was obtained via hydrothermal carbonization, calcination at mild temperature (573.15 K), amination, and grafting with salicylaldehyde in sequence. Both Fourier transform infrared spectra and elemental analysis proved the successful grafting of salicylideneimine onto hydrothermal carbon matrix. Adsorption behaviors of the extractant on uranium(VI) were investigated by varying pH values of solution, adsorbent amounts, contact times, initial metal concentrations, temperatures, and ionic strengths. An optimum adsorption capacity of 1.10 mmol g(-1) (261 mg g(-1)) for uranium(VI) was obtained at pH 4.3. The present adsorption process obeyed pseudo-second-order model and Langmuir isotherm. Thermodynamic parameters (Delta H = +8.81 kJ mol(-1), Delta S = +110 J K-1 mol(-1), Delta G = -23.0 kJ mol-1) indicated the adsorption process was endothermic and spontaneous. Results from batch adsorption test in simulated nuclear industrial effluent, containing Cs+, Sr2+, Ba2+, Mn2+, Co2+, Ni2+, Zn2+, La3+, Ce3+, Nd3+, Sm3+, and Gd3+, showed the adsorbent could separate uranium(VI) from those competitive ions with high selectivity. The adsorbent might be promising for use in certain key steps in any future sustainable nuclear fuel cycle. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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