Journal
JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY
Volume 290, Issue 2, Pages 231-239Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10967-011-1336-z
Keywords
Cross-linking; Chitosan; Uranium; Biosorption; Isotherm; Kinetic
Funding
- Chinese Ministry of Education [211086]
- Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education [GJJ10493]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [20110490857]
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The cross-linked chitosan (CS) gels synthesized by using glutaraldehyde (GLA), epichlorohydrin (EC), and ethylene glycol diglycidyl ether (EGDE) as cross-linkers respectively were used to investigate the adsorption of U(VI) ions in an aqueous solution. The pure chitosan (PCS) and the cross-linked chitosan gels were characterized by FTIR and SEM analysis. The kinetic, thermodynamic adsorption and adsorption isotherms of U(VI) ions onto unmodified and modified cross-linked chitosan were studied in a batch adsorption experiments. The effect of pH, contact time and temperature on the adsorption capacity were also carried out. At the optimum pH, the maximum adsorbed amount of PCS, GLACS, ECCS and EGDECS were 483.05, 147.05, 344.83 and 67.56 mg/g, respectively. The uranium (VI) adsorption process of PCS and ECCS followed better with pseudo-second-order kinetic model, while GLACS and EGDECS followed pseudo-first-order kinetic model well. The results obtained from the equilibrium isotherms adsorption studied of U(VI) ions were analyzed in two adsorption models, namely, Langmuir and Freundlich isothms models, the results showed that the Langmuir isotherm had better conformity to the equilibrium data. The thermodynamic parameters such as enthalpy (Delta HA(0)), entropy (Delta SA(0)), and Gibbs free energy (Delta GA(0)) showed that the adsorption process was both spontaneous and endothermic.
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