Journal
WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION
Volume 226, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-015-2615-z
Keywords
Antimony; Electrocoagulation; Response surface methodology; Kinetics; Isotherms; Thermodynamics
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51378189, 51578223]
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In this study, electrocoagulation (EC) with hybrid Fe-Al electrodes was used to remove antimony from contaminated surface water. Response surface methodology was applied to investigate the interactive effects of the operating parameters on antimony removal and optimize these variables. Results showed that the relationship between operating parameters and the response was well described by a second-order polynomial equation. Under the optimal conditions of current density 2.58 mA/cm(2), pH 5.24, initial concentration 521.3 mu g/L, and time 89.17 min, more than 99 % antimony were removed. Besides, the antimony adsorption behavior in EC process was also investigated. Adsorption kinetics and isotherms studies suggested that the adsorption process followed well the pseudo-second-order kinetic model and the Langmuir adsorption model, respectively. Adsorption thermodynamics study revealed that the reaction was spontaneous, endothermic, and thermodynamically favorable. These results further proved that the main mechanism involved in antimony removal in EC process could be chemisorption.
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