Journal
WATER ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH
Volume 84, Issue 9, Pages 753-760Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.2175/106143012X13373550427318
Keywords
molybdenum; zeolite-supported magnetite nanoparticles; adsorption; wastewater treatment; molybdate; oxyanions
Funding
- Slovak Research and Development Agency [APVV-0252-10]
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Industrial wastewater may contain high molybdenum concentrations, making treatment before discharge necessary. In this paper, the removal of molybdate anions from water is presented, using clinoptilolite zeolite coated with magnetite nanoparticles. In batch experiments the influence of pH, ionic strength, possible interfering (oxy)anions, temperature and contact time is investigated. Besides determination of kinetic parameters and adsorption isotherms, thermodynamic modeling is performed to get better insight into the adsorption mechanism; molybdenum is assumed to be adsorbed as a FeOMoO2(OH)center dot 2H(2)O inner-sphere complex. At the optimum pH of 3, the adsorption capacity is around 18 mg molybdenum per gram adsorbent. The ionic strength of the solution has no influence on the adsorption capacity. Other anions, added to the molybdenum solution in at least a tenfold excess, only have a minor influence on the adsorption of molybdenum, with the exception of phosphate. Adsorption increases when temperature is increased. It is demonstrated that the adsorbent can be used to remove molybdenum from industrial wastewater streams, and that the limitations set by the World Health Organization (residual concentration of 70 mu g/l Mo) can easily be met. Water Environ. Res., 84, 753 (2012).
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