Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
Volume 145, Issue -, Pages 535-546Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.12.188
Keywords
Gellan gum; Carboxymethyl konjac glucomannan; Uranium
Funding
- Science and Technology Department of Qinghai Province [2015-SF-119]
- Longshan Academic Talent Research Support Plan of Southwest University of Science and Technology [17LZX302]
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Biosorbents have been a promising adsorbent to remove uranium while their poor mechanical properties prevent them from being widely used in practice. In this study, carboxymethyl konjac glucomannan (CMKGM) was incorporated to gellan gum to form a double-network gel micro spheres (CMKGM/GG-Al) for uranium removal with its mechanical strength fairly being reinforced. The compressive strength of the CMKGM/GG-Al microspheres was about 6 times than that of GG-Ca microspheres we prepared before while the adsorption capacity still be at a better value with the fitting maximum adsorption capacity being of 97.94 mg/g. Its uranium adsorption properties were investigated by considering the influence of pH, the adsorbent dosage, temperature, initial uranium concentration, time and coexisting ions. The adsorption mechanism was also investigated according to the SEM, EDX, FT-IR and XPS data analysis. The isotherm equilibrium data which were best fitted with Langmuir model and the kinetics data which were best fitted with pseudo-second-order model. It was inferred that the adsorption process was mainly the ion-exchange and the coordination with hydroxyl groups on the adsorbent surface and the adsorption process was endothermic and spontaneous. The CMKGM/GG-Al microspheres prepared in this study would be more conducive to practical application for uranium removal.
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