Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
Volume 149, Issue -, Pages 127-139Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.01.200
Keywords
U(VI) removal; Kinetics; Isotherms
Funding
- Project of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Radioactive Contamination Control and Resources [2017B030314182]
- Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou, China [201804020072]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U1501231]
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Uranium (U(VI)) is radioactive and the primary raw material in the production of nuclear energy. Hence the research associated with uranium removal gained a lot of importance because to reduce the threat of uranium contamination to ecology and its environment surroundings. Thus, economically as well as environmentally friendly sorbents with a good sorption capacity have to be acquired for the removal of U(VI) pollutants from the aqueous and polluted sea samples. In this study magnetic- Momordica charantia leaf powder impregnated into chitosan (m-MCLPICS) was prepared through the impregnation method. After preparation the adsorbent undergone through various characterizations such as BET, XRD, FTIR, SEM with elemental mapping, and VSM analysis. The specific surface area (93.12 m(2)/g), pore size (0.212 cm(3)/g) and pore volume (15.35 nm) of m-MCLPICS was obtained from the BET analysis. A pH value of 5 and 0.5 g of adsorbent dose were selected as an optimum values for U(VI) removal. Kinetic data follows the pseudo-second-order model, and the equilibrium data fitted well with the Langmuir isotherm model. Delta G degrees (-1.6999, -2.4994, -3.5476 and -4.5147 kJ/mol), Delta H degrees (25.1 kJ/mol) and Delta S degrees (0.089 kJ/mol K) indicates that the U(VI) sorption process is feasible, spontaneous and endothermic. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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