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ULTRASONICS SONOCHEMISTRY
Volume 40, Issue -, Pages 533-542Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2017.07.045
Keywords
Cd(II) adsorption; Poly(vinyl alcohol); MCM-41; Ultrasonic-assisted; Kinetic and isotherm; Green adsorbent
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- Research Affairs Division Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Isfahan
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Amino-modified MCM-41/poly(vinyl alcohol) nanocomposite (M-MCM-41/PVOH NC) was developed for the adsorption of Cd(II) from aqueous media. M-MCM-41/PVOH NC was prepared through ultrasonic-assisted and simple blending procedure with economical and environmentally friendly polymer. The as-prepared adsorbent was characterized by FT-IR, TEM, FE-SEM and TGA. The contact time, solution pH and initial concentration of Cd(II) were found to affect the adsorption of Cd(II) from aqueous media. Kinetic studies were carried out and pseudo-first-order (PFO), pseudo-second-order (PSO), Elovich, and intra-particle diffusion (IPD) reaction kinetic models were examined. The kinetic results revealed that the adsorption of Cd(II) onto M-MCM-41/PVOH NC followed PSO kinetic model and is a chemical adsorption. The equilibrium adsorption data were evaluated by different isotherms viz. Langmuir, Freundlich, and Dubinin Radushkevich (D-R) equations. The equilibrium data fitted better with the Langmuir isotherm and the maximum adsorption capacity of M-MCM-41/PVOH NC at 298 K was calculated to be 46.73 mg g(-1) for Cd(II) on a typical saturated monomolecular layer with a fixed number of localized adsorption sites.
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