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Fly ash adsorbents for multi-cation wastewater treatment

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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 258, Issue 17, Pages 6345-6352

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ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2012.03.035

Keywords

Fly ash; Heavy metals; Adsorption; Wastewater treatment

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  1. Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development (SOP HRD)
  2. European Social Fund
  3. Romanian Government [POSDRU ID 59323]

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Class F fly ash (FA), collected from the Central Heat and Power (CHP) Plant Brasov (Romania), with oxides composition SiO2/Al2O3 over 2.4 proved good adsorbent properties, and was further used for obtaining a new substrate with good adsorption capacity for heavy metals from multi-cation wastewater treatment. Firstly, the new adsorbent was characterized by AFM, XRD, DSC, FTIR and the surface energy was evaluated by contact angle measurements. The experimental data suggested that the new type of substrate is predominant crystalline with highly polar surface. The substrate was used for removing the Pb2+, Cd2+ and Zn2+ cations from mixed solutions. The results show high efficiency and selective adsorption the Pb2+ and Zn2+ cations. The optimized adsorption parameters were further used in thermodynamic and kinetic studies of the adsorption processes. The Langmuir and Freundlich models were used to describe the processes. The pseudo-second order kinetics could well model all the processes, indicating a surface concentration of the adsorption sites with the same order of magnitude as the cation concentrations. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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