Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 121, Issue -, Pages 386-395Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2012.06.119
Keywords
Garden grass; Copper(II); Adsorption; Desorption; Equilibrium; Kinetics
Funding
- Research Theme of Sustainable Water: Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technologies, Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater (CTWW), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
- UTS
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The garden grass (CC) was firstly used to remove copper(II) from water as bioadsorbent. From the results of characterisation, the GG had the merits of high specific surface area, significant adsorption sites and functional groups. Copper-adsorption significantly depends on the initial copper concentrations, contact time, pH, adsorbent doses, particle sizes and temperature. The positive values of Delta G degrees indicates that the adsorption of copper onto garden grass is non-spontaneous and values lies within the ranges of 4.452-13.660 kJ/mol for supporting physical adsorption. 0.1 N H2SO4 was found as suitable eluent, which could be used 5 cycles of adsorption-desorption. The data from adsorption and desorption equilibrium were well fitted by the Langmuir, SIPS and Redlich-Peterson isotherm models. The maximum adsorption and desorption capacities were 58.34 and 319.03 mg/g, respectively, for 1 g dose. Adsorption and desorption kinetics could be described by the Pseudo-first-order model. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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