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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 161, Issue 1-2, Pages 73-82Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.04.030
Keywords
Modified chitosan; Adsorption isotherm; Metal removal; EDTA; DTPA; Binary system
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- European Commission (Brussels) [MTKD-CT-2006-042637]
- Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (TEKES)
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The aim of the present study was to investigate the adsorption properties of surface modified chitosans in the aqueous solutions containing Co(II) and/or Ni(II) ions. For this purpose, the ligands of ethylene-diaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) or diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA) were immobilized onto polymer matrices of chitosan. Adsorption of Co(II) and Ni(II) by prepared adsorbents was investigated in batch techniques. The effects of pH, functional group, contact time, and the concentration of metals were studied. Metal uptake by EDTA-chitosan was 63.0 mg g(-1) for Co(II) and 71.0 mg g(-1) for Ni(II) and by DTPA-chitosan 49.1 mg g(-1) for Co(II) and 53.1 mg g(-1) for Ni(II). The adsorption efficiency of studied adsorbents ranged from 93.6% to 99.5% from 100 mg L-1 Co(II) and/or Ni(II) solution, when the adsorbent close was 2 g L-1 and solution pH 2.1. The kinetics of Co(II) and Ni(II) on both of the modified chitosans followed the pseudo-second-order model but the adsorption rate was also influenced by intraparticle diffusion. The equilibrium data was best described by the Sips isotherm and its extended form was also well fitted to the two-component data obtained for systems containing different ratios of Co(II) and Ni(II). Nevertheless, the obtained modeling results indicated relatively homogenous system for Co(II) and heterogeneous system for Ni(II) adsorption. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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