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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 236, Issue -, Pages 9-16Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2013.09.064
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In situ polymerization; Membranes; Bi-functional groups; Uranium; Selectivity; Sorption kinetics
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Bi-functional membranes/sorbents have been prepared by anchoring cross-linked poly(ethylene glycol methacrylate phosphate-co-2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propane sulfonate) (poly(EGMP-co-AMPS)) in pores of the microporous substrates by in situ photo-polymerization. Thus prepared materials are found to sorb U(VI) from seawater (98%) as well as from 4 mol L-1 HNO3 (80%). The poly(EGMP-co-AMPS) (1:1) could be anchored 170 wt.% in grafted fibrous poly(propylene) membrane. This membrane is found to take up 200 wt.% water, and has U(VI) loading capacity 2.9 x 10(-3) mol g(-1). The metal ions sorption kinetics has been found to be dependent not only on physical structure of host substrate but also on proportion of EGMP and AMPS in the guest component poly(EGMP-co-AMPS). The competitive sorption of U(VI) and Fe(III) has suggested that the selectivity of poly(EGMP-co-AMPS) towards U(VI) decreases with increase of AMPS proportion in the polymer, and selectivity is completely lost when AMPS units are more than 4 times with respect to EGMP (phosphate bearing units). However, the kinetics of U(VI) sorption increases with increase of AMPS units in poly(EGMP-co-AMPS). U(VI) sorption efficiency is not affected by the presence of 10,000 times excess of moles of representative ions like Ca, Cu and V in solution. However, Fe(III) compete with U(VI) for sorption in poly(EGMP-co-AMPS) anchored membrane. Desorptions of U(VI), Fe(III) and other ions from the membrane samples are found to be quantitative in equilibration with 0.5 mol L-1 Na2CO3, 0.2 mol L-1 EDTA, and 1 mol L-1 HCl, respectively. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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