Journal
CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 213, Issue -, Pages 285-294Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.09.046
Keywords
Surfactant micelles; Arsenic; Ion exchange; Micellar enhanced ultrafiltration (MEUF); Prediction model
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- National Science Foundation EPSCoR Track Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 Focused EPSCoR Collaboration award [OIA-1632892]
- China Scholarship Council (CSC) [201306090107]
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With increasing arsenic (As) contamination incidents reported around the world, better processes for As removal from industrial wastewater and other contaminated waters are required to protect drinking water sources. Complexation of As with cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) cationic surfactant micelles, coupled with ultrafiltration (UF), has the potential to improve As removal, but competition from other anions could be a limiting factor. Using a binary-system ion-exchange model, the selectivity coefficients for binding of the monovalent and divalent forms of arsenate (As (V)) to cationic cetylpyridinium (CP+) micelles, relative to Cl-, were determined to be 0.55 for H2AsO4- and 0.047 mol L-1 for HAsO42-, respectively. The affinity sequence for binding of commonly occurring monovalent anions by CP+ micelles was found to be NO3- > Cl- > HCO3- > H2AsO4-, and for divalent anions, SO42- > HAsOi-. Distribution of As (V) between the micellar and aqueous phases was explored using ion exchange isotherms, with higher pH and lower concentrations of competing anions increasing rejection of As (V) across UF membranes. A model accounting for these effects, based on mass balances across UF membranes and selectivity coefficients for binding of anions to the CP+ micelles, was used to predict As (V) removal during micellar-enhanced ultrafiltration (MEUF) of mixtures of competing anions. Model predictions agreed well with experiment results for both artificial and spiked natural river water samples. Arsenic (approximate to 0.1 mM) removals of 91% and 84% were achieved from artificial waters and spiked natural river waters, respectively, by adding 20 mM CPC prior to UF. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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