Kinetic Study of Sr2+Sorption by Bone Char

The effect of particle size, bone char mass, initial pH, and metal concentration on the kinetics of Sr2+ sorption by bone char was studied and discussed. Considering the sorbed amounts of Sr2+, solution pH changes, changes of Ca2+ concentrations and Ca/Sr molar ratios, with time, it was concluded that surface complexation reactions are dominant in the first, more rapid stage of the sorption process, while the contribution of the ion-exchange mechanism increases with time and becomes more significant in the second, slower phase. Under all investigated experimental conditions, the pseudo-second-order model was found to provide high correlation coefficients and the equilibrium amounts of Sr2+ sorbed comparable to the values obtained experimentally.