Clinoptilolite in study of lindane and aldrin sorption processes from water solution

The scope of this study was adsorption of lindane and aldrin from water solution onto clinoptilolite rock with the following desorption using n-hexane. Both kinetic and equilibrium tests were conducted. During kinetic experiment the most part of aldrin and a half part of lindane were sorbed during the first hours. The sorption equilibria with removal of 95% of aldrin amount and about 68% of lindane amount have been set in for 48 h. The pseudo-second-order kinetics model gives somewhat better fit to the both pesticides' sorption data that may testify to the complicated and heterogeneous nature of interaction between active zeolite surface and the pesticides polar-dipole centers. OH(-)-groups and the coordinated exchangeable cations are probably the main active positions for the pesticide sorption on the clinoptilolite surface. Equilibrium experiment results show that adsorption isotherms for the low concentrations of lindane and aldrin (10-200 and 3-100 microg/L, respectively) fit well to the Freundlich and the Liner models. Only 10% of lindane sorbed and about 60% of aldrin sorbed were desorbed from the clinoptilolite using n-hexane under static conditions.