[Adsorption of pesticides on synthetic adsorption polymers]

On the basis of adsorption of selected pesticides on synthetic adsorption polymers it has been shown that both the adsorption balances as well as kinetics and dynamics of the adsorption strongly depend on the concentration of hydrogen ions of the liquid phase. The dependence of adsorption isotherms on pH value was demonstrated with sufficient accuracy by resorting to the models having been suggested on the ground of IAS theory and the potential one. The kinetic investigations have revealed that the surface diffusion proceeds extremely rapidly in pH ranges that lodge between sorptive pK value and the isoelectric point of the adsorbent surface. The known solutions of transportation and balance equations, which in this case were transferred on the pH-dependent adsorption processes, were implemented for simulating the breakthrough curves. The investigation, covering the effect of the presence of heavy metals in a solution exerted on the pesticides adsorption properties, has shown that the formation of model-pesticide type connections improves the adsorption properties of pesticides to a lesser or greater extent.