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Published on: June 2, 2022
Solid-liquid-solid extraction of heavy metals (Cr, Cu, Cd, Ni and Pb) in aqueous systems of zeolite-sewage sludge
1Chair of Environmental Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolas Copernicus University, 7 Gagarina Street, 87-100 Toruń, Poland. sprynsky@yahoo.com
Abstract:
This paper presents results of kinetic and equilibrium studies of the removal of heavy metals (Cr, Cu, Cd, Ni and Pb) from the sewage sludge using a new technique of solid-liquid-solid extraction with the adsorption-diffusion column filled by the zeolite. The metal extraction onto the zeolite from aqueous solution of the clinoptilolite and the sludge composition is characterized by three stages: intensive extraction, inversion and stabilization with the moderate extraction increase. Addition of 25% of the zeolite provides extraction efficiency of cadmium and lead of about 84%, chromium, copper and nickel of 66%, 61% and 50%, respectively. The estimated values of Gibbs free energy change DeltaG show that the metals extraction by the clinoptilolite may be considered as a physical adsorption. The negative values of DeltaG testify to an exothermic nature of the process. The difference between energetic potentials of the components is a driving force of the metal redistribution in the system "clinoptilolite-water-sludge".
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