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Sorption behavior of florisil for the removal of antimony ions from aqueous solutions
Lei Zhang1, Qing Lin, Xingjia Guo
1College of Chemistry, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, People's Republic of China. zhanglei63@126.com
Abstract:
Florisil was employed for the sorption of antimony ions from aqueous solutions. A detailed study of the process was performed by varying the sorption time, pH, and temperature. The sorption was found to be fast, equilibrium was reached within 15 min. Moreover, a maximum sorption has been achieved from solution when the pH ranges between 1-10. From kinetic experiments it follows that the process correlate with the second-order kinetic model. The overall rate process appears to be influenced by both boundary layer diffusion and intra-particle diffusion. The Langmuir and Dubinin-Radushkevich (D-R) type sorption isotherms can be applied to fit and interpret the sorption data. The mean energy of adsorption (9.73 kJ mol(-1)) was calculated from the Dubinin-Radushkevich (D-R) adsorption isotherm at room temperature. Furthermore, the thermodynamic parameters for the sorption were also determined, and the deltaH0 and deltaG0 values indicate a spontaneous endothermic behavior.
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