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Published on: March 27, 2019
Effect of chlorine content of chlorophenols on their adsorption by mesoporous SBA-15
Qingdong Qin1, Ke Liu, Dafang Fu
1School of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China. qinqingdong@yahoo.com.cn
Abstract:
Studies on the effect of the chlorine content of chlorophenols (CPs) on their adsorption from aqueous solution by mesoporous SBA-15 are important in understanding the mechanisms of CP adsorption. In this study, three CPs with different degrees of chlorine content (i.e., 2-chlorophenol, 2,6-dichlorophenol and 2,4,6-trichlorophenol) were investigated. The effects of parameters such as temperature and solution pH were studied. The results showed that CP adsorption by SBA-15 increased with increasing number of chlorine substituents and depended strongly on the temperature and solution pH. Thermodynamic parameters such as Gibbs free energy change (deltaG0), enthalpy change (deltaH0) and entropy change (deltaS0) were also calculated. By comparison of the adsorption coefficient of CPs with varying physical-chemical properties (size, hydrophobicity and electron density), we propose that hydrophobic interactions between CPs and the SBA-15 surface, as well as electron donor-acceptor (EDA) complexes between oxygen of the siloxane surface of SBA-15 (e(-)-donor) and the pi-system of the CPs (e(-)-acceptor), were dominant adsorption mechanisms.
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