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Preparation of Expanded Chitin Foams and their Use in the Removal of Aqueous Copper
Published on: February 27, 2021
Fast removal of Co(ii) from aqueous solution using porous carboxymethyl chitosan beads and its adsorption mechanism
Wenqiang Luo1, Zhishan Bai1, Yong Zhu1
1State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Environmental Risk Assessment and Control on Chemical Process, School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology Shanghai 200237 PR China baizs@ecust.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Porous carboxymethyl chitosan (PCMC) beads were synthesized via ionic coacervation/chemical crosslinking, using polyethylene glycol (PEG) as a porogen and calcium chloride and glutaraldehyde as physical and chemical cross-linkers. The as-synthesized PCMC beads were characterized using SEM, EDS, BET, TGA, FTIR and XPS analysis and then tested for the removal of Co(ii) from aqueous solution. The effects of the initial pH, Co(ii) concentration and temperature were investigated. It was found that the adsorption equilibrium is reached within 6 h and the maximum adsorption capacity is 46.25 mg g-1. In addition, the kinetics and equilibrium data are well described by pseudo-second-order kinetics and the Langmuir isotherm model. Moreover, the desorption and re-adsorption performance was also studied, and the results revealed that the prepared new adsorbent still showed good adsorption performance after five cycles of regeneration. Finally, the adsorption mechanism, including chemical and physical adsorption, was proposed on the basis of the microstructure analysis, adsorption kinetics and isotherm results, and chemical adsorption was found to be the main adsorption mechanism during the process of the removal of Co(ii).
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