화학공학소재연구정보센터
홈 로그인 로그아웃 연락처 사이트맵
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.76, 133-140, August, 2019
DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2019.02.027  Export Citation
Sorption studies of toxic cations on ginger root adsorbent
Ntaote David Shooto†, Eliazer Bobby Naidoo, and Manoko Maubane1
  • Advanced Materials Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Vaal University of Technology, P.O. Box X021, Vanderbijlpark 1900, South Africa
  • 1Microscopy and Microanalysis Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Wits, 2050, South Africa
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This research reports the feasibility of using pristine ginger root (PGR), base treated ginger root (BTGR) and acid treated ginger root (ATGR) adsorbents to simultaneously remove Cu(II), Pb(II) and Ni(II) ions from aqueous solution under different experimental parameters by batch method. Different system parameters such as the effect of metal concentration, time dependent studies and temperature effect were evaluated. The sorption trend indicated that the pretreated adsorbents; ATGR and BTGR had better performance than PGR. The sorption of Cu(II), Ni(II) and Pb(II) ions onto BTGR is 16.3, 18.9 and 17.6 mg/g onto ATGR is 15.3, 18.6 and 17.5 mg/g and onto PGR is 1.8, 1.9 and 1.9 mg/g respectively. The overall Cu/Ni/Pb ions sorption trend for the adsorbents is BTGR>ATGR>PGR. Freundlich isotherm best describes all the sorption processes in this work. The sorption rate results of Ni(II) ions was much faster than those of Pb(II) and Cu(II) in all the adsorbents. The good unity fits of PSO data suggests that Cu(II), Ni(II) and Pb(II) is better described by this model and the sorption mechanism is based on electrostatic interactions and adsorption sites. The ΔG° data gave negative values for all samples; suggesting that the sorption processes were spontaneous. The positive ΔS° figures indicated that the degree of freedom for Cu(II), Ni(II) and Pb(II) ions was not restricted on PGR, ATGR and BTGR adsorbents.
Keywords:Adsorption;Heavy metals;Ginger;Kinetics;Equilibrium
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