화학공학소재연구정보센터
홈 로그인 로그아웃 연락처 사이트맵
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.18, No.4, 1418-1427, July, 2012
DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2012.01.045  Export Citation
Strong adsorption of arsenic species by amorphous zirconium oxide nanoparticles
Hang Cui1, Qi Li1, †, Shian Gao1, and Jian Ku Shang1, 2
  • 1Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, PR China
  • 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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A novel oxide adsorbent of amorphous zirconium oxide (am-ZrO2) nanoparticles was synthesized by a simple hydrothermal process for effective arsenic removal from aqueous environment. Due to their high specific surface area (327.1 m2/g), large mesopore volume (0.68 cm3/g), and the presence of high affinity surface hydroxyl groups, am-ZrO2 nanoparticles demonstrated exceptional adsorption performance on both As(III) (arsenite) and As(V) (arsenate) without pre-treatment at near neutral condition. At pH ~ 7, the adsorption kinetic is fast and the adsorption capacity is high (over 83 mg/g for As(III) and over 32.4 mg/g for As(V), respectively). Under low equilibrium arsenic concentrations (Ce at 0.01 mg/L, the maximum contaminant level (MCL) for arsenic in drinking water), the amount of arsenic adsorbed by am-ZrO2 nanoparticles is over 0.92 mg/g for As(III) and over 5.2 mg/g for As(V), respectively. The adsorption mechanism of arsenic species onto am-ZrO2 nanoparticles was found to follow the inner-sphere complex mechanism. Testing with arsenic contaminated natural lake water confirmed the effectiveness of these am-ZrO2 nanoparticles in removing arsenic from natural water. The immobilized am-ZrO2 nanoparticles on glass fiber cloth demonstrated an even better arsenic removal performance than dispersed am-ZrO2 nanoparticles in water, paving the way for their potential applications in water treatment facility to treat arsenic contaminated water body without pre-treatment.
Keywords:As(III) and As(V) removal;Amorphous ZrO2 nanoparticles;Adsorption;Inner-sphere complex mechanism
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