Selective removal of nitrate by using a novel macroporous acrylic anion exchange resin

An anion exchange resin NDP-5 has been prepared successfully and applied on the selective removal of nitrate from SO42−/NO3− binary co-existence system. The composition and morphology of NDP-5 were confirmed by FT-IR and SEM. The NDP-5 resin exhibits the completely different behavior on the adsorption capacity, adsorption kinetic and the effect of the completing anion in the absence or presence of sulfate, compared to D213. And, the resultants of kinetic are well fitted by the pseudo-first-order and pseudo-second-order models. These results are very important to develop novel resins with great features.