Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5156356 | Carbohydrate Polymers | 2018 | 32 Pages |
Abstract
Water pollution by heavy metals represents a serious problem around the world. Among various treatment techniques for water remediation, adsorption is an effective and versatile method due to the low cost, effectiveness and simplicity. Chitosan is a cationic polysaccharide with an excellent adsorption capacity of heavy metal ions. Chitosan has a high molybdate adsorption capacity (265 ± 1 mg gâ1) at 20 °C and pH 2.7. Participation of hydroxyl groups in the adsorption of molybdate anions was confirmed by FT-IR analysis. SEM images showed that morphological surface changes happen after MoVI adsorption. Continuous adsorption data were best fitted by Modified Dose- Response model. Scale-up of continuous processes was achieved applying bed depth service time (BDST) model. Application of chitosan in molybdate removal from real groundwater samples suggest that this polysaccharide is a good option to be used for household purposes.
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Authors
Fernando A. Bertoni, Juan C. González, Silvia I. GarcÃa, Luis F. Sala, Sebastián E. Bellú,