Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8852918 | Chemosphere | 2018 | 30 Pages |
Abstract
To prevent the blockage in a continuous fix-bed system, Pleurotus Ostreatus spent substrate (POSS), a composite agricultural waste, was immobilized into granular adsorbents (IPOSS) with polymeric matrix, and used to remove Cd(II) from synthetic wastewater in batch experiment as well as in continuous fixed-bed column system. In batch experiment, higher pH, temperature and Cd(II) initial concentration were conducive to a higher biosorption capacity, and the maximum biosorption capacity reached up to 87.2 mg/g at Cd(II) initial concentration of 200 mg/L, pH 6 and 25 °C. The biosorption of Cd(II) onto IPOSS followed the Langmuir isotherm model with the maximum adsorption capacity(qmax) of 100 mg/g. The biosorption was an endothermic reaction and a spontaneous process based on positive value of ÎH0 and negative value of ÎG0. In fixed-bed column system, higher bed depth, lower flow rate and influent Cd(II) concentration led to a longer breakthrough and exhaustion time, and the best performance (equilibrium uptake (qe) of 14.4 mg, breakthrough time at 31 h and exhaustion time at 78 h) was achieved at a bed depth of 110 cm, a flow rate of 1.2 L/h and an influent concentration of 100 mg/L. Furthermore, regeneration experiment revealed a good reusability of IPOSS with 0.1 M HNO3 as eluting agent during three cycles of adsorption and desorption. Cd(II) biosorption onto IPOSS mainly relied on a chemical process including ion exchange and complexation or coordination revealed by SEM-EDX, FTIR and XRD analysis.
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Authors
Yu Jin, Chunying Teng, Sumei Yu, Tao Song, Liying Dong, Jinsong Liang, Xin Bai, Xuesheng Liu, Xiaojing Hu, Juanjuan Qu,