Influence of pH on photocatalytic reduction, adsorption, and deposition of metal ions: speciation modeling

2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 1335-1363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajendra Singh Thakur ◽  
Rubina Chaudhary ◽  
Chandan Singh
Author(s):  
I. O. Ekwere ◽  
M. Horsfall ◽  
J. O. E. Otaigbe

The photocatalytic reduction of Cu (II), Pb (II), Cd (II) and Cr (VI) ions in aqueous solution has been investigated. The photocatalyst utilized was nano titanium dioxide, composed of 80% anatase and 20% rutile; the UV light source was a 15 W UV bulb with a wavelength of 254 nm. The results obtained indicated a reduction efficiency order as follows; Cr6+ > Cu2+ > Pb2+ > Cd2+. It was observed that these results correlate with the respective reduction potentials of the metal ions. The effect of pH on the photocatalytic reduction of the metal ions was also carried out and results obtained indicated that with the exception of Cr (VI) ions, higher percentage removal of metal ions from their aqueous solution was recorded at alkaline pH than at acidic pH. This was attributed to an extensive formation of precipitate by the metal ions at alkaline pH. Kinetic studies revealed that the removal of metal ions from their solutions largely followed the pseudo- first-order kinetics. Therefore, the results of this study will be useful in metal ion removal from industrial waste water using photocatalytic process.


1997 ◽  
Vol 101 (50) ◽  
pp. 10688-10697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin X. Chen ◽  
Tijana Rajh ◽  
Zhiyu Wang ◽  
Marion C. Thurnauer

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 727-732
Author(s):  
Harish Sharma ◽  
Rajesh Kumar ◽  
Mahesh Chandra Vishwakarma ◽  
Sushil Kumar Joshi ◽  
Narender Singh Bhandari

In present study, Pyras pashia leaves were used as low cost biosorbent to study biosorption of Cu(II), Pb(II) and Cd(II) ions from contaminated wastewater. In the employed batch methods pH, contact time, metal ion concentration, temperature, biosorbent doses were taken as study parameters. The pH was varied from pH 1-9 to study the influence of pH on biosorption of metal ions by Pyras pashia. The optimum pH for the removal of Cu(II), Pb(II) and Cd(II) is observed at pH 5. The biosorption equilibrium time was varied between 15-75 min. Langmuir, Freundlich and Temkin isotherms were employed to study the biosorption. The biosorption parameter fits well with Langmuir isotherm. The biosorption of metal ions was increased with increasing biosorbent dose and contact time while increase in pH, metal ion concentration and temperature decrease the biosorption. Thermodynamic data suggest that the bisorption process was spontaneous, feasible and endothermic.


Author(s):  
Pieter R Cullis ◽  
Michael J Hope ◽  
Marcel B Bally ◽  
Thomas D Madden ◽  
Lawrence D Mayer ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Muhammad Arief Karim ◽  
Heni Juniar ◽  
M. Fitria Putri Ambarsari

Adsorption is a process occurs in a fluid, either it is liquid or gas, bonded in a solid or liquid (absorbent agent, adsorbent) and eventually creates a thin layer or film (adsorbed agent, adsorbent) on its surface. In this study, the writer did the process of the adsorption of Fe metal ion to the adsorbent of carbide waste that has been processed into tablet with 3x5 mm size, adsorption was done with Batch process by stirring 15gr or adsorbent into 100ml of synthetic waste with 50rpm stirring speed. There are two factors that influence the decrease of Fe metal concentration in synthesis waste which is the influence of pH and time. This study used variables of adsorption time (1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6) hours with pH (2.5; 4.1) for each hour with an initial concentration of Fe 800g metal ions. This study was conducted to obtain the optimum value of pH and concentration of final Fe metal ions with the comparison of initial pH ratio and predetermined time. Seen from the matrix results of the study, it can be concluded that the longer the stirring time the more metal ions are absorbed by the adsorbent of carbide waste and pH value also rises.


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