scholarly journals Adsorptive Behavior of an Activated Carbon for Bisphenol A Removal in Single and Binary (Bisphenol A—Heavy Metal) Solutions

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 2150 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Martín-Lara ◽  
M. Calero ◽  
A. Ronda ◽  
I. Iáñez-Rodríguez ◽  
C. Escudero

Bisphenol A (BPA) is an extensively produced and consumed chemical in the world. Due to its widespread use, contamination by this pollutant has increased in recent years, reaching a critical environmental point. This work investigates the feasibility of bisphenol A adsorption from industrial wastewater solutions, testing the reduction of bisphenol A in synthetic solutions by a commercial activated carbon, AC-40, in batch mode. Besides, mixtures of bisphenol A and different heavy metal cations were also studied. So far, no works have reported a complete study about bisphenol A removal by this activated carbon including the use of this material to remove BPA in the presence of metal cations. First, adsorption experiments were performed in batch changing pH, dose of adsorbent, initial bisphenol A concentration and contact time. Results showed greater retention of bisphenol A by increasing the acidity of the medium. Further, the percentage of bisphenol A adsorbed increased with increasing contact time. The selected conditions for the rest of the experiments were pH 5 and a contact time of 48 h. In addition, an increase in retention of bisphenol A when the dose of adsorbent increased was observed. Then, specific experiments were carried out to define the kinetics and the adsorption isotherm. Equilibrium data were adequately fitted to a Langmuir isotherm and the kinetics data fitted well to the pseudo-second-order model. The maximum adsorption capacity provided by Langmuir model was 94.34 mg/g. Finally, the effect of the presence of other heavy metals in water solution on the adsorption of bisphenol A was analyzed. Binary tests revealed competition between the adsorbates and a significant selectivity toward bisphenol A. Finally, the study of the adsorption performance in three consecutive adsorption–desorption cycles showed efficiencies higher than 90% in all cycles, indicating that the activated carbon has good reusability.

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susy Yunita Prabawati ◽  
Jumina Jumina ◽  
Sri Juari Santosa ◽  
Mustofa Mustofa ◽  
Keisuke Ohto

A research has been conducted to investigate the capability of a series of novel calix[6]arenes-based polymers: poly-monoallyloxycalix[6]arene (2a), poly-monoallyloxypenta-estercalix[6]arene (2b) and poly-monoallyloxypenta-acidcalix[6]arene (2c) for trapping of heavy metal cations such as Cd(II), Cu(II) and Cr(III). The existence of active hydroxy group (-OH) and with a tunnel-like structure of the polymers, caused the polymers can be used as adsorbents for heavy metals. The adsorption process was carried out in batch method in the variation of acidity (pH), contact time and initial concentration of metal ions. The results showed that the amount of adsorbed metal increased with the increasing of the pH of metal solution. For these three polymers, the amount of metal ions Cd(II), Cu(II) and Cr(III) adsorbed was optimum at pH 7, 6 and 5 respectively. The optimum contact time for Cd(II) and Cu(II) was 120 min, while that for Cr(III) was 60 min. Study of the adsorption kinetics showed that the adsorption of Cd(II), Cu(II) and Cr(III) using polymer 2a followed kinetics model of Ho. For adsorbent 2b and 2c, the adsorption kinetics of Cd(II) and Cr(III) also followed kinetics model of Ho while for the Cu(II) followed Lagergren kinetic models. Isothermal studies showed that the adsorption of metal ions on all adsorbents tend to follow the Langmuir isotherm. The adsorption energies of the three adsorbents were higher than 23 kJ/mole and polymer 2c has the largest adsorption capacity for Cr(III).


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Susy Yunita Prabawati ◽  
Jumina Jumina ◽  
Sri Juari Santosa ◽  
Mustofa Mustofa

This research aims to examine the capability of poly-37,40-diallyl-38,39,41,42,-tetrahydroxy-calix[6]arenes as adsorbent for heavy metal cations such as Cd(II), Cr(III) and Cu(II). The adsorption process was carried out by batch method in the variation of acidity (pH), contact time and initial concentration of metal ions. The adsorption kinetics and adsorption isotherms were also studied. The results of this research showed that the amount of adsorbed metal increased with the increasing of the pH of metal solution. The amount of metal ions Cd(II) and Cr(III) adsorbed was optimum at pH 5, while for metal ion Cu(II) was optimum at pH 4. The optimum contact time for Cd(II), Cr(III) and Cu(II) was 60; 30; and 180 minutes, respectively. The study of adsorption kinetics showed that the adsorption of Cd (II), Cr (III) and Cu (II) metal ions using this adsorbent followed kinetics model of Ho. Isothermal studies showed that the adsorption of the three metal ions tends to follow the Langmuir isotherm. The adsorption capacities of Cd (II), Cr (III) and Cu (II) metal ions with poly-37,40-diallyl-38,39,41,42,-tetrahydroxycalix[6]arenes were 7.06; 14.72 and 38.45 µmol/g, respectively.  


2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 761-769 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Madhavakrishnan ◽  
K. Manickavasagam ◽  
K. Rasappan ◽  
P. S. Syed Shabudeen ◽  
R. Venkatesh ◽  
...  

Activated carbon prepared from Ricinus communis Pericarp was used to remove Ni(II) from aqueous solution by adsorption. Batch mode adsorption experiments are carried out by varying contact time, metal-ion concentration, carbon concentration and pH to assess kinetic and equilibrium parameters. The adsorption data were modeled by using both Langmuir and Freundlich classical adsorption isotherms. The adsorption capacity (Qo) calculated from the Langmuir isotherm was 31.15 mg/g of activated carbon at initial pH of 5.0±0.2 for the particle size 125-250 µm.


2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 3870-3874
Author(s):  
Lassaad Baklouti

The synthesis and the binding properties of novel phthalonitrile derivatives 1-3 towards metal cations have been described in this paper. The complexation and extraction of some transition and heavy metal cations have been followed by UV-visible spectrophotometry absorption in methanol. The conductivity studies have been used in order to confirm complex’s stoichiometries. The treatment of UV spectra by digital program showed the formation of ML (with ML2 in some cases) (M=metal, L=ligand) species. Beyond the discussion of the stability profiles of complexes particular attention is paid to the selectivity towards Cu2+ in the 1st sequence of transition metal cations and towards Hg2+ in the sequence of heavy metal cations.


Author(s):  
Rajani Ghaju Shrestha ◽  
Daisuke Inoue ◽  
Michihiko Ike

Abstract A constructed wetland (CW) is a low-cost, eco-friendly, easy-to-maintain, and widely applicable technology for treating various pollutants in the waste landfill leachate. This study determined the effects of the selection and compiling strategy of substrates used in CWs on the treatment performance of a synthetic leachate containing bisphenol A (BPA) as a representative recalcitrant pollutant. We operated five types of lab-scale vertical-flow CWs using only gravel (CW1), a sandwich of gravel with activated carbon (CW2) or brick crumbs (CW3), and two-stage hybrid CWs using gravel in one column and activated carbon (CW4) or brick crumbs (CW5) in another to treat synthetic leachate containing BPA in a 7-d sequential batch mode for 5 weeks. CWs using activated carbon (CW2 and CW4) effectively removed ammonium nitrogen (NH4-N) (99–100%), chemical oxygen demand (COD) (93–100%), and BPA (100%), indicating that the high adsorption capacity of activated carbon was the main mechanism involved in their removal. CW5 also exhibited higher pollutant removal efficiencies (NH4-N: 94–99%, COD: 89–98%, BPA: 89–100%) than single-column CWs (CW1 and CW3) (NH4-N: 76–100%, COD: 84–100%, BPA: 51–100%). This indicates the importance of the compiling strategy along with the selection of an appropriate substrate to improve the pollutant removal capability of CWs.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-22
Author(s):  
Vika Ayu Devianti ◽  
Anisa Rizki Amalia

ABSTRAKVitamin C berperan penting dalam mempertahankan daya tahan tubuh. Vitamin C mudah teroksidasi dan tidakstabil dalam bentuk larutan. Vitamin C banyak ditemukan dalam buah – buahan, diantaranya adalah apel danstroberi. Apel dan stroberi ini sering diolah dalam bentuk minuman sari buah melalui proses ekstraksi osmosis. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui pengaruh lama waktu osmosis (30 dan 60 menit) dan penambahan gula 10% terhadap kandungan vitamin C dalam minuman sari buah apel dan stroberi. Penambahan gula 10% mampu memperkecil penurunan kadar vitamin C dalam minuman sari buah. Penurunan kadar vitamin C pada sampel sari buah stroberi tanpa penambahan gula adalah 18,7% pada menit ke-30 dan 37,5% pada menit ke-60, sedangkan penambahan gula 10% mengalami penurunan sebesar 2,7% pada menit ke-30 dan 7,9% pada menit ke-60. Penurunan kadar vitamin C pada sampel sari buah apel tanpa penambahan gula adalah 24,2% pada menitke-30 dan 41,6% pada menit ke-60, sedangkan penambahan gula 10% mengalami penurunan sebesar 10,6% pada menit ke-30 dan 21,4% pada menit ke-60.Kata kunci: Vitamin C, sukrosa, minuman sari buah, apel, strawberry, osmosis ABSTRACTVitamin C plays an important in human body. Vitamin C is easily degraded by heat, light, oxygen, and heavy metal cations. Vitamin C mostly found in fruits, such as strawberry and apple. Generally strawberry and apple are processed into fruit juice by adding sugar using osmosis extraction. The objective of this research is to findout the effect of osmosis time and sugar addition towards the vitamin C level in strawberry and apple juice. The result showed that sugar addition can affect the vitamin C level in strawberry and apple juice. Sugars can decrease the oxygen solubility causing less oxygen availability for oxidation of vitamin C. The diminish of vitamin C content in apple juice with sugar addition were 10,6% and 21,4% for 30 and 60 minutes of osmosis time; while strawberry juice with sugar addition able to lowering vitamin C level until 18,7% and 37,5% for 30 and 60 minutes of osmosis time.Keywords: Vitamin C, sucrose, apple juice, strawberry juice, osmosis,


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