Title: Adsorption of Cu<sup> 2+</sup> Ions from Aqueous Solution by NaOH Activated ZSM-5 Zeolite
Abstract: ZSM-5 zeolite was chemical activated by using NaOH solution to enhance the adsorption efficiency to Cu2+ in aqueous solution. The equilibrium isotherm of NaOH activated ZSM-5 zeolite showed that the Langmuir model gave a better fit to the experimental data. The maximum adsorption capacity of NaOH activated ZSM-5 zeolite was 40.49 mg/g. The adsorption capacity was increased nearly 3.3 times than unactivated zeolite by using 0.4M NaOH. The kinetics study showed that the pseudo-second-order kinetics model could be used to describe the adsorption process satisfactorily. The research also found that the coexisting of Pb2+ ion would greatly decrease the adsorption efficiency of activated zeolite from 99.35% decreased to 56.52%. Both ZSM-5 zeolite and NaOH activated ZSM-5 zeolite was characterized by SEM.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-02-01
Language: en
Type: article
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