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Kinetic and thermodynamic studies of adsorption of Cu2+ and Pb2+ onto amidoximated bacterial cellulose

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Removal of Cu2+ and Pb2+ from aqueous solutions by adsorption onto amidoximated bacterial cellulose (Am-BC) was investigated. The effects of pH, initial concentration, contact time and temperature were studied in batch experiments. The pseudo-first and pseudo-second orders and intraparticle diffusion equation were used to evaluate the kinetic data and the constants were determined. The experimental data fits well to the pseudo-second order kinetic model, which indicates that the chemical adsorption is the rate-determining step, instead of mass transfer. The equilibrium adsorption data were described by the Langmuir, Freundlich, and Temkin isotherms. The Am-BC showed a better fit to the Langmuir isotherm. The separation factor (R L ) revealed the favorable nature of the isotherm. The thermodynamic parameters (ΔH 0ads , ΔS 0ads , ΔG 0ads ) for Cu2+ and Pb2+ adsorption onto Am-BC were also determined from the temperature dependence. The values of enthalpy and entropy indicated that this process was spontaneous and exothermic. The experimental studies indicate that Am-BC would be a potential effective adsorbent to remove the metal ions from wastewater.

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This work was financially supported by Programme of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities (111-2-04, B07024), New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-05-0420) and Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (B603).

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    Shiyan Chen, Wei Shen, Feng Yu & Huaping Wang

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Chen, S., Shen, W., Yu, F. et al. Kinetic and thermodynamic studies of adsorption of Cu2+ and Pb2+ onto amidoximated bacterial cellulose. Polym. Bull. 63, 283–297 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00289-009-0088-1

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