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Mechanisms and factors affecting the adsorption of sodium alginate onto modified clays

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Algal organic materials (AOMs) are one critical factor affecting the efficiency of modified clays used for the mitigation of harmful algal blooms (HABs). This study was conducted to develop a deeper understanding of the mechanisms and factors affecting the adsorption of AOMs onto modified clays. Sodium alginate (polysaccharide) and kaolinite modified with polyaluminium chloride (PACl) were used as AOMs and modified clay model substances, respectively, and the effects of modifier dosage, contact time, solution pH and ionic strength were investigated through batch adsorption experiments. Kinetics revealed that the alginate adsorption rate was described well by a pseudo-second order model. PACl effectively enhanced the adsorption capacity of kaolinite and increased the adsorption rate, and the optimum additive amount of PACl was 5%. The experimental data fitted both the Freundlich and Langmuir adsorption equations well. The adsorption thermodynamics for alginate onto modified clays suggests that alginate adsorption is a spontaneous process. The adsorption of alginate onto modified clays was highly dependent on pH, with a decrease in adsorption observed with increased pH to 9.48, but the opposite was true above pH 9.48. Finally, adsorption increased with increasing ionic strength.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China

    Yongxin Lin  (林勇新), Xihua Cao  (曹西华), Xiuxian Song  (宋秀贤), Nan Wang  (王楠) & Zhiming Yu  (俞志明)

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Yongxin Lin  (林勇新) & Nan Wang  (王楠)

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Young Scholars (No. 40906055), the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (No. 2010CB428706), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Creative Research Groups (No. 41121064)

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Lin, Y., Cao, X., Song, X. et al. Mechanisms and factors affecting the adsorption of sodium alginate onto modified clays. Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 31, 867–875 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-013-2226-8

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