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Alkali-treated cellulose fibers for U(VI) separation and enrichment

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The present research work presents the study of cost effective cellulose fibers as sorbent for the U(VI) removal from nuclear wastewaters. Alkali-treated cellulose fibers (ATCFs) were extracted from alkaline peroxide mechanical pulp board by using CH3COOH and NaOH treatment. Sorption capability was ascertained by conducting batch experiments. The kinetic sorption of U(VI) on ATCFs could be described by the pseudo-second-order rate equation well. The results demonstrated that the sorption of U(VI) to ATCFs was strongly dependent of pH and weakly dependent of ionic strength. U(VI) sorption on ATCFs was mainly dominated by the outer-sphere complexation.

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The National Natural Science Foundation of China (41273134 and 21477133) is acknowledged.

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  1. Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 1126, Hefei, 230031, People’s Republic of China

    Kairuo Zhu, Changlun Chen, Jie Li & Rui Zhang

  2. University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230000, People’s Republic of China

    Kairuo Zhu

  3. Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiation Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, People’s Republic of China

    Changlun Chen

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Zhu, K., Chen, C., Li, J. et al. Alkali-treated cellulose fibers for U(VI) separation and enrichment. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 308, 981–990 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-015-4527-1

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