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Effect of Organic Ligands on Copper(II) Removal from Metal Plating Wastewater by Orange Peel-based Biosorbents

Water, Air, & Soil Pollution volume 224, Article number: 1507 (2013) Cite this article

Abstract

Copper(II) biosorption in the presence of complexing agents (CA) onto orange peel (OP) and chemically modified OP (OPH+, OPNa+, and OP(Na+)(H+)) was studied. The study of the effect of pH showed that OPH+ presented a copper(II) uptake similar to OP in the pH range 1.5–6.0, whereas OPNa+ and OP(Na+)(H+) showed the highest copper(II) uptake in the pH range 4–6. Copper(II) sorption isotherms were obtained with Cu(II)/CA mass ratios of 1:0 and 1:2 at pH 5. The Sips model fitted best the isotherms without CA, whereas the Freundlich and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) models fitted best the isotherms in the presence of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) and citrate, respectively. The CA reduced the copper(II) uptake due to the presence of copper(II)-chelated species, though the interference of citrate was less important than that of EDTA. OPNa+ and OP(Na+)(H+) showed a higher copper(II) uptake capacity than OP, also in the presence of CA in solution. Copper(II) sorption mechanisms were studied using energy-dispersive X-ray and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and revealed ion exchange as one of the mechanisms. Biosorption reversibility and biosorbent reuse were evaluated in sorption/desorption cycles. Reversibility of copper(II) sorption was obtained (90 % metal recovery), though an important reduction of the metal uptake was observed in the second cycle.

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The authors wish to thank IRIMAR S.L. (Spain) for supplying the material used in this study and the Conselleria d’Educacio de la Generalitat Valenciana (Spain) for the funding a postdoctoral fellowship.

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    Marta Izquierdo & Piet N. L. Lens

  2. Departament d’Enginyeria Química, Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria, Universitat de València, Avgda. Universitat s/n, 46100, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain

    Marta Izquierdo & Paula Marzal

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Izquierdo, M., Marzal, P. & Lens, P.N.L. Effect of Organic Ligands on Copper(II) Removal from Metal Plating Wastewater by Orange Peel-based Biosorbents. Water Air Soil Pollut 224, 1507 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-013-1507-3

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Keywords

  • Biosorption
  • Citrate
  • Complexing agents
  • EDTA
  • Heavy metals
  • Orange peel