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New material for arsenic (V) removal based on chitosan supported onto modified polypropylene membrane

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This paper presents a new material easily synthesized and with low cost, with the possibility of remove arsenic and the potential capability for the remediate water bodies. In this work, the efficiency in removing arsenic of the chitosan, supported onto modified polypropylene membrane, was studied using an aqueous As(V) solution of 0.4 mg/L, achieving a removal efficiency of 75%, which corresponds to an adsorption capacity of 0.031 mg/g. The As(V) adsorption depends on pH and the degree of chitosan grafting on the polypropylene membrane. A pseudo-second-order equation describes the adsorption of the membrane, classifying it as a chemisorption process. The chitosan supported on the membrane was characterized by the analysis of wettability, FT-IR-ATR, SEM-EDS, XRD powder, and surface charge. The As ions coordinate to the chitosan polar groups, allowing their removal from the aqueous solution.

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Abbreviations

K L :

pseudo-first-order constant or sorption rate (L/min)

q e :

amount of solute adsorbed at equilibrium (mg/g)

q t :

Amount of solute adsorbed at time t (mg/g)

t :

time (min)

K 2 :

pseudo-second-order constant (g/mg min)

h :

constant in the initial range (mg/g h)

a :

initial adsorption rate (g/mg min)

b :

desorption constant (mg/g)

q:

adsorption capacity (mg/g)

v:

volume (L)

ci:

initial concentration

cf :

equilibrium concentration of As(V) in the solution

m:

mass of the dry membrane

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Authors would like to thank Dr. Uvaldo Hernández Balderas and María Citlalit Martínez Soto for technical assistance.

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Financial support of CONACYT No. 935960 to conduct postgraduate studies through scholarship. Financial support of SIyEA UAEMex Project 6161/2020CIB.

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    José Juan García-García, Rosa María Gómez-Espinosa, Reyna Natividad Rangel, Rubí Romero Romero & Gabriela Roa Morales

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José Juan. García-García: experimental development of the research work.

Rosa María Gómez-Espinosa: author of correspondence, development, and coordination of the research.

Reyna Natividad Rangel: in charge of the kinetic study.

Rubí Romero Romero: in charge of the adsorption mechanism.

Gabriela Roa Morales: in charge of speciation studies.

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García-García, .J., Gómez-Espinosa, R.M., Rangel, R.N. et al. New material for arsenic (V) removal based on chitosan supported onto modified polypropylene membrane. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 1909–1916 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-15725-1

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