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Kinetics comparison on simultaneous and sequential competitive adsorption of heavy metals in red soils

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To compare the adsorption kinetics of Cu, Zn and Cd introduced into red soils simultaneously and sequentially as well as their distribution coefficients, the ability of red soils to retain heavy metals was evaluated by performing batch experiments. The results indicate that Cu is preferentially adsorbed by red soils no matter in simultaneous or in sequential situation. The adsorption amount of Cd is the minimum in simultaneous competitive adsorption experiment. As heavy metals are added into red soils sequentially, the heavy metal adsorptions are relatively hard to reach equilibrium in 2 h. Red soils retain more Cd than Zn, which is opposite to the result in simultaneous adsorption. The addition sequences of heavy metals affect their adsorbed amounts in red soils to a certain extent. The joint distribution coefficients of metals in simultaneous adsorption are slightly higher than those in sequential adsorption.

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  1. College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China

    Yan Wang  (王艳), Zhong-wu Li  (李忠武), Bin Huang  (黄斌), Liang Guo  (郭亮), Jin-quan Huang  (黄金权) & Guang-ming Zeng  (曾光明)

  2. Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control of Ministry of Education (Hunan University), Changsha, 410082, China

    Yan Wang  (王艳), Zhong-wu Li  (李忠武), Bin Huang  (黄斌), Liang Guo  (郭亮), Jin-quan Huang  (黄金权) & Guang-ming Zeng  (曾光明)

  3. State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology (Beijing Normal University), Beijing, 100875, China

    Wei-guo Jiang  (蒋卫国)

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Foundation item: Projects(40971179, 41271294) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China; Project(NCET-09-330) supported by the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, China; Project(11JJ3041) supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province, China

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Wang, Y., Li, Zw., Huang, B. et al. Kinetics comparison on simultaneous and sequential competitive adsorption of heavy metals in red soils. J. Cent. South Univ. 22, 1269–1275 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11771-015-2643-2

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