Chanda, Manas and Pillay, S Arumugom (2005) A novel fibre-coated sorbent for rapid removal of heavy metals from wastewater. Sorption of Zinc(II) from dilute aqueous solutions in the presence of high concentrations of common salts. In: Indian Journal of Chemical Technology, 12 (2). pp. 156-163.
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The commercial acrylic fibre "Cashmilon" was partially hydrolyzed to convert a fraction of its nitrile (-CN) groups to carboxylic acid (-COOH) groups and then coated with polyethylenimine (PEI) resin and cross-linked with glutaraldehyde to produce a novel gel-coated fibrous sorbent with multiple functionalities of cationic, anionic and chelating types, and significantly faster sorption kinetics than bead-form sorbents. The sorption properties of the fibrous sorbent were measured using Zn(II) in aqueous solution as the sorbate to determine the effects of pH and the presence of common ions in the solution on the sorption capacity. The rate of sorption on the gel-coated fibre was measured in comparison with that on Amberlite IRA-68 weak-base resin beads, to demonstrate the marked difference between fibre and bead-form sorbents in their kinetic behaviour.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Indian Journal of Chemical Technology |
| Publisher: | National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources |
| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources. |
| Keywords: | Acrylic fibre,zinc ion,ion-exchange resin,polyacrylonitrile, polyethylenimine,sorbent,sorption |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Chemical Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jun 2010 10:08 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2010 10:08 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/27777 |
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