New chelating resins based on polybenzimidazole. Selective sorption of copper(II) from ammoniacal media on resin with anchored l-cysteine

Chanda, M and Rempel, GL (1991) New chelating resins based on polybenzimidazole. Selective sorption of copper(II) from ammoniacal media on resin with anchored l-cysteine. In: Reactive Polymers, 16 (1). pp. 29-39.

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Abstract

Microporous polybenzimidazole (PBI) of 250–500 μm bead size has been epoxidized and subsequently reacted with l-cysteine in the presence of a phase-transfer catalyst at room temperature to obtain a sorbent having anchored l-cysteine, EPBI(Cyst). The sorption of Cu(II), Ni(II), Co(II), and Zn(II) in mildly acidic and ammoniacal solutions has been measured under comparable conditions on EPBI(Cyst) and Dowex 50W-X8(H+) resins. While the latter shows no appreciable difference in sorption of the four metals in acidic and ammoniacal media and has 40–60 % selectivity for copper(II) over the other three, EPBI(Cyst) shows a threefold increase in copper sorption and more than 90% copper selectivity over the other metals in ammoniacal media, compared to mildly acidic media. The copper binding constant and saturation capacity of EPBI(Cyst) in ammoniacal media decrease only slowly beyond pH 11.6 with the result that the resin shows significant sorption of Cu(II) even in strongly ammoniacal solutions. The sorbed copper is stripped with HCl relatively easily. The copper sorption kinetics on EPBI(Cyst) is unusually fast in ammoniacal media with more than 90 % of equilibrium sorption being attained in one minute.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Reactive Polymers
Publisher:	Elsevier science
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier science.
Keywords:	Chelating resins;polybenzimidazole;functionalized;selective sorption.
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Chemical Engineering
Date Deposited:	26 Nov 2010 09:08
Last Modified:	26 Nov 2010 09:08
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/34007

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