Effect of phosphate on the adsorption of Cu and Cd on natural hematite

Interactions between anions and cations are important to understand the chemical processes of pollutants in environment. In this study, batch experiments were carried out to investigate the simultaneous adsorption of Cu and Cd on hematite as affected by phosphate. Phosphate pretreatment suppressed the maximum adsorption of Cu and Cd on hematite and moved the adsorption pH edges to a higher pH range. Phosphate application time had a marked impact on Cu and Cd adsorption and longer contact time resulted in more reduction of Cu and Cd adsorption. Results of back-titration, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy study and ionic strength effect on the adsorption revealed that Cu and Cd were adsorbed on hematite mainly through the inner-sphere complex formation mechanism and phosphate treatment reduced the inner-sphere adsorption sites, thus decreasing Cu and Cd adsorption on hematite.     

Entrained-flow adsorption of mercury using activated carbon

Bench-scale experiments were conducted in a flow reactor to simulate entrained-flow capture of elemental mercury (Hg0) by activated carbon. Adsorption of Hg0 by several commercial activated carbons was examined at different C:Hg ratios (by weight) (350:1-29,000:1), particle sizes (4-44 microns), Hg0 concentrations (44, 86, and 124 ppb), and temperatures (23-250 degrees C). Increasing the C:Hg ratio from 2100:1 to 11,000:1 resulted in an increase in removal from 11 to 30% for particle sizes of 4-8 microns and a residence time of 6.5 sec. Mercury capture increased with a decrease in particle size. At 100 degrees C and an Hg0 concentration of 86 ppb, a 20% Hg0 reduction was obtained with 4- to 8-micron particles, compared with only a 7% reduction for 24- to 44-micron particles. Mercury uptake decreased with an increase in temperature over a range of 21-150 degrees C. Only a small amount of the Hg0 uptake capacity is being utilized (less than 1%) at such short residence times. Increasing the residence time over a range of 3.8-13 sec did not increase adsorption for a lignite-based carbon; however, increasing the time from 3.6 to 12 sec resulted in higher Hg0 removal for a bituminous-based carbon.     

Important role of reaction field in photodegradation of deca-bromodiphenyl ether: Theoretical and experimental investigations of solvent effects

Photolysis of deca-bromodiphenyl ether (BDE-209) was investigated in tetrahydrofuran, dichloromethane, isopropanol, acetone, ethanol, methanol, acetonitrile and dimethylsulfoxide. Noticeable differences of the photolytic rates and quantum yields were found in the diverse solvents. Different to the previous deductions, hydrogen donating efficiency and electron donating efficiency of solvents were not the decisive factors for the photolytic rate in this study, which was proved by the fast photolysis of BDE-209 in CCl₄, a solvent without hydrogen and difficult to donate electrons. Besides hydrogen addition process, intermolecular polymerization might occur during the photolysis. Density functional theory (DFT) calculation was performed to understand the molecular properties of BDE-209 in different solvents. The lowest singlet vertical excitation energy (E_ex) and the average formal charge on Br () of BDE-209, reflecting the difficulty for the excitation of BDE-209 and for the departing of Br atom, respectively, were changed by the reaction fields formed by the different solvents. E_ex and linearly correlated with the photolytic activity (log k). This study is helpful to better understand the photolytic behavior of BDE-209 in different media.     

Competitive adsorption of alkylbenzene and water vapors on predominantly mineral surfaces

Competitive adsorption of ethylbenzene (EB) and water on bentonite and of p-xylene (pXYL) and water on kaolin and silica gel was studied using a technique that allowed the amount of adsorbed water and alkylbenzene to be measured independently. EB adsorption on bentonite was not affected by water at relative humidities (RH) near 0.23 but was reduced significantly at RH's near 0.50. pXYL adsorption on kaolin and silica gel decreased with increasing RH, especially above a RH of about 0.2. Increasing RH not only decreased the amount of alkylbenzene adsorption but also resulted in a change from Type-II adsorption isotherms to ones that were essentially linear. Linear isotherms for the adsorption of hydrophobic organic compounds on hydrated soil have generally been attributed to partitioning into organic carbon (OC). However, since the clays and oxide used here had very low to trace amounts of OC, it is suggested that processes involving only mineral surfaces can give rise to linear isotherms. Based on solubility considerations alone, partitioning of EB and pXYL into adsorbed water films was not considered to be an important adsorption mechanism in this study. The effect of cation hydration on the amount of water adsorbed from a mixture of water and pXYL vapors was evaluated by comparing adsorption on Li- and Na-saturated kaolin.     

改性沸石对水中微量汞的吸附性能

为了更好的去除水体中微量汞,研究了采用二氧化锰和壳聚糖对天然斜发沸石进行改性,着重考察了pH、温度、离子强度、Hg2+初始浓度和时间对改性前后沸石吸附Hg2+的影响,并研究了其吸附机理。结果表明,改性沸石受pH、温度和离子强度影响较小,在pH、温度、离子强度和初始浓度为6、25℃、0.05 mol·L-1和50 μg·L-1时,二氧化锰+壳聚糖改性沸石（ZCM）对Hg2+的去除率高达99%,符合国家饮用水标准,并且二氧化锰+壳聚糖改性沸石（ZCM）具有更好的解吸再生性。3种沸石均较好的符合Langmuir等温吸附模型和假二级动力学模型,其中改性沸石对汞的吸附主要为离子交换和表面官能团的络合作用,二氧化锰+壳聚糖改性沸石（ZCM）和壳聚糖改性沸石（ZC）饱和吸附量由1.43 mg·g-1提高到5和3.3 mg·g-1,吸附平衡时间由10 h减少至1和4 h,为治理汞微污染地表水提供一定的理论支持。     

银负载对活性炭纤维汞吸附性能的影响

银氨溶液浸渍活性炭纤维制得载银量14.07%的载银活性炭纤维.以筒状吸附体吸附气态Hg0的方式研究活性炭纤维银载前后的汞吸附性能,结果表明,载银后活性炭纤维汞吸附性能明显提高.实验还发现:随吸附温度升高,活性炭纤维的汞吸附效率随先增加后降低,而载银活性炭纤维的汞吸附效率随吸附温度升高而一直降低;延长停留时间和添加H2O(g)对两者汞吸附均有利.采用片状吸附体对2种吸附剂的汞饱和吸附量进行了测定,实验得出:70℃下活性炭纤维汞饱和吸附量为29.4 mg/g,载银活性炭纤维汞饱和吸附量为192.3 mg/g,即活性炭纤维载银后汞饱和吸附量提高到原来的6.54倍.扫描电镜分析发现:活性炭纤维上物理吸附汞占绝大多数,化学吸附汞很少;负载银后汞只吸附在活性炭纤维的含银活性点上,银粒子与汞结合生成银汞齐后形状趋于规则,且主要分布于活性炭纤维微晶的晶棱交界处.     

不同制备条件对生物焦汞吸附特性及吸附动力学的影响

为获得生物焦对汞的吸附特性,对不同制备条件下的生物焦进行研究。通过分析生物质种类、制备粒径、制备温度以及制备氧浓度对生物焦吸附汞的影响,并结合其吸附动力学过程,进一步探究吸附机理。结果表明:不同制备条件下生物焦汞吸附特性存在差异;生物焦对汞的物理吸附中,孔隙结构对其具有影响,累积孔体积越大,单位汞吸附量越高,利于生物焦对汞的吸附;与比表面积相比,比孔容积在汞吸附过程中发挥更为重要的作用;化学吸附与物理吸附均在生物焦汞吸附过程中起到重要影响,且化学吸附是其主要的控速步骤。     

Modelling the adsorption of mercury onto natural and aluminium pillared clays

Introduction

The removal of heavy metals by natural adsorbent has become one of the most attractive solutions for environmental remediation. Natural clay collected from the Late Cretaceous Aleg formation, Tunisia was used as a natural adsorbent for the removal of Hg(II) in aqueous system.

Methods

Physicochemical characterization of the adsorbent was carried out with the aid of various techniques, including chemical analysis, X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared and scanning electron micrograph. Batch sorption technique was selected as an appropriate technique in the current study. Method parameters, including pH, temperature, initial metal concentration and contact time, were varied in order to quantitatively evaluate their effects on Hg(II) adsorption onto the original and pillared clay samples. Adsorption kinetic was studied by fitting the experimental results to the pseudo-first-order and pseudo-second-order kinetic models. The adsorption data were also simulated with Langmuir, Freundlich and Temkin isotherms.

Results

Results showed that the natural clay samples are mainly composed of silica, alumina, iron, calcium and magnesium oxides. The sorbents are mainly mesoporous materials with specific surface area of <250 m² g^?1. From the adsorption of Hg(II) studies, experimental data demonstrated a high degree of fitness to the pseudo-second-order kinetics with an equilibration time of 240 min. The equilibrium data showed the best model fit to Langmuir model with the maximum adsorption capacities of 9.70 and 49.75 mg g^?1 for the original and aluminium pillared clays, respectively. The maximum adsorption of Hg(II) on the aluminium pillared clay was observed to occur at pH 3.2. The calculated thermodynamic parameters (?G°, ?H° and ?S°) showed an exothermic adsorption process. The entropy values varied between 60.77 and 117.59 J?mol^?1 K^?1, and those of enthalpy ranged from 16.31 to 30.77 kJ mol^?1. The equilibrium parameter (R _L) indicated that the adsorption of Hg(II) on Tunisian smectitic clays was favourable under the experimental conditions of this study.

Conclusion

The clay of the Aleg formation, Tunisia was found to be an efficient adsorbent for Hg(II) removal in aqueous systems.     

卤化铵改性竹炭对单质汞吸附性能的影响

为了研究廉价吸附剂竹炭的脱汞性能,将经过CO2活化并采用NH4Cl、NH4I超声浸渍改性的竹炭（BC）应用于单质汞的吸附,并对比不同负载量的NH4Cl以及NH4I改性和温度等因素对竹炭的汞脱除性能的影响。采用了元素分析、扫描电镜分析、XPS表征、比表面积及孔径分布等对材料进行研究。结果表明,NH4Cl和NH4I改性显著提高竹炭的脱汞能力,并且在同等条件下NH4I改性剂效果优于NH4Cl。研究表明提高负载量会造成吸附材料孔堵塞,但在0~8wt.%的负载量情况下,孔道的堵塞不足以抵消化学吸附带来的积极作用,表明改性竹炭对汞的吸附主要表现为化学吸附。同时改性竹炭存在随着温度升高其吸附效率先降低后升高的趋势,暗示竹炭对汞的吸附在低温时物理吸附占优势,温度升高时化学吸附占优势。     

Theoretical and experimental investigation on granular bed dust filters

The separation efficiency of granular bed filters is high for small dust particles where diffusional deposition prevails, and coarse particles where inertial deposition is dominant. Between these two regions, there is a pronounced dip in the filtration efficiency curve. Prediction of filtration efficiency in the dip region is difficult due to interaction between inertia and diffusion.The theory presented in the present paper combines the effect of inertia, diffusion and interception on dust deposition, resulting in a single solution for the filtration efficiency accounting for all these effects.Experimental measurements are reported for a wide range of filtration parameters and dust particle characteristics. Agreement between theoretical and experimental values of the filtration efficiency was obtained for the case of an electrically neutral filter bed. It is shown that the presence of electrical charges enhances the filtration efficiency. This occurs particularly during the filtration process through fluidized beds comprized of dielectric materials.     

A study of the adsorption of NH3 and SO2 on leaf surfaces

The adsorption of NH₃ and SO₂ on the external leaf surface of bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and poplar (Populus euramericana L.) was studied. The adsorbed quantities increased strongly with increasing air humidity, indicating that water on the leaf surface plays a major role in the interaction of these gases with the leaf surface. On the other hand temperature in the range between 15 and 26°C had no significant influence. The adsorbed quantities of NH₃ at a specific air humidity appeared to be proportional to NH₃ concentration. This proportionality was less clear for SO₂. The affinity of SO₂ for the leaf surface was found to be approximately twice that of NH₃. A mixture of these gases in the air mutually stimulated their adsorption on the leaf. No significant desorption or uptake of these gases through the cuticle could be detected, indicating that the bulk of the adsorbed gases remains associated with the cuticle.     

Earthworms and radionuclides, with experimental investigations on the uptake and exchangeability of radiocaesium

The potential influence of earthworm activity on the mobility of radionuclides in soils and their subsequent availability for uptake by plants and transfer to higher trophic levels is briefly reviewed. The accumulation of caesium by the earthworm Aporrectodea longa from soil and from plant litter was investigated in laboratory experiments, as was the effect of reworking (through burrowing and ingestion) soil and soil with added organic material, on the extractability of caesium (ammonium acetate extraction). Soil was spiked with (134)Cs, organic matter with (137)Cs. In soil-fed worms, most of the radioactivity measured was eliminated with the gut contents; 5-25% of the ingested radioactivity was retained or assimilated. Loss of caesium from soil-fed worms followed a two component curve, with an initial rapid loss due to gut clearance (half-life of loss (Tb1/2) of about 0.2-0.6 days) and a slower loss of assimilated caesium (Tb1/2 of 15-26 days). Loss rates of assimilated caesium from worms fed on fragmented apple leaves were found to have half-lives of 18-54 days. Assimilation of caesium from apple leaves was higher than from soil, ranging from 55-100% of the activity measured before gut clearance. Dry weight transfer factors (concentration in worm tissue/concentration in substrate) for worms cleared of their gut contents were similar for the two substrates 0.04 and 0.04 for two loss experiments with worms fed on radioactive soil, and 0.03 and 0.05 for worms fed on apple leaves. After three months of reworking soil and soil/organic mixtures, A. longa was found to have no measurable effect on the extractable fraction of caesium. If earthworms have any subtle effects they were masked by changes in availability that occurred when the spiked soil and organic substrates were mixed together. Only about half of the extractable fraction in soil was recovered when soil was mixed with organic material suggesting that some of the labile fraction in soil had become complexed with organic material. This exchange occurred in substrate mixtures with and without worms. The limitation of chemical extraction procedures is discussed and suggestions for further work are presented.     

The adsorption of short single-stranded DNA oligomers to mineral surfaces

We studied the adsorption of short single-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid (ssDNA) oligomers, of approximately 30 nucleotides (nt) in length, of varying sequence, adenine + guanine + cytosine (AGC) content, and propensity to form secondary structure, to equal surface area samples of olivine, pyrite, calcite, hematite, and rutile in 0.1 M NaCl, 0.05 M pH 8.1 KHCO₃ buffer. Although the mineral surfaces have widely varying points of zero charge, under these conditions they show remarkably similar adsorption of ssDNA regardless of oligomer characteristics. Mineral surfaces appear to accommodate ssDNA comparably, or ssDNA oligomers of this length are able to find binding sites of comparable strength and density due to their flexibility, despite the disparate surface properties of the different minerals. This may partially be due charge shielding by the ionic strength of the solutions tested, which are typical of many natural environments. These results may have some bearing on the adsorption and accumulation of biologically derived nucleic acids in sediments as well as the abiotic synthesis of nucleic acids before the origin of life.     

苯胺-邻氨基酚共聚物对水中Hg(Ⅱ)吸附性能的研究

利用化学氧化法合成了苯胺-邻氨基苯酚的共聚物,并通过静态实验研究了材料对水中汞离子的吸附性能。研究结果表明,该共聚物对废水中汞离子有优异的去除效果,其吸附容量可达212.13 mg/g;吸附等温线符合Langmu ir单层吸附模型,动力学过程符合准二级动力学模型;溶液pH值对吸附影响不是很大,pH 5~10范围都有较好的吸附效果;氯离子易与汞离子形成水溶性更强的络合物,对共聚物的吸附有很大的抑制作用。     

Release flux of mercury from different environmental surfaces in Chongqing, China

An investigation was conducted to estimate mercury emission to the atmosphere from different environmental surfaces and to assess its contribution to the local mercury budget in Chongqing, China. Mercury flux was measured using dynamic flux chamber (DFC) at six soil sites of three different areas (mercury polluted area, farmland and woodland) and four water surfaces from August 2003 to April 2004. The mercury emission fluxes were 3.5 ± 1.2–8.4 ± 2.5 ng m⁻² h⁻¹ for three shaded forest sites, 85.8 ± 32.4 ng m⁻² h⁻¹ for farming field, 12.3 ± 9.8–733.8 ± 255 ng m⁻² h⁻¹ for grassland sites, and 5.9 ± 12.6–618.6 ± 339 ng m⁻² h⁻¹ for water surfaces. Mercury exchange fluxes were generally higher from air/water surfaces than from air/soil surfaces. The mercury negative fluxes were found in tow soil sites at overcast days (mean = −6.4 ± 1.5 ng m⁻² h⁻¹). The diurnal and seasonal variations of mercury flux were observed in all sites. The mercury emission responded positively to the solar radiation, but negatively to the relative humidity. The mercury flux from air/soil surfaces was significantly correlated with soil temperature, which was well described by an Arrhenius-type expression with activation energy of 31.1 kcal mol⁻¹. The annual mercury emission to the atmosphere from land surface is about 1.787 t of mercury in Chongqing.     

Theoretical interpretation of the adsorption of amoxicillin on activated carbon via physical model

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The paper describes a theoretical analysis of the adsorption of amoxicillin (AMX) onto two activated carbons pyrolysed at either 600 or 700 °C...     

稻壳活性炭对单质汞吸附性能的实验研究

利用农业废弃物稻壳制得了一种廉价的脱汞活性炭。该活性炭由稻壳经炭化、FeCl3活化、酸洗水洗和干燥工艺制得。在固定床吸附条件下,对不同的活化剂浸渍液料比、活化剂质量分数、活化温度、活化时间下所制得的活性炭对单质汞的吸附性能进行了实验研究。结果表明,80℃下,该活性炭对单质汞的脱除效率于180 min内可平均达84.71%,且保持相对稳定。     

Deposition and adsorption of the air pollutant HNO3 vapor to soil surfaces

Deposition of nitric acid (HNO₃) vapor to soils has been evaluated in three experimental settings: (1) continuously stirred tank reactors with the pollutant added to clean air, (2) open-top chambers at high ambient levels of pollution with and without filtration reducing particulate nitrate levels, (3) two field sites with high or low pollution loads in the coastal sage plant community of southern California. The results from experiment (1) indicated that the amount of extractable NO₃⁻ from isolated sand, silt and clay fractions increased with atmospheric concentration and duration of exposure. After 32 days, the highest absorption of HNO₃ was determined for clay, followed by silt and sand. While the sand and silt fractions showed a tendency to saturate, the clay samples did not after 32 days of exposure under highly polluted conditions. Absorption of HNO₃ occurred mainly in the top 1 mm layer of the soil samples and the presence of water increased HNO₃ absorption by about 2-fold. Experiment (2) indicated that the presence of coarse particulate NO₃⁻ could effectively block absorption sites of soils for HNO₃ vapor. Experiment (3) showed that soil samples collected from open sites had about 2.5 more extractable NO₃⁻ as compared to samples collected from beneath shrub canopies. The difference in NO₃⁻ occurred only in the upper 1–2 cm as no significant differences in NO₃⁻ concentrations were found in the 2–5 cm soil layers. Extractable NO₃⁻ from surface soils collected from a low-pollution site ranged between 1 and 8 μg NO₃–N g⁻¹, compared to a maximum of 42 μg NO₃–N g⁻¹ for soils collected from a highly polluted site. Highly significant relationship between HNO₃ vapor doses and its accumulation in the upper layers of soils indicates that carefully prepared soil samples (especially clay fraction) may be useful as passive samplers for evaluation of ambient concentrations of HNO₃ vapor.     

Determination of the adsorptive capacity and adsorption isotherm of vapor-phase mercury chloride on powdered activated carbon using thermogravimetric analysis

This study investigated the use of thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) to determine the adsorptive capacity and adsorption isotherm of vapor-phase mercury chloride on powdered activated carbon (PAC). The technique is commonly applied to remove mercury-containing air pollutants from gas streams emitted from municipal solid waste incinerators. An alternative form of powdered activated carbon derived from a pyrolyzed tire char was prepared for use herein. The capacity of waste tire-derived PAC to adsorb vapor-phase HgCl2 was successfully measured using a self-designed TGA adsorption system. Experimental results showed that the maximum adsorptive capacities of HgCl2 were 1.75, 0.688, and 0.230 mg of HgCl2 per gram of powdered activated carbon derived from carbon black at 30, 70, and 150 degrees C for 500 microg/m3 of HgCl2, respectively. Four adsorption isotherms obtained using the Langmuir, Freundlich, Redlich-Peterson, and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) models were used to simulate the adsorption of HgCl2. The comparison of experimental data associated with the four adsorption isotherms indicated that BET fit the experimental results better than did the other isotherms at 30 degrees C, whereas the Freundlich isotherm fit the experimental results better at 70 and 150 degrees C. Furthermore, the calculations of the parameters associated with Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms revealed that the adsorption of HgCl2 by PAC-derived carbon black favored adsorption at various HgCl2, concentrations and temperatures.