The simultaneous adsorption of copper (Cu), cadmium (Cd), nickel (Ni), and lead (Pb) ions from spiked deionized water and
spiked leachate onto natural materials (peat A and B), by-product or waste materials (carbon-containing ash, paper pellets,
pine bark, and semi-coke), and synthetic materials (based on urea-formaldehyde resins, called blue and red adsorbents) or
mixtures thereof was investigated. The adsorbents that gave the highest metal removal efficiencies were peat A, a mixture
of peat B and carbon-containing ash, and a mixture of peat A and blue. At an initial concentration of 5 mg/l for each metal,
the removal of each species of metal ion from spiked water and spiked leachate solutions was very good (>90%) and good (>75%),
respectively. When the initial concentration of each metal in the solutions was twenty times higher (100 mg/l), there was
a noticeable decrease in the removal efficiency of Cu2+, Cd2+, and Ni2+, but not of Pb2+. Langmuir monolayer adsorption capacities, qm, on peat A were found to be 0.57, 0.37, and 0.36 mmol/g for Pb2+, Cd2+, and Ni2+, respectively. The order of metal adsorption capacity on peat A was the same in the case of competitive multimetal adsorption
conditions as it was for single-element adsorption, namely Pb2+ > Cd2+ ≥ Ni2+. The results show that peat alone (an inexpensive adsorbent) is a good adsorbent for heavy metal ions. 相似文献