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Removal of Arsenic from Aqueous Solution by Fe(III)-Impregnated Sorbent Prepared from Sugarcane Bagasse

https://doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2013.13508
Meina Liang
College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, Guangxi Province, P.R. China ; College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Jian-Gan Road 12, Guilin 541004, P.R. China
Yinian Zhu
College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Jian-Gan Road 12, Guilin 541004, P.R. China
Dunqiu Wang
College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Jian-Gan Road 12, Guilin 541004, P.R. China
Hua Zhang
College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, Guangxi Province, P.R. China
Zongqiang Zhu
College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, Guangxi Province, P.R. China
Zhihong Chen
College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Jian-Gan Road 12, Guilin 541004, P.R. China

Corresponding Author(s) : Yinian Zhu

zhuyinian@163.com

Asian Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 25 No. 6 (2013): Vol 25 Issue 6

Abstract

An Fe(III)-impregnated adsorbent was prepared from sugarcane bagasse and FeCl3 solution via carbonization/activation in a muffle furnace at 500 ºC for 4 h. The sorption removal of arsenic from aqueous solution by the prepared sorbent was then studied in a batch system. In order to investigate the mechanism of sorption, this paper employs the four different kinetic models to fit to the experimental data. The studies showed that within 0.5 h this sorbent was able to remove 96.96, 95.99 and 94.60 % of arsenic from water containing an initial arsenic concentration of 1, 2 and 4 mg/L, respectively. At initial pH from 3 to 12, the arsenic concentration of treated solution was lesser than 5 μg/L at the initial arsenic concentration of 2 mg/L, it was far below the U.S. EPA standard (10 μg/L). The pseudo-second-order kinetic model generated the best fit to the experimental data with regression coefficients R2 = 1.0000.

Keywords

Fe(III)-impregnation Sorbent Sugarcane bagasse Arsenic Sorption removal
Liang, M., Zhu, Y., Wang, D., Zhang, H., Zhu, Z., & Chen, Z. (2013). Removal of Arsenic from Aqueous Solution by Fe(III)-Impregnated Sorbent Prepared from Sugarcane Bagasse. Asian Journal of Chemistry, 25(6), 3041–3048. https://doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2013.13508
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