Adsorption of Some Heavy Metal Ions onto Dernah's Clay

Authors

  • Ibraheim A. El-Sarsour Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Omar Almokhtar University , P.O. Box 919 Elbaida – Libya
  • Mohammad A. Kasem Faculty of Pharmacy, Omar Al-Mukhtar University, Al-Bayda - Libya,
  • Saber E. Mansour Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Omar Almokhtar University , P.O. Box 919 Elbaida – Libya

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54172/mjsc.v20i1.825

Abstract

 Kaolinite clay is considered as a good adsorbent material since it is easily available at low cost and high capacity . Clay samples were taken from Dernah (Libya) and thermally treated in 200 and 500 ºC in addition to room temperature . Equilibrium isotherms have been determined for the adsorption of some heavy metal ions, namely, Cu2+, Ni2+ and Zn2+ from aqueous solutions onto clays treated at different temperatures . The obtained results show that the maximum adsorption capacity for Cu2+, Ni2+ and Zn2+,  were 672, 620 and 589 ppm (for Clay-R), 672, 500 and 459 ppm (for Clay-200) and 427, 401 and 333 ppm (for Clay-500). Also, the untreated sample exposes higher adsorption than other calcined samples . Moreover, the order of the capacity is Cu2+> Ni2+ > Zn2+. The experimental results have been fitted with Langmuir and  Frendlich isotherms . The Langmuir isotherm better fitted the experimental data since the average percent deviations were lower than with Frendlich isotherm .

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2008-12-31

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El-Sarsour, I. A., Kasem, . M. A. ., & Mansour, S. E. . (2008). Adsorption of Some Heavy Metal Ions onto Dernah’s Clay. Al-Mukhtar Journal of Sciences, 20(1), 123–133. https://doi.org/10.54172/mjsc.v20i1.825

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