화학공학소재연구정보센터
홈 로그인 로그아웃 연락처 사이트맵
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.18, No.1, 295-302, January, 2012
DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2011.11.035  Export Citation
Kinetic, isotherm and thermodynamic study of nitrate adsorption from aqueous solution using modified rice husk
Reza Katal, Mazyar Sharifzadeh Baei1, †, Hooman Taher Rahmati, and Hossein Esfandian2
  • Department of Chemical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
  • 1Chemical Engineering Department, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, Islamic Azad University, Amol, Iran
  • 2Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
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In this article, we prepared anionic sorbent using rice husk (RC). Anionic rice husk (ARC) structural characteristics and adsorption properties for nitrate removal from aqueous solution were investigated. The sorption of NO3^(-) by batch method is carried out. The optimum conditions of sorption were found to be: a sorbent dose of 0.4 g in 100 mL of NO3^(-) solution, contact time of 90 min, pH = 7. In optimum condition, removal efficiency was 94.3% for the NO3^(-). The nitrate adsorption process was well described by the pseudo-second-order kinetic model, and the experimental isotherm data fitted well with the Langmuir, Freundlich and Dubinin-Radushkevich (D-R) isotherm models. Thermodynamic parameters such as Gibbs free energy change, enthalpy change and entropy change were calculated and the results showed that the adsorption of nitrate on ARC was spontaneous and exothermic in nature. The effect of other anions were also studied and was found that the anions reduced the nitrate adsorption in the order of carbonate > chloride > phosphate > sulphate. ARC was used for the removal of NO3^(-) from real wastewater (urban wastewater) that high performance of adsorbent was considerable.
Keywords:Rice husk;Nitrate;Kinetic;Isotherm;Thermodynamic
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