Chemical Research in Chinese Universities ›› 2013, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (1): 144-149.doi: 10.1007/s40242-013-2070-6

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Adsorption of Zinc and Cyanide from Cyanide Effluents on Anionic Ion-exchange Resin

ZHANG Ya-li, FANG Tao, YU Xian-jin   

  1. School of Chemical Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255081, P. R. China
  • Received:2012-02-28 Revised:2012-08-03 Online:2013-02-01 Published:2013-01-23
  • Supported by:

    Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China(No.ZR2010EL006) and the High Education Science Technology Program of Shandong Province, China(No.J12LA04).

Abstract:

The adsorption of zinc and cyanide from cyanide effluents onto strong and weak basic anion exchange resins was studied in a batch adsorption system. Factors influencing the adsorption rates such as resin selection, resin amounts, contact time and temperature were studied and scanning electron microscopy-energy disperse spectroscopy(SEM-EDS) was used in the analysis. The present study shows that the adsorption capacity of resin 201×7 is better than that of resin 301. The adsorption process was relatively fast and came to equilibrium after 60 min. The kinetic data were analyzed with three models and the pseudo-second-order kinetic model was found to agree with the experimental data well. The equilibrium data could also be described well by Langmuir isotherm model. Thermodynamic parameters such as enthalpy change(ΔH0), free energy change(ΔG0) and entropy change(ΔS0) were calculated and the adsorption process was spontaneous and endothermic.

Key words: Ion-exchange, Adsorption, Adsorption isotherm, Adsorption kinetics, Thermodynamic parameter