Influence of exchange group of modified glycidyl methacrylate polymer on phenol removal: A study by batch and continuous flow processes
| Autor: | Thiago Muza Aversa, Elizabete F. Lucas, Paulo C. S. Rocha, Carla Michele Frota da Silva |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Langmuir
Glycidyl methacrylate Environmental Engineering Base (chemistry) Polymers Inorganic chemistry 02 engineering and technology Wastewater 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Water Purification chemistry.chemical_compound Adsorption Humans Organic chemistry Phenol Ion-exchange resin Waste Management and Disposal 0105 earth and related environmental sciences chemistry.chemical_classification Chemistry General Medicine Polymer 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Epoxy Compounds Methacrylates Water treatment Ion Exchange Resins 0210 nano-technology Water Pollutants Chemical |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Environmental Management. 182:301-307 |
| ISSN: | 0301-4797 |
| Popis: | Contamination of water by phenol is potentially a serious problem due to its high toxicity and its acid character. In this way some treatment process to remove or reduce the phenol concentration before contaminated water disposal on the environment is required. Currently, phenol can be removed by charcoal adsorption, but this process does not allow easy regeneration of the adsorbent. In contrast, polymeric resins are easily regenerated and can be reused in others cycles of adsorption process. In this work, the interaction of phenol with two polymeric resins was investigated, one of them containing a weakly basic anionic exchange group (GD-DEA) and the other, a strongly basic group (GD-QUAT). Both ion exchange resins were obtained through chemical modifications from a base porous resin composed of glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) and divinyl benzene (DVB). Evaluation tests with resins were carried out with 30 mg/L of phenol in water solution, at pH 6 and 10, employing two distinct processes: (i) batch, to evaluate the effect of temperature, and (ii) continuous flow, to assess the breakthrough of the resins. Batch tests revealed that the systems did not follow the model proposed by Langmuir due to the negative values obtained for the constant b and for the maximum adsorption capacity, Q0. However, satisfactory results for the constants KF and n allowed assuming that the behavior of systems followed the Freundlich model, leading to the conclusion that resin GD-DEA had the best interaction with the phenol when in a solution having pH 10 (phenoxide ions). The continuous flow tests corroborated this conclusion since the performance of GD-DEA in removing phenol was also best at pH 10, indicating that the greater availability of the electron pair in the resin with the weakly basic donor group contributed to enhance the resin's interaction with the phenoxide ions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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