Nitrate sorption by organosmectites |
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| Authors: | S Gammoudi N Frini-Srasra E Srasra |
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| Institution: | 1. Laboratoire de physico-chimie des Matériaux minéraux et leurs applications, Centre National des Recherches en Sciences des Matériaux, Technopole de Borj Cédria, Tunisia;2. Departement de chimie, Faculté des Sciences de tunis, Université El Manar, Tunisia |
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| Abstract: | The use of organoclays as adsorbents in the remediation of polluted water has been the subject of many recent studies. In this present work, a Tunisian smectite modified by two cationic surfactants was used as a sorbent for the investigation of the adsorption kinetics, isotherms and thermodynamic parameters of nitrate ions at various contact time, initial concentrations and temperatures. Two simplified kinetic models, first-order and second-order, were used to predict the adsorption constants. It was found that the adsorption kinetics of nitrate was best described by the second-order model. Adsorption isotherms and equilibrium adsorption capacities were determined by the fittings of the experimental data to two well-known isotherm models including Langmuir and Freundlich. The results showed that Langmuir model appears to fit the adsorption better than Freundlich model. The equilibrium constants were used to calculate thermodynamic parameters, such as the change of free energy, enthalpy and entropy. |
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