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An investigation of chitosan for sorption of radionuclides

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  • Chitosan is a biopolymer resulting from the deacetylation of chitin, the second most abundant biopolymer in nature. Chitosan has been successfully used in systems to remove metal ions and other pollutants from wastewater. Chitosan has shown promise as a sorbent for radionuclides in some aqueous waste streams. The sorption of these radionuclides by chitosan is studied to determine if chitosan could be used as a sorbent for aqueous waste streams containing these metals. The effect of various experimental conditions including sorbent particle size, agitation rate, hydration, temperature, pH, metal concentration and sorbent concentration are examined in this study. Results showed that sorption depends on the availability of access sites, controlled by the specific surface area of the sorbent. Sorption was observed to decrease with increasing temperature. The sorption isotherms and kinetics for Co(II), Eu(III) and U(VI) sorption onto chitosan were determined experimentally by batch sorption. Isotherms were fitted using the Langmuir and Freundlich models. Kinetics were modeled using the pseudo- first order, pseudo-second order, Elovich, and intraparticle diffusion models in order to determine possible rate-limiting steps. Most data were well described by the pseudo- second order and Elovich models. Multi-linearity was observed in the intraparticle diffusion model. The sorption capacity of the metals on chitosan was found to follow the order Co < Eu < U.
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