Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2009, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (5): 1046.

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Adsorption of Natural Organic Acids Using Bi-function Resin

WANG Jin-Nan1,2, LI Ai-Min1,2*, XU Li1,2, ZHOU Yang1,2   

    1. State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China;
    2. Research Center of Organic Toxic Substance Control and Resource Reuse of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing 210038, China
  • Received:2008-09-25 Online:2009-05-10 Published:2009-05-10
  • Contact: LI Ai-Min, E-mail: liaimin99@vip.sina.com

Abstract:

Natural organic acids are widely existed in dissolved natural organic matter(DOM) in environment, which can form THMs in drinking water disinfection. In this paper, a new kind bi-function resin modified by amine function groups was synthesized to remove these acids from water. Comparing with commercial resin XAD-7, the higher adsorption capacities of fulvic, tannic and gallic acids were observed, such advantages had been explained on the basis of chemical function groups of WJN-07. All the isotherm data for resins in adsorption of three acids can be well fitted by the Freundlich equations, and the equilibrium adsorption capacities of tannic acid are obviously higher than fulvic and gallic acids. Furthermore, values of the enthalpy changes show the adsorption of TA on WJN-07 to be a chemical and endothermic adsorption process. Finally, the changes in the amount of three acids adsorbed on the resin WJN-07 as a function of Pb2+ were studied. The capacity of the resin WJN-07 to adsorb these three acids in the presence of Pb2+ is significant higher than in the absence of this metal, such changes owing to the interactions of Pb2+ with the adsorbed acids and un-adsorbed acids in solution.

Key words: Bi-function resin, Natural organic acid, Adsorption

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