Study on adsorption of Cr, Fe, Ni from stainless steel pickling wastewater by activated carbon

Author

Zeng, Yuan ; Zhao, Junxue ; Ma, Hongzhou ; Li, Fei ; Li, Xiaoming

Author_Institution

Sch. of Metall. Eng., XAUAT, Xi´´an, China

fYear

2011

fDate

24-26 June 2011

Firstpage

7120

Lastpage

7123

Abstract

The thermodynamics and kinetics on adsorption of Cr, Fe and Ni by activated carbon from stainless pickling wastewater are studied. The results show that the adsorption capacity of Cr, Fe and Ni are 8.198, 1.629 and 2 mg/g, respectively. The Freundlich isotherm model can fit the multi-component system better than the Langmuir isotherm, while the Langmuir - Freundlich equation is the best choice to fit them. The equilibrium times are 120, 60, 90 min, and the pseudo-second-order equation can fit the adsorption well The results indicate that Cr is mainly chemically adsorbed on activated carbon with ion exchange adsorption, while physical adsorption dominants the adsorption of Fe, and Ni is mainly of ion exchange adsorption.

Keywords

activated carbon; adsorption; chromium; iron; nickel; pickling (materials processing); stainless steel; wastewater treatment; Cr; Fe; Freundlich isotherm model; Langmuir isotherm; Langmuir-Freundlich equation; Ni; activated carbon; ion exchange adsorption; kinetics; multicomponent system; pseudosecond-order equation; stainless steel pickling wastewater; thermodynamics; Carbon dioxide; Iron; Mathematical model; Nickel; Pickling; Steel; Wastewater; Langmuir-Freundlich isotherm; activated carbon; multi-component system; stainless steel pickling wastewater;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation Engineering (RSETE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9172-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RSETE.2011.5966006

Filename

5966006