Abstract
The objective of this work was to assess the capability of organic hydrophobic polymeric resins Amberlite XAD‐4 and XAD‐7 to remove the pesticides alachlor and amitrole from water. The pesticides adsorption on the two different adsorbents was measured by batch equilibrium technique and isotherm types and parameters were estimated. Two theoretical models were applied based on a Freundlich and a Langmuir isotherms. The effect of pesticides chemical composition and structure as well as the nature of solid surface on the efficiency of adsorption was evaluated. The influence of pH also was studied. In low pH solutions adsorption of amitrole was higher upon the nonionic aliphatic acrylic ester copolymer XAD‐7 in comparison to the nonionic, crosslinked macroreticular copolymer of styrene divinylbenzene XAD‐4. In neutral and intermediate pH solutions the polar acrylic ester copolymer XAD‐7 was more effective to the retention of alachlor. The acrylic ester copolymer showed at pH 3 the lower effectiveness in alachlor removal from water. The data of the adsorption isotherms of pesticides upon the examined polymeric resins seemed to conform to both the Freundlich and the Langmuir isotherm models.
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