Abstract
The recovery of palladium metal is essential in order to meet its growing global demand and also to address water pollution crisis. Herein, MIL-101(Cr)/ED was fabricated from waste polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles and modified using ethylenediamine (ED) to retrieve divalent palladium (Pd(II)) metal ions from aqueous environment. The successful grafting of ED moieties onto MIL-101(Cr) was established by the appearance of broad bands at around 2800–3300 cm−1 on the Fourier transform infrared spectrum which was supported by the increase in binding energy using density functional theory. The adsorption experiments revealed that higher Pd(II) ion intake occurred using 30 mg of MIL-101(Cr)/ED in acidic media of pH = 3.0. The data fit better on the Langmuir isotherm with the correlation coefficient (R2) 0.9089. At 25 °C, the MIL-101(Cr)/ED achieved a substantial enhancement in the intake capacities of 454.2 mg.g−1. Kinetics data demonstrated to comply with pseudo-second order, achieving a rapid rate of Pd(II) adsorption by the MIL-101(Cr)/ED in less than 3 min given by the rate constant k2 = 0.02065 g.mg−1.min−1. The MIL-101(Cr)/ED has high affinity for Pd(II) ions as more than 80% removal was achieved even in presence of other ions. These observations revealed the potential utilization of MIL-101(Cr)/ED as an adsorbent to efficiently extract Pd(II) ions from wastewater.
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