Abstract

A heavy metal ion adsorbent (HFPANF) with high surface area was obtained from polyacrylonitrile fibers with fibrillation and alkali hydrolysis, and an activated carbon fiber filter was prepared by using HFPANF as the binder. The surface area of polyacrylonitrile was 48.64 m2/g due to fibrillation, which also led to the carboxyl content of the HFPANF up to 3.4mmol/g. Batch adsorption experiments on Cu2+ and Pb2+ showed that the adsorption capacities of HFPANF for Cu2+ and Pb2+ were 47.5mg/g and 54.3mg/g. The adsorption kinetics showed that the adsorption reached equilibrium at 90min and that the adsorption followed the pseudo-second order model. It indicates that the adsorption process is chemisorption. HFPANF formed a single tooth chelate with Cu and a double tooth chelate with Pb. HFPANF-ACF filter was prepared by wet molding technique. When the HFPANF content was 30%, the filter reached a compressive strength of 15.37MPa and its maximum flux was 180 L/h. 2.5mg/L of Cu and Pb were used for dynamic adsorption experiments and the heavy metal removal rate was still above 95% after filtering 600 L. The pressure drop of HFPANF-ACF filter was much smaller compared with that of GAC filter due to the combined effect of fibrillated nanofibers and ACF, which can improve the filtration efficiency of the filter.

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