Abstract
The pretreated brown algae Laminaria japonica was used to adsorb and desorb Au2+, Ag+, Cu2+ and Ni2+ ions from electroplating wastewater in this article. The results indicated that the biosorption process of Au2+, Ag+, Cu2+ and Ni2+ ions could be divided into two steps. The first step was physical adsorption and reached equilibrium quickly, in less than 15 min. This adsorption process followed the pseudo-second order model well. The desorption process of Au2+, Ag+, Cu2+ and Ni2+ ions was similar to the adsorption process using this pretreated algae biosorbent. So as the desoption process also followed the pseudo-second order model well. We used HCl as the elution in the desorption experiment. The results showed that using HCl as the elution not only had a good desorption capacity of heavy metals ions, and the brown algae still had a certain desorption capacity after repeatly adsorption-desorption for 3 times. Although existing the impact of environmental conditions, the biosorption capacities could also reach above 75% basically in the field experiment. Laminaria japonica can be used as an efficient biosorbent material for the removal and recovery of heavy metal ions from electroplating wastewater.
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