The equilibrium uptake of phenol and lead(II) ions, both singly and in combination, by granular activated carbon was studied in a batch system. The initial pH, temperature, mixing speed and contact time were fixed a...The equilibrium uptake of phenol and lead(II) ions, both singly and in combination, by granular activated carbon was studied in a batch system. The initial pH, temperature, mixing speed and contact time were fixed at 4, 30 ℃, 250 rpm and 6 hrs respectively. Adsorption isotherms were developed for both the single and binary component systems and expressed by ten models for single and four models for binary systems and model parameters were estimated by the non-linear regression method using STATISTICA version-6 and EXCEEL-2007 software. The maximum loading capacity (qm) of the phenol was 66.8234, 60.4823 mg/g and 37.0370, 13.0988 mg/g for lead in single and binary systems respectively. Desorption experiments indicate that the desorption efficiency with 0.1 M NaOH, 0.1 M HCI solution reaches 97.35%, 98% for phenol and lead respectively. There was only 3.58%, 4.93% decrease in removal efficiency for phenol and lead respectively when used regenerated GAC for one cycle.展开更多
文摘The equilibrium uptake of phenol and lead(II) ions, both singly and in combination, by granular activated carbon was studied in a batch system. The initial pH, temperature, mixing speed and contact time were fixed at 4, 30 ℃, 250 rpm and 6 hrs respectively. Adsorption isotherms were developed for both the single and binary component systems and expressed by ten models for single and four models for binary systems and model parameters were estimated by the non-linear regression method using STATISTICA version-6 and EXCEEL-2007 software. The maximum loading capacity (qm) of the phenol was 66.8234, 60.4823 mg/g and 37.0370, 13.0988 mg/g for lead in single and binary systems respectively. Desorption experiments indicate that the desorption efficiency with 0.1 M NaOH, 0.1 M HCI solution reaches 97.35%, 98% for phenol and lead respectively. There was only 3.58%, 4.93% decrease in removal efficiency for phenol and lead respectively when used regenerated GAC for one cycle.