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Adsorption Characteristics of Cu2+ onto Zeolite from Pharmaceutical Industrial Wastewater

Fenghua Liu, Yonghui Song, Ping Zeng, Jianfeng Peng, Shuhu Xiao, Liang Duan, Guanglei Qiu, Jie Ye, Cunyi Song

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The adsorption of Cu2+ from pharmaceutical wastewater by zeolite was studied in a batch adsorption system. Factors inflflflfluencing copper adsorption such as pH (1-5), adsorbent dosage (5-50 g/L) and contact time (20-600 min)were investigated. The equilibrium of adsorption process was established in about 480 min, while pH was 5 and adsorbent dosage was 30 g/L. After the adsorption equilibrium was achieved, the removal efficiency of Cu2+ was above 99%. Acomparison of the kinetic models on the overall adsorption rate showed that the adsorption system was best described by the pseudo second-order kinetics. The adsorption equilibrium datafifififit best with the Langmuir isotherm.

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Key concepts: Adsorption, Zeolite, Wastewater, Kinetics, Langmuir adsorption model, Copper, Chemistry, Chemical engineering