TITLE:
Adsorption and Desorption Mechanisms of Methylene Blue Removal with Iron-Oxide Coated Porous Ceramic Filter
AUTHORS:
Fangwen LI, Xiaoai WU, Songjiang MA, Zhongjian XU, Wenhua LIU, Fen LIU
KEYWORDS:
Iron-Oxide Coated Porous Ceramics Filter, Adsorption, Desorption, Methylene Blue, Surface Complex Reaction, Reuse
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Water Resource and Protection,
Vol.1 No.1,
May
14,
2009
ABSTRACT: Adsorption and desorption mechanisms of methylene blue (MB) removal with iron-oxide coated porous ce-ramics filter (IOCPCF) were investigated in batch and column mode. The results revealed that MB removal mechanisms included physical adsorption and chemical adsorption, of which chemical adsorption by surface ligand complex reaction played a dominant role after infrared spectrum analysis. Recycling agents were se-lected from dilute nitric acid (pH=3), sodium hydroxide solution (pH=12) and distilled water. Among three agents, dilute metric acid (pH=3) was the best recycling agent. Regeneration rate of IOCPCF arrived at 82.56% at batch adsorption and regeneration was finished in 75min at column adsorption. Adsorp-tion-desorption cycles of IOCPCF after batch and column adsorption were four and three times, respectively. Further, compared with fresh IOCPCF, MB removal rate with these desorbed IOCPCF adsorption only slightly decreased, which suggested that IOCPCF should be used repeatedly.