Buse Nur Tunçel, BSc, Begüm Göksoy, BSc, Ozan Ali Dündar, MSc, and Özgür Arar, PhD
Department of Chemistry, Ege University, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey

Part of the book: Advances in Chemistry Research. Volume 76

Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.52305/XMAA8815

Abstract

In this work, a chelating resin containing iminodiacetic acid (Purolite MTS 9300) and aminophosphonic acid (Purolite MTS 9500) with functional groups were used to remove beryllium (Be2+) from aqueous solutions. The effect of resin dose and initial pH of the solution on the removal rate of Be2+ was investigated. The results showed that the removal of Be2+ is pH-dependent and optimal removal is achieved in the range of 3-5. Furthermore, the kinetics of Be2+ removal is faster for aminophosphonate-containing resins than for iminodiacetate-containing resin. Removal reached equilibrium in 90 minutes for iminodiacetic resins and 45 minutes for aminophosphonic acid-containing resin. In addition, the sorption isotherm studies showed that the sorption of Be2+ obeyed the Langmuir isotherm model for both resins. However, the maximum sorption capacity of the iminodiacetic-containing resin was 19.14 mg-Be2+/g and 9.66 mg-Be2+/g for the aminophosphonic acid-containing resin. Moreover, the thermodynamic parameters showed that the sorption of Be2+ to the resins was spontaneous. The exhausted resins can be regenerated with a 0.5 M H2SO4 solution with more than 99% efficiency.

Keywords: aminophosphonic acid, beryllium, chelating resin, iminodiacetic acid, water treatment

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