Adsorption of uranyl ions on kaolinite, montmorillonite, humic acid and composite clay material

• Tipo: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 2013

Autores

Bruno Campos (Autor) Outra; Javier Aguilar Carrillo (Autor) Outra; Manuel Algarra (Autor) Outra; Mario A Goncalves (Autor) Outra; Enrique Rodriguez Castellon (Autor) Outra; Joaquim C G E Esteves da Silva (Autor) FCUP; Iuliu Bobos (Autor) FCUP

Revista

Título: Applied Clay Science

Vol. 85

Páginas: 53-63

ISSN: 0169-1317

Editora: Elsevier

Indexação

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Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias > Engenharia dos materiais

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-008-EP9

DOI: 10.1016/j.clay.2013.08.046

Abstract (EN): Adsorption of uranyl ions onto kaolinite, montmorillonite, humic acid and composite clay material (both clays and humic acid) was studied by measuring the system response to clay suspensions (pre-equilibrated with or without uranyl) and to perturbations of the solution chemistry. Adsorption behavior of selected materials under the frame of batch experiments was tested at high uranyl concentrations (6-1170 mu g/mL; 2.5 x 10(-2) to 4.9 mu M), whereas that under flow through continuous stirred reactor experiments was tested at low concentrations (1.00 x 10(-4) to 1.18 x 10(-4) M). Both experiments were developed at pH 4.5 and ionic strength 02 mM. The adsorption experiments follow a Langmuir isotherm model with a good correlation coefficient (R-2 > 0.97). The calculated amount of adsorbed and desorbed uranyl was carried out by numeric integration of the experimental data, whereas the desorption rates were determined from the breakthrough curve experiments. Kaolinite with highly disordered structure adsorbed less uranyl (3.86 x 10(-6) mol/g) than well-ordered kaolinite (1.76 x 10(-5) mol/g). Higher amount of uranyl was adsorbed by montmorillonite (3.60 x 10(-5) mol/g) and only half of adsorbed amount was desorbed (1.85 x 10(-5) mol/g). The molecular interactions between kaolinite, montmorillonite, humic acid, composite material and saturated uranyl ion solutions were studied by molecular fluorescence, infrared and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The Stem-Volmer constant obtained for montmorillonite (2.6 x 10(3) M-1) is higher than for kaolinite (0.3 x 10(3) M-1). Molecular vibrations of Si-O stretching and Al-OH bending related to hydroxylated groups ( SiOH or AlOH) of kaolinite and montmorillonite show structural changes when uranyl ions are adsorbed. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy shows that the U 4f(7/2) core level signals occur at 380.5 eV in either kaolinite or montmorillonite that resulted from the interaction of aluminol surface sites with the (UO2)(3)(OH)(5)(+).

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 11