High efficient removal effect of Cd2+ from wastewater by adsorption onto blood powder
- Received Date: 17/01/2017
- Accepted Date: 05/09/2016
- Available Online: 26/08/2017
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Key words:
- blood powder /
- wastewater /
- Cd2+ removal effect
Abstract: High efficient removal of Cd2+ in wastewater by blood powder was reported in this research.The results showed that the removal rate of Cd2+ in wastewater reached to 99.38% when 100 mL wastewater with 20 mg·L-1 Cd2+ was adsorbed by 4 g blood powder adsorbent after 2 hours at 25℃ and pH 5.The adsorption isotherms of blood powder to Cd2+ could be described by the Langmuir isotherm model (R2=0.999 7). The value of maximum adsorption capacity was 10.24 mg·g-1 based on the analysis of Langmuir model. In order to get higher removal rate of Cd2+, two steps adsorption were performed. In the first step adsorption, 5 g blood powder was added into 100 mL wastewater with 20 mg·L-1 Cd2+ in vibration at 25℃ and pH 5, followed by filtration after 2 hours. Then another 1 g blood powder was further added into the filtrate for the second adsorption under the same conditions. The results showed that residual concentration of Cd2+ further reduced to 0.006 mg·L-1 after two steps of absorption, which reached the emission standard of wastewater (GB 21900-2008, Cd2+ -1). These data showed that the blood powder had the higher removal capability of Cd2+ than activated carbon, sand, kaolinite and other regular adsorbents. Our results demonstrated an alternative way to the treatment of Cd2+-containing wastewater.