Abstract
Sodium hydroxide treated rice hulls were investigated to preconcentrate, remove, and recover metal ions including Be2+, Al3+, Cr3+, CO2+, Ni2+, Cu2+, Zn2+, Sr2+, Ag+, Cd2+, Ba2+, and Pb2+ in both batch mode and column mode. Sodium hydroxide treatment significantly improved the removal efficiency for all metal ions of interest compared to the untreated rice hull. The removal kinetics were extremely fast for Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Sr, Cd, and Ba, which made the treated rice hull a promising economic green adsorbent to preconcentrate, remove, and recover low-level metal ions in column mode at relatively high throughput. The principal removal mechanism is believed to be the electrostatic attraction between the negatively charged rice hulls and the positively charged metal ions. pH had a drastic impact on the removal for different metal ions and a pH of 5 worked best for most of the metal ions of interest. Processed rice hulls provide an economic alternative to costly resins that are currently commercially available products designed for metal ion preconcentration for trace metal analysis, and more importantly, for toxic heavy metal removal and recovery from the environment.
Recommended Citation
Y. Dan et al., "Preparation of Green Biosorbent using Rice Hull to Preconcentrate, Remove and Recover Heavy Metal and Other Metal Elements from Water," Chemosphere, vol. 262, Elsevier, Jan 2021.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127940
Department(s)
Chemistry
Keywords and Phrases
Agricultural byproducts; Biomass; Column test; Heavy metal; Preconcentration; Rice hull
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
0045-6535; 1879-1298
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2021 Elsevier, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Publication Date
01 Jan 2021
PubMed ID
33182111
Comments
This research project was funded by Environmental ResearchCenter (ERC) at Missouri University of Science and Technology,Rolla, Missouri, USA and National Natural Science Foundation ofChina (51525806, 51878648).