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STUDY ON THE ADSORPTION OF PHENOL BY CHITOSAN FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTION

Jin-long Yan

School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng 224003, China

Corresponding author.

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Abstract

The effects of pH, initial concentration and temperature on the adsorption of phenol by chitosan are investigated in this paper. The isothermal data was applied to Langmuir linear and the Freundlich linear isotherm equation, and the thermodynamic parameters (ΔH, ΔG, ΔS) were calculated according to the values of binding Langmuir constant, K_L. Results indicated that the adsorption between chitosan and phenol was significantly physical in nature, the negative ΔH constant at lower temperature confirmed that more phenol was adsorbed by chitosan at lower temperature. The kinetics of the sorption process of phenol on chitosan was investigated using the pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order kinetics, and results showed that the second order equation model provided the best correlation with the experimental results.

The author acknowledges the financial support from the Excellent Youth Teacher Fund of Yancheng Institute of Technology (No. ZKC200401).

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