1 Introduction
2 Experimental
2.1 Materials and their characteristics
Symbol of polymer | Weight average molecular weight (kDa) | Ionic groups content (%) | pK | Dissociation degree (%) at pH | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3 | 5 | 7 | 9 | ||||
AN PAM 30% | 14,000 | 30 | 3.2 | 38.7 | 98.7 | 99.98 | 99.99 |
CT PAM 35% | 7000 | 35 | 9.3 | 99.99 | 99.99 | 99.44 | 64 |
2.2 Spectrophotometric measurements
2.3 Potentiometric titrations
2.4 Spectroscopic measurements
3 Results and discussion
3.1 Adsorbent characteristic
3.2 Stability studies
3.3 Adsorption of polyacrylamide and Cr(VI) on the montmorillonite surface
System | d001 (Å) |
---|---|
Montmorillonite | 14.92 |
Montmorillonite/AN PAM 30% | 13.47 |
Montmorillonite/CT PAM 35% | 14.54 |
Montmorillonite/AN PAM 30%/Cr(VI) | 13.41 |
Montmorillonite/CT PAM 35%/Cr(VI) | 14.42 |
3.4 Effects of Cr(VI) concentration on the polyacrylamide adsorbed amount on the montmorillonite surface
3.5 Influence of PAM presence and Cr(VI) concentration on the Cr(VI) adsorbed amount on the montmorillonite surface
3.6 Electrokinetic properties of montmorillonite particles without and with polyacrylamide and Cr(VI)
System | pHpzc |
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Montmorillonite | 5.02 |
Montmorillonite/AN PAM 30% | 4.93 |
Montmorillonite/CT PAM 35% | 5.47 |
Montmorillonite/Cr(VI) | 6.11 |
Montmorillonite/AN PAM 30%/Cr(VI) | 5.44 |
Montmorillonite/CT PAM 35%/Cr(VI) | 5.36 |