ISOTHERM, KINETIC AND THERMODYNAMIC STUDY OF THE EFFICACY OF ACTIVATED AND UNACTIVATED HUMAN HEAD HAIR FOR THE REMOVAL OF HEAVY METALS FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTION
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https://doi.org/10.53555/eijas.v9i1.163Keywords:
Human head hair, activated hair, biosorption, adsorption isotherm, kinetics, thermodynamicAbstract
(H1 and H2) for removing Cd(II) and Pb(II) ions under different conditions, has been checked. It was found that H2 and H1 showed high biosorption capacities ((93.5 and 77.99 %) and (84.25 and 66.5 %)) for lead and cadmium removal respectively. The phosphoric acid activated hair (H2) showed better biosorption capacity. This could be attributed to the higher surface area and more number of amines and sulfonate groups, which is confirmed by the SEM and FT-IR analysis, respectively. Lead was more effectively adsorbed than cadmium by both adsorbents. Adsorption increased with increase in adsorption temperature, contact time and adsorbent dosage and decreased with increase in initial concentration of the metal ions. Adsorption also increased with increase in pH of the metal solutions up to a pH value of 6, beyond which the metal ions were precipitated out of their solutions as their hydroxides. The pseudo-second order kinetic model is more likely to predict kinetic behavior of the metal biosorption process for whole contact time range, with the chemical sorption being the rate-controlling step. The metal sorption closely followed Freundlich and Temkin models. The Freundlich isotherm has R2 values of 0.969 for H2 and 0.765 for H1, while Temkin has R2 values of 0.969 for H2 and 0.856 for H1 which indicated that the adsorption behaviour was heterogeneously distributed. Negative standard Gibb’s energy indicates that the heavy metal biosorption process is thermodynamically feasible and spontaneous. Thus, this work showed that activated human head hair has good potential as an adsorbent in the treatment of lead and cadmium contaminated waste water.
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