Biosorption of Ni(II), Cu(II) and Pb(II) by Punica gerana-tum from Aqueous Solutions英文文献资料.docVIP

J. Water Resource and Protection, 2010, 2, 701-705 doi:10.4236/jwarp.2010.28080 Published Online August 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jwarp) Biosorption of Ni(II), Cu(II) and Pb(II) by Punica geranatum from Aqueous Solutions Peyman Salehi, Behvar Asghari, Fatemeh Mohammadi Department of Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants and Drugs Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran E-mail: p-salehi@sbu.ac.ir Received April 7, 2010; revised May 31, 2010; accepted July 15, 2010 Abstract In this paper removal of Ni(II), Cu(II) and Pb(II) ions from aqueous solutions by leaves of Punica geranatum were investigated. The biosorption was found to be pH dependent and the highest uptake of all the men- tioned metal ions occurred at pH 4. Furthermore, the influence of other parameters such as initial metal ions concentration and contact time of biosorbent and sorbents were evaluated. Equilibrium data fitted very well to Langmuir model for all studied metals. It was also concluded that the Freundlich isotherm cannot be enough appropriate for the equilibrium data of all three metals. Biosorption of Ni(II), Cu(II) and Pb(II), reached equilibrium in 60, 60 and 30 min, respectively. Moreover, the adsorption rate of the metals can be best described by the second order model. Keywords: Biosorption, Punica geranatum, Langmuir, Freundlich, Kinetic Models 1. Introduction is as low as 200 μg/ml [9]. There are two general mechanisms for the uptake of dissolved metal ions from water by biological biomass. The first one, metabolism-independent surface reactions, encompasses surface precipitation and surface com- plexation. This step is very rapid and occurs in a short time after the biomass comes into contact with the metals. The second one, however, is metabolism-dependent up- take step, in which the metal is transported in to the cells. This stage is slower than the first one [6,10]. Several mathematical