DENG Hong-mei, WANG Yao-long, WU Hong-hai, LIU Tao, ZHANG Zi-jun, WU Gao-yuan,CHEN Yong-heng
. 2015, 14(3): 17-23.
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Nanometer titanium dioxide (nano-TiO2) removal of Tl(I) from aqueous solution and its preliminary mechanism were investigated by using the batch adsorption experiments. The adsorption of Tl(I) onto nano-TiO2 decreased with the increase of solution pH. When the pH of solution was higher than the isoelectric point (6.0), the adsorption was fast and adsorption efficiency reached up to 99% at pH10. The adsorption of Tl(I) onto nano-TiO2 reached equilibrium within 30 minutes and was fitted well by the pseudo-first-order model. Moreover, when the initial concentrations of Tl(I) in solution was 10~1 000 mg·L-1, the adsorption was fitted well by the Langmuir isotherm and at temperature 288, 303, 318 K the maximum adsorption of Tl(I) onto nano-TiO2 were up to 15.7,13.8,11.6 mg·g-1, respectively. The value of ΔG and ΔH were negative during the adsorption, which showed that the adsorption of Tl(I) onto nano-TiO2 was essentially an exothermic and spontaneous process. These results indicated that nano-TiO2 could be a very promising adsorbent for removal of Tl(I).