GADOLINIUM SORPTION ON MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES

Authors

  • Danijela Maksin
  • Marija Vukčević
  • Tatjana Đurkić
  • Ivana Stanišić
  • Tamara Bakić
  • Milena Radomirović
  • Antonije Onjia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7251/COMEN1901035M

Abstract

Rare earth metals are deemed to be the materials of future due to their numerous applications including medical diagnostics, nuclear facilities, petroleum industry, etc. In this paper, multi-walled carbon nanotubes, which possess unique physicochemical properties, were evaluated as sorbents for lanthanoid gadolinium from aqueous solutions. The pH-dependent sorption behavior of Gd was studied in the pH range from 3 to 11 at room temperature (298 K). Equilibrium data over a range of initial Gd concentrations of 5−50 mg L−1 was analyzed with Langmuir, Freundlich and Redlich-Peterson models. Sorption kinetics was fitted with the pseudo-first-order, the pseudo-second-order and fractional power kinetic models.
Keywords: gadolinium; multi-walled carbon nanotubes; sorption.

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Published

2021-11-24