Relationship between breakthrough curve and adsorption isotherm of Ca(II) imprinted chitosan microspheres for metal adsorption

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• 作者：Yangcheng Lu¹ ; ^{luyc@tsinghua.edu.cn" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Jing He¹ ; Longwen Wu² ; Guangsheng Luo¹
• 关键词：Correlation ; Breakthrough curve ; Adsorption isotherms ; Metal adsorption ; Ca(II)-imprinted chitosan microsphere
• 刊名：Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：24
• 期：2
• 页码：323-329
• 全文大小：552 K

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In this work, an equilibrium-dispersion model was successfully established to describe the breakthrough performance of Ca(II) imprinted chitosan (Ca(II)-CS) microspheres packed column for metal adsorption, and the assumptions of Langmuir isotherms and axial dispersion controlled mass transfer process were confirmed. The axial dispersion coefficient in Ca(II)-CS microspheres packed column was found to be almost proportional to the linear velocity and fit for prediction through single breakthrough test. Sensitivity analysis for breakthrough curve indicated the axial dispersion coefficient as well as Langmuir coefficient was sensitive variable for deep removal requirement. The retrieval of the adsorption isotherms of Ca(II)-CS microspheres from breakthrough curve was fulfilled by modelling calibration. A strategy based on the correlation between adsorption isotherms and breakthrough performance was further proposed to simplify the column adsorption design using absorbents with small/uniform size and fast adsorption kinetics like Ca(II)-CS microspheres to cut down the gap between lab and industry.