Removal of Cadmium and Lead from Aqueous Solution by Hydroxyapatite/Chitosan Hybrid Fibrous Sorbent: Kinetics and Equilibrium Studies

Park, Soyeon; Gomez-Flores, Allan; Chung, Yong Sik; Kim, Hyunjung

doi:https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/396290

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Removal of Cadmium and Lead from Aqueous Solution by Hydroxyapatite/Chitosan Hybrid Fibrous Sorbent: Kinetics and Equilibrium Studies

Soyeon Park,¹Allan Gomez-Flores,¹Yong Sik Chung,²and Hyunjung Kim¹

Academic Editor: Kaustubha Mohanty

Received22 Apr 2015

Accepted02 Jul 2015

Published27 Jul 2015

Abstract

Hydroxyapatite (HAp)/chitosan composites were prepared by a coprecipitation method, dropping a mixture of chitosan solution and phosphoric acid solution into a calcium hydroxide solution. Using the HAp/chitosan composites prepared, HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers with various HAp contents were prepared by a wet spinning method. X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy analyses revealed that HAp particles were coated onto the surface of the fiber, and the surface roughness increased with increasing the HAp contents in the fiber. In order to evaluate the heavy metal removal characteristics of the HAp/chitosan hybrid fiber, adsorption tests were conducted and the results were compared with those of bare chitosan fibers. The results showed better performance in heavy metal ion removal for the HAp/chitosan hybrid fiber than the chitosan fiber. As the HAp content in the hybrid fiber increased, the removal efficiency of heavy metal ions also increased due to the increase of the specific surface area of the HAp/chitosan hybrid fiber. Adsorption kinetic and isotherm tests revealed that Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺ adsorption to the hybrid fiber follows pseudo-second-order kinetic and Langmuir-type adsorption, respectively.

1. Introduction

Heavy metal contamination occurs in aqueous waste streams in many industries, such as metal plating facilities, mining operations, and tanneries [1–3]. Some metals associated with these activities are cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), chromium (Cr), and mercury (Hg). These heavy metals are not biodegradable; indeed, they tend to accumulate in living organisms, causing various diseases and disorders. Thus, there is a need to minimize the quantities of these heavy metals that could potentially be dangerous to human health. Removal methods for heavy metals include chemical precipitation, membrane filtration, ion exchange, carbon adsorption, and coprecipitation [3–5].

Hydroxyapatite (HAp), the major component of hard tissue, has properties that include deodorization, protein adhesiveness, bioactivity, and biocompatibility [6, 7]. HAp also has an ion-exchange property; thus it has been reported to be efficient for the removal of various heavy metal ions such as lead, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, and cadmium from aqueous solution [8–12]. However, due to the existence of HAp in the form of powder, separating the suspended HAp particles from aqueous solution after the removal of heavy metal ions is not simple [13]. Additionally, the powder-type of HAp is unlikely applicable to continuous packed-bed systems, which are commonly used in practical scale, due to high pressure drops by high packing density of powder-type of materials [14]. Both of the aforementioned drawbacks lead to the limitation of their industrial application.

As one of the methods to overcome the limitation, a recent study has attempted to utilize HAp/chitosan fibers as a bulk-type adsorbent for heavy metal ions from contaminant water [15]. The major advantages of using HAp/chitosan hybrid fibrous materials are as follows: first, chitosan itself has also been used as a heavy metal adsorbent because it has a glucosamine pyranose ring per molecule, which includes amine and hydroxyl groups that exhibit excellent reactivity [16, 17]. This indicates that if the HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers are successfully prepared, synergetic effect for heavy metals removal by both chitosan and HAp is expected. Second, fibers normally exhibit large specific surface areas, and they also have the advantage of being easy to convert to various forms, such as fabrics, knits, and nonwovens, which would overcome the limitations (e.g., the difficulty in solid/liquid separation, high pressure drop in continuous packed-bed system) of powder-type of adsorbents. However, to the best of our knowledge, no study on the heavy metal removal characteristics of HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers according to the content of HAp has yet been conducted; thus the relevant study is required to better advance our knowledge. Hence, the aim of this study was set to successfully prepare organic/inorganic (HAp/chitosan) hybrid fiber with various HAp contents as adsorbents of heavy metal ions and to systematically investigate the removal characteristics of lead (Pb²⁺) and cadmium (Cd²⁺) in terms of kinetics and equilibrium according to the amount of HAp content in the adsorbents.

2. Materials and Methods

2.1. Preparation of Chitosan and HAp/Chitosan Hybrid Fibers

The chitosan used was provided by TaeHun Bio, Co., Ltd., Republic of Korea. The degree of deacetylation was reported by the manufacturer to be ~92%, and the viscosity was 600 cp in 0.5 wt% chitosan solution. All the chemicals (e.g., acetic acid (CH₃COOH), calcium hydroxide (Ca(OH)₂), phosphoric acid (H₃PO₄), lead nitrate (Pb(NO₃)₂), and cadmium nitrate (Cd(NO₃)₂·4H₂O)) used were reagent grade. They were used without further purification.

A chitosan aqueous solution of 2% (w/w) was prepared by dissolving the chitosan powder into 60 mM acetic acid aqueous solution. Then, the chitosan/phosphoric acid mixture was gradually dropped into 100 mM calcium hydroxide suspension, agitated with a mechanical stirrer at a speed greater than 800 rpm, via a pipette at a rate of 3.2 mL/min. The agitation speed was kept high, more than 800 rpm, until the pH became . The reaction temperature was 25°C. The final slurry, the HAp/chitosan composite, was aged with stirring for 24 h. Then, the precipitate was washed with distilled water several times and freeze-dried. A HAp/chitosan (80/20 as weight ratio) composite was finally prepared [18].

After chitosan at a fixed rate was dissolved in acetic acid aqueous solution, we prepared spinning dopes, where the weight ratios of HAp/chitosan were 0/100, 10/90, 20/80, and 30/70 by adding HAp/chitosan composite (80/20 as weight ratio). The content of chitosan in the spinning dope was kept at 3% (w/w). We used the spinning dope with sodium hydroxide solidification extract of 10 wt% on a wet spinning machine where the 0.1 mm × 300 hole nozzle was equipped for doing filtration-defoaming. Finally, we obtained HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers with different contents of HAp by the wet spinning method after washing and drying.

2.2. Characterizations

Component analysis of the fiber was performed by XRD (a PW1700 X-ray diffractometer, Philips) with CuKα radiation and in 5°–60° range. For morphological analysis, the chitosan and HAp/chitosan hybrid fiber was examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM; JSM-6300, JEOL). We measured the residual concentration of heavy metal ions in the heavy metal aqueous solutions using inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES).

2.3. Adsorption of Heavy Metal Ions

Heavy metal aqueous solutions, Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺, were prepared at different concentrations (10 mg/L–1000 mg/L). Experiments were conducted by placing a given mass of fiber (0.1 g) in a 30 mL glass bottle and pouring heavy metal aqueous solution of 20 mL. The bottle was then covered with a polypropylene lid and placed in a temperature controlled water-bath shaker at 25°C for 0.5 h–4 h. The suspension pH was unadjusted (~6). Separation of the heavy metal aqueous solution and fiber was performed simply using tweezers after the adsorption reaction had occurred. The heavy metal aqueous solutions were then stored at 4°C until being analyzed.

The metal uptake (mg of metal ion/g of HAp/chitosan hybrid fiber) was determined as follows:where and are the initial and equilibrium concentrations of heavy metal ion in the aqueous phase (mg/L), respectively. V is the volume of the solution (L) and is the amount of used HAp/chitosan hybrid fiber (g).

3. Results and Discussion

3.1. Analysis of Chitosan Fiber and HAp/Chitosan Hybrid Fiber with Different HAp Contents

Figure 1 shows the XRD pattern of chitosan fiber and HAp/chitosan hybrid fiber with various contents of HAp in the chitosan matrix. The characteristic peaks of HAp did not appear in the 10/90 HAp/chitosan hybrid fiber, but it was confirmed that the (020) crystal face peak of chitosan fiber decreased markedly near 10°, and the (040) crystal face peak near 20° decreased. Additionally, the (040) crystal face peak near 20° due to chitosan decreases as the HAp content increased. However, the (002) crystal face peak near 26° due to the HAp particles included in the HAp/chitosan hybrid fiber appeared. It could be confirmed that the HAp peaks of the (300), (211), and (112) crystal face increased at 32° [19]. Thus, the XRD results suggest that the material had a crystal structure due to HAp.

In order to visually confirm the change of the surface morphology of the fibers prepared, the surface morphology of both the chitosan fiber and the HAp/chitosan hybrid fiber with various contents of HAp was examined through SEM analysis and compared. Figure 2 shows SEM photographs of chitosan fiber and HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers with different contents of HAp in the chitosan matrix. The surface of the chitosan fiber is smooth (Figures 2(a)-2(b)). However, in the HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers, the surface of the fiber is very rough (Figures 2(c)–2(h)). Particularly, as the HAp content increases in the HAp/chitosan hybrid fiber, the surface of the fiber becomes rougher due to the attached HAp particles on the surface of the fiber. The SEM results clearly support XRD results, indicating the HAp particles were well embedded in the chitosan matrix.

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3.2. Adsorption Characteristics of HAp/Chitosan Hybrid Fiber in Heavy Metal Aqueous Solutions

Initially, adsorption tests were performed in heavy metal aqueous solution to compare the removal performance for heavy metal ions (i.e., Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺) by chitosan fiber and HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers for 2 h. For these tests, HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers with different HAp contents were used. The results are presented in Table 1. The removal efficiency of Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺ was determined to be 47.0% and 22.2% for chitosan fibers while Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺ removal efficiency was greater than 94% for HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers. In addition, the removal efficiency of Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺ tended to increase with increasing HAp content in the HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers. The results indicate that the performance for heavy metal ion removal was much better for HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers than chitosan fiber and was enhanced by increasing HAp content regardless of type of heavy metal ions.

While the comparison study between the bare chitosan fiber and the hybrid fiber clearly reveals that the removal performance of the hybrid fiber is significantly better than the bare fiber even at low heavy metal concentration (i.e., 10 mg/L), the difference in heavy metal removal efficiency was minimal among the hybrid fibers. Hence, we further examined the heavy metal ion removal characteristic of the HAp/chitosan hybrid fiber with various HAp contents at higher initial concentration of heavy metal solution (e.g., 100 mg/L and 1000 mg/L) over time. Figures 3(a), 3(c), and 3(e) show the removal efficiency of Pb²⁺ in heavy metal aqueous solution by 10/90, 20/80, and 30/70 content ratio of HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers, respectively. The heavy metal ion removal efficiency increased with increasing HAp content in the fiber. Removal with heavy metal aqueous solutions of initial concentrations of 10 mg/L and 100 mg/L for Pb²⁺ was almost complete and equilibrium was reached after 1 h. At an initial concentration of 1000 mg/L for Pb²⁺, adsorption equilibrium was reached after 2 h. Figures 3(b), 3(d), and 3(f) show the removal efficiency of Cd²⁺ in aqueous solution by 10/90, 20/80, and 30/70 content ratio of HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers, respectively. At initial concentration of 10 mg/L, 100 mg/L, and 1000 mg/L for Cd²⁺, adsorption equilibrium was reached after 2 h. The removal efficiency also increased with increasing HAp content in the fiber, which was similar to the trend for Pb²⁺. The enhanced heavy metal removal by increasing HAp content in the fiber could be attributed to the increase in the specific surface area of the hybrid fiber with increasing HAp contents. Similar observations were also reported by previous studies [20, 21]. However, the time to reach adsorption equilibrium was retarded compared to Pb²⁺, indicating that Pb²⁺ removal was better with hybrid fibers than Cd²⁺. The greater affinity of Pb²⁺ than Cd²⁺ could be attributed to (i) the smaller hydrated radii of Pb²⁺ (0.401 nm) than Cd²⁺ (0.426 nm), resulting in the Pb²⁺ having more accessibility to the adsorbent’s surface and pores, (ii) the higher electronegativity of Pb²⁺ (2.33) than Cd²⁺ (1.69), leading to more strong attraction between Pb²⁺ and HAp/chitosan’s surface, and (iii) the ionic radii of Pb²⁺ (0.118 nm) being larger than Ca²⁺ (0.099 nm) while that of Cd²⁺ (0.097 nm) being smaller than Ca²⁺, causing the Cd²⁺ to have less of a chance to be incorporated into the adsorbent structure [5, 22, 23].

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3.3. Adsorption Isotherms

To better understand the heavy metal ion adsorption characteristics to the hybrid fiber, we first analyzed the adsorption isotherms that give insight into designing the adsorption system. The isotherms reflect the relationship between the mass of the solute adsorbed per unit mass of adsorbent () and the solute concentration in bulk solution at equilibrium () at a constant temperature. For this analysis, Langmuir [24] and Freundlich [25] isotherm models were employed. Langmuir adsorption isotherm assumes monolayer adsorption of solutes onto a surface of adsorbent with a finite number of identical sites and can be expressed aswhere is concentration of metal ions in bulk solution at equilibrium (mg/L), is the amount of metal ions adsorbed on unit mass of adsorbent at equilibrium (mg/g), and and represent adsorption capacity (mg/g) and adsorption energy (L/mg), respectively.

Figures 4(a) and 4(b) show the linear plots of versus for different types of adsorbents, which are used to determine the value of and . The values obtained are given in Table 2. The values indicate that Langmuir isotherm fairly well predicts the adsorption process of both heavy metal ions by the HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers with different HAp contents. In addition, regardless of the type of heavy metal ions, the highest was observed for the 30/70 HAp/chitosan hybrid fiber that has the greatest HAp content. This indicates that the heavy metal ion adsorption by hybrid fibers is enhanced as the amount of HAp increases.

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The Freundlich isotherm is known to well describe heterogeneous system for nonideal adsorption. The experimental data on Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺ adsorption were fitted to the Freundlich adsorption isotherm [25], which can be expressed aswhere and represent adsorption capacity (mg/g(mg/L)^−1/n) and the intensity of adsorption.

Figures 5(a) and 5(b) show the Freundlich plots ( versus ) for various types of hybrid fibers, and the , , and values are provided in Table 2. The values for all cases indicate that the adsorption process is not predictable by the Freundlich isotherm. Consequently, the results for the analysis of adsorption isotherms suggest that Langmuir adsorption isotherm shows a better fit with the experimental data observed in this study compared with the Freundlich isotherm. This result indicates that the surface of the hybrid fibers possesses equal energy for heavy metal ion adsorption regardless of the HAp content, suggesting that the enhanced adsorption with increasing HAp contents is likely due to the increase of specific surface area of the hybrid fiber instead of the difference in the nature of materials between HAp and chitosan.

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3.4. Adsorption Kinetics

To better understand the adsorption characteristics of Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺ by HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers, we examined the adsorption kinetics for a representative sample (i.e., 30/70 HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers) from the metal ion removal curves over time using three metal ion adsorption models (e.g., pseudo-first-order kinetic, pseudo-second-order kinetic, and intraparticle diffusion model) [26–30]. First, the kinetics of Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺ adsorption on the 30/70 HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers was analyzed using Lagergren pseudo-first-order kinetic model [31] that can be expressed aswhere and are the adsorbed amounts (mg/g) at time (h) and equilibrium, respectively, and (h⁻¹) is the first-order Lagergren adsorption rate constant. This model can be linearized asFigures 6(a) and 6(b) show the pseudo-first-order plot of versus for adsorption of Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺ by the 30/70 HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers, respectively. The nonlinearity of the plots suggests that the adsorption process does not follow the pseudo-first-order kinetic mechanism. For quantitative comparison, the values for each case were determined and are given in Table 3 along with the correlation coefficient (), which clearly indicates that the pseudo-first-order kinetic model is not suitable to describe the Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺ adsorption process.

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A pseudo-second-order model has been reported to provide a better relationship for kinetics of metal ion adsorption process [26–29]. The pseudo-second-order kinetic model is expressed aswith the second-order adsorption rate constant (g/mg/h). The model can be linearized as and were determined from linear plots of () versus curves (Figure 7). Table 4 shows the and values for the adsorption of Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺ obtained from Figures 7(a) and 7(b). The values for all the experimental conditions indicate that the pseudo-second-order model shows a better fit compared to the pseudo-first-order model. This indicates that the rate-limiting step could be chemisorption involving valency forces through the sharing or exchange of electrons between the adsorbent and adsorbate [32]. Similar trend was also observed from many previous studies [26–29].

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If intraparticle diffusion is the rate-limiting step of the heavy metal ion adsorption, diffusion-related model should be used; however, the diffusion mechanism cannot be identified by the pseudo-first- and pseudo-second-order kinetic models. Hence, the intraparticle diffusion was analyzed by the rate equation expressed as [33]where is the intercept and is the intraparticle diffusion rate constant (mg/g/h^1/2).

Figures 8(a) and 8(b) show the intraparticle diffusion plot of versus for adsorption of Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺ by the 30/70 HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers, respectively. The plots obtained by least-square fitting were observed not to have linear correlation with the experimentally observed data (see values in Table 5), indicating that the adsorption kinetics are not well predictable by the intraparticle diffusion model.

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The kinetic studies for the 30/70 HAp/chitosan hybrid fiber revealed that the adsorption kinetics of heavy metals to the hybrid fiber likely follows the pseudo-second-order kinetic model. To further confirm that this kinetic model is valid for the hybrid fibers with different HAp contents, additional analyses were performed for the 10/90 and 20/80 HAp/chitosan content ratio of hybrid fibers using the pseudo-second-order kinetic model. The results are presented in Figures 9(a)–9(d) (Pb²⁺ by the 10/90 and 20/80 HAp/chitosan hybrid fiber in Figures 9(a) and 9(c), and Cd²⁺ by the 10/90 and 20/80 HAp/chitosan hybrid fiber in Figures 9(b) and 9(d)) as well as Tables 6 and 7. The values clearly indicate that the Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺ adsorption kinetics follows the pseudo-second-order model.

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(b) Cd2+

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(d) Cd2+

4. Conclusions

Based on the present study, the following conclusions can be drawn:(i)HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers with different contents of HAp were prepared successfully by a wet spinning method.(ii)Removal performance of heavy metal ions (Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺) was improved for HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers compared to chitosan fibers.(iii)Removal performance of heavy metal ions (Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺) was strongly affected by several parameters, such as initial metal concentration, reaction time, and HAp content in the fiber. In particular, the removal capacity for the heavy metal ions increased with increasing HAp content in the HAp/chitosan hybrid fibers due to the increase of the specific surface area.(iv)Adsorption kinetic and isotherm tests showed that Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺ adsorption to the hybrid fiber follows pseudo-second-order kinetic model (i.e., chemisorption) and Langmuir-type adsorption, respectively.

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (MEST) (NRF-2011-0014627) and by Grant no. RTI104-01-04 from the Regional Technology Innovation Program of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE).

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