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Volume 3, Issue 2 (Suppl)
Trends in Green chem
ISSN: 2471-9889
Environmental & Green Chemistry 2017
July 24-26, 2017
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Novel macroporous cryogels with enhanced adsorption capability for the removal of Cu(II) ions from
aqueous phase: Modeling, kinetics and recovery studies
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ovel macroporous cryogels based on jeffamine with variousmolecular weights were prepared via freeze-dryingmethod and
then functionalized by successful reductive amination to yield reduced cryogels. The reduced cryogels were characterized
by FT-IR and SEM and then used as adsorbents for removal of Cu(II) ions from aqueous solution. Preliminary adsorption test
revealed that reduced cryogels showed 5 times higher adsorption capacity than non-reduced cryogels. Maximum adsorption
capacities for Cu(II) ion removal were determined as 55.00, 46.73, 34.10 mg/g depending on the molecular weight of jeffamine
used, at pH 5.5, temperature 55ºC, dosage 80 mg and initial concentration of 100 ppm. Adsorption capacity of the reduced
cryogels increases with increasing the initial concentration, pH, contact time and temperature but decreased with increasing
adsorbent dosage. ΔHº values were calculated from the temperature dependence data and the obtained positive values
indicated that the adsorption process was endothermic in nature. Performed recovery tests for the different cryogels resulted
in a good response within the range of 56–70% recovery. The experimental adsorption data well fitted to Freundlich isotherm
and pseudo-second-order kinetic model. The intra-particle diffusion and Boyd model confirmed that the adsorption process
occurred via particle diffusion.
Biography
Ufuk Yildiz studied Chemistry at the Karadeniz Technical University and has done his PhD in 1998 supervised by Professor Baki Hazer. He joined at the Kocaeli University
as an Assistant Professor in 1998. After his Post-doctoral work on miniemulsion and emulsion polymerization with Professor Markus Antonietti, Dr. Katharina Landfester
and Dr. Klaus Tauer at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Golm, Germany) he returned to Turkey and was promoted to an Associate Professor in the year
2004. He was a Visiting Scientist at the University of Liverpool, Department of Chemistry within the Centre for Materials Discovery working with Professor Andy Cooper
and Dr. Jon Weaver (2008). He became a Full Professor in 2009. His research interests include macroinitiators, polymeric phthalocyanines, heavy metal ion adsorption,
hydrogels and heterophase polymerization.
uyildiz@kocaeli.edu.trUfuk Yildiz
Kocaeli University, Turkey
Ufuk Yildiz, Trends in Green chem, 3:2
DOI: 10.21767/2471-9889-C1-001