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Hydrothermal synthesis, structure and sorption performance to cesium and strontium ions of nanostructured magnetic zeolite composites

  • Received : 2021.09.27
  • Accepted : 2021.12.07
  • Published : 2022.06.25
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Abstract

The problem of water contamination by long-living cesium and strontium radionuclides is an urgent environmental issue. The development of facile and efficient technologies based on nanostructured adsorbents is a perspective for selective radionuclides removal. In this regard, current work aimed to obtain the nanostructured magnetic zeolite composites with high adsorption performance to cesium and strontium ions. The optimal conditions of hydrothermal synthesis were established based on XRD, SEM-EDX, N2 adsorption-desorption, VSM, and batch adsorption experiment data. The role of chemical composition, textural characteristics, and surface morphology was demonstrated. The monolayer ionexchange mechanism was proposed based on adsorption isotherm modeling. The highest Langmuir adsorption capacity of 229.6 and 105.1 mg/g towards cesium and strontium ions was reached for composite obtained at 90 ℃ hydrothermal treatment. It was shown that magnetic characteristics of zeolite composites allowing to separate spent adsorbents by a magnet from aqueous solutions.

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Acknowledgement

The authors are grateful to the staff of the Laboratory of X-ray Diffraction Analysis of the Institute of Chemistry of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ph.D. Gerasimenko A.V. and Ph.D. Shlyk D.H. for conducting X-ray phase analysis of four experimental samples (providing experimental data) and also are grateful to head of laboratory of chromatography of radioactive elements of the Frumkin Institute of Physical chemistry and Electrochemistry Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sci. Milyutin V.V. for conducting of radionuclides sorption analysis. The investigation was carried out with the financial support of the State Assignment of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation topic No. 00657-2020-0006 (Papynov E.K. acknowledges). The assessment of sorption properties was carried out with the financial support of the RFBR, project No. 19-03-00119. The measurement and analysis of the magnetic properties of the samples were carried out with the support of the Russian Science Foundation, project No. 19-72-20071. The equipment of the joint Center for collective Use, the interdisciplinary center in the field of nanotechnology and new functional materials of the FEFU and the laboratory of magnetism, and the laboratory of film technologies of the FEFU were used in the work. (Far Eastern Federal University, FEFU, Vladivostok, Russia). X-ray phase analysis of four samples was carried out on the equipment of the Far Eastern Center for Structural Research (Institute of Chemistry of the FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia).

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