• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.555-571
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• 2016

Heavy metal contamination has attracted considerable attention during recent decades due to the potential risk brought about for human beings and the environment. Several adsorbent materials are utilized for the purification of contaminated water resources among which chitosan is considered as an appropriate alternative. Copper is a heavy metal contaminants found in several industrial wastewaters and its adsorption on porous and macroporous chitosan membranes is investigated in this study. Membranes are prepared by phase inversion and particulate leaching method and their morphology is characterized using SEM analysis. Batch adsorption experiments are performed and it is found that copper adsorption on macroporous chitosan membrane is higher than porous membrane. The iso-steric heat of adsorption was determined by analyzing the variations of temperature to investigate its effect on adsorption characteristics of macroporous chitosan membranes. Furthermore, desorption experiments were studied using NaCl and EDTA as eluants. The mechanism of copper adsorption was also investigated using XPS spectroscopy which confirms simultaneous occurrence of chelation and electrostatic adsorption mechanisms.

• Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.59-62
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• 2004

Affinity membranes have emerged principally to overcome the problems of limited specificity experienced with membranes that operate purely on a sieving mechanism and as an alternative to the traditional affinity resins. It is a logical expectation that affinity membranes might combine the outstanding selectivity of affinity resins with the high productivity associated with filtration membranes.(omitted)