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Use of industrial by-products as sorbents for the removal of lanthanides in contaminated waters

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dc.contributor Rigol Parera, Anna
dc.contributor Ramírez Guinart, Josep Oriol
dc.creator Tudela Alarcón, Sergi
dc.date 2017-10-02T10:29:19Z
dc.date 2017-10-02T10:29:19Z
dc.date 2017-06
dc.date.accessioned 2024-12-16T10:25:38Z
dc.date.available 2024-12-16T10:25:38Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2445/116089
dc.identifier.uri http://fima-docencia.ub.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/19770
dc.description Treballs Finals de Grau de Química, Facultat de Química, Universitat de Barcelona, Any: 2017, Tutors: Anna Rigol Parera, Oriol Ramírez Guinart
dc.description One of the techniques used for the remediation of contaminated water is the use of sorbents. In these techniques, the sorbents retain the contaminants from the water. One of the most common sorbents is the activated charcoal. It is an effective commercial sorbent. However, there are some greener, cheaper and equally effective alternatives that might be investigated. For this reason, this project evaluates the efficacy of some materials as sorbents for pollutants, concretely lanthanides . The materials studied include different biochars and a by-product that comes from the metallurgical industry. A previous study1 showed a high efficiency of the studied materials for the sorption of lanthanides (Sm, La, Lu) at a single concentration of 0.05 meq/L. The present study aims to keep going in that direction by doing more experiments to obtain additional information about these materials as sorbents. In this work, it has been evaluated the sorption capacity (sorption percentage and solid-liquid distribution coefficient) of the target materials and of a commercial activated charcoal, all tested at different samarium concentrations in water. This test allows us to see until which contaminant concentration is the material efficient as a sorbent. It has also been tested the desorption of Sm from these materials at the different Sm concentrations, since a good sorbent needs to have a low desorption as well as a good retention of the contaminant. Finally, some information about the existing mechanisms in the sorption process were derived form the sorption-desorption experiments. The obtained results show a very good efficacy of the materials for the sorption of Sm until arriving at high concentrations, and as well as, low desorption. Biochars are very good sorbents, as they only sature at very high concentrations that are not common in environmental situations. An exception was the biochar obtained from sugarcane bagasse, that showed worse results. The coal fines material, which is a by-product of the metallurgical industry, showed a similar behaviour to a studied commercial activated charcoal. It showed a 100% of sorption in the hole concentration range tested . This confirms that the materials studied can be an environmentally friendly, economical and equally effective alternative to the commercial activated charcoal. Keywords: Biochars,
dc.format 51 p.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.rights cc-by-nc-nd (c) Tudela, 2017
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source Treballs Finals de Grau (TFG) - Química
dc.subject Carbó vegetal
dc.subject Metalls de terres rares
dc.subject Contaminació de l'aigua
dc.subject Treballs de fi de grau
dc.subject Charcoal
dc.subject Rare earth metals
dc.subject Water pollution
dc.subject Bachelor's theses
dc.title Use of industrial by-products as sorbents for the removal of lanthanides in contaminated waters
dc.title Ús de subproductes industrials com a sorbents per a l’eliminació de lantànids en aigües contaminades
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis


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