for Studying Heavy Metal Ions Sorption on the Inorganic Sorbents

The scope of this study was the removal of heavy metal ions, ammonium and organic substances by ion exchange from municipal wastewaters. Clinoptilolite, bentonite, and palygorskite are especially interesting in the group of inorganic sorbents because of their specific physico-chemical properties. Specific surface areas and pore distributions were determined for the above sorbents. Sorption kinetics of Zn(II), Cu(II), Ni(II), Pb(II) and ammonium ions in synthetic solutions and wastewaters were investigated on the above sorbents. Ion sorption process was carried out with a static method at various phase contact times. The atomic adsorption spectroscopy method was used for measurements of heavy metal contents. The adsorption process was found to be pH and concentration dependent. The removal mechanism of metal ions was by adsorption and ion exchange processes. The FT-IR photoacoustic spectroscopy method was used to study mechanism of Zn(II)