Competitive Adsorption of Chloroform and Iron Ion onto Activated Carbon Fiber.
Chloroform in tap water has been a significant problem because it may be a carcinogenic substituent. Iron ion exists in tap water because of dissolution from iron water pipes. Iron ions in tap water cause discoloration and a bad odor. The isotherms of chloroform and iron ion adsorption onto activated carbon fibers in a single solution (chloroform or iron ion) and in a binary mixture solution (chloroform and iron ion) were investigated to estimate the competitiveness between chloroform and iron ions. The amount of adsorbed iron ions increased with increasing pore volume of the activated carbon fibers, while that of chloroform decreased. The amount of chloroform adsorbed onto the activated carbon fibers in the binary mixture solution was greater than that in the single solution. These results indicate that the adsorption of chloroform and iron ion onto activated carbon fibers could be competitive. Copyright 1999 Academic Press.
Uchida
M
Wakayama Prefectural Institute of Technology, Ogura 60, Wakayama, 649-6261, Japan
Ito
S
Kawasaki
N
Nakamura
T
Tanada
S