title: Comparison of different types of biomasses for copper biosorption.
abstract: Three biomass, birch wood Betula sp., marine brown alga Fucus vesiculosus, and terrestrial moss Pleurozium schreberi, have been compared as raw materials for preparation of biosorbents for removal of copper ions from diluted water solutions. Small sample doses (0.5 g/100ml) of the biosorbents prepared from alga and moss enabled more than 90% removal of Cu(II) ions from diluted water solutions (5-20mg/l). The sample from sawdust was less effective. A pseudo-second-order rate model properly described the experimental kinetic data for the biosorbents. The maximum sorption capacities (Xm) determined from the experimental equilibrium isotherms by applying the Langmuir model showed that the alga had the best copper-binding ability (Xm=23.4 mg/g), followed by the moss (Xm=11.1mg/g), and the sawdust (Xm=4.9 mg/g). No visible damages or performance losses were detected for the alga and moss after five sorption-desorption cycles using diluted HCl as eluent.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden. grimm@ket.kth.se <grimm@ket.kth.se>
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Grimm
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zanzi
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Björnbom
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Cukierman
mesh_terms: D018533:Biomass; D044002:Bryophyta / Q000378:metabolism*; D003300:Copper / Q000378:metabolism*; D044645:Fucus / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D014934:Wood
chemical_list: D003300:Copper