Cosorption of organic chemicals with different properties: Their shared and different sorption sites

Zhang, Di; Pan, Bo; Wu, Min; Zhang, Huang; Peng, Hongbo; Ning, Ping; Xing, Baoshan

Cosorption of organic chemicals with different properties: Their shared and different sorption sites

2012

Complementary sorption of different chemicals was expected and investigating the relationship between the sorption inhibition of primary sorbate (ΔQᵖʳⁱ) and sorption of secondary sorbate (Qˢᵉᶜ) could provide a new angle to understand coadsorption of different chemicals. This study used bisphenol A (BPA) as the primary adsorbate, sulfamethoxazole (SMX) as the competitor, and carbon nanotubes as model adsorbents to study their complementary and competitive adsorption. At low BPA concentrations, the sorption of SMX (Qˢᵉᶜ) exceeded BPA sorption inhibition (ΔQᵖʳⁱ), indicating that these two chemicals complementarily adsorbed on their respectively preferred sorption sites. At high BPA concentrations, higher ΔQᵖʳⁱ was observed in comparison to Qˢᵉᶜ, which may be resulted from different packing efficiencies of the adsorbed SMX and BPA. This study emphasized that both competitive and complementary sorption should be discussed in binary sorption system.

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