in this research, chitosan was used for the removal of cr (vi) ions from aqueous solution. the effect of parameters like solution ph, initial cr (vi) concentration, agitation time, amount of adsorbent and agitation speed on the adsorption process was studied. the experimental equilibrium data were analyzed by using various models such as langmuir and freundlich. freundlich isotherm model fitted...

water samples were collected from five selected mangrove ecosystems along kerala coast, north of cochin, on seasonal basis and analysed for various hydrographic parameters. to explain spatiotemporalvariations and the processes controlling their distribution, anova (two factor without replication),correlation and principal component analysis were carried out. concentration of total nitrogen vari...

the solvent extraction of rare earth metal ions from nitrate solutions by 5.11.17.23-tetra-tert-butyl-25,27-bis(diethylcarbamoylmethoxy)-26,28-dihydroxycalix[4]arene (l) in 1,2-dichloroethane has been investigated. the alalysis of the extraction equilibrium obtained from a mixture of la3+, eu3+, er3+ and y3+ revealed that the extracted species have a 1:1 metal/ligand ratio. the intra-group sepa...

co-precipitation procedure was applied in order to obtain different kinds of magnetic nanoadsobents for the removal of pb(ii) and cu(ii) toxic metal ions from wastewater samples. prepared nanoadsorbents were characterized by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ft-ir), x-ray diffractometer (xrd), scanning electron microscopy (sem) and thermogravimetric analysis (tga). the average sizes of t...

salinity is one of major stresses which can severely limit plant production, especially in the arid and semi-arid regions. the present study was carried out to evaluate the impact of salinity stress on some physio-biochemical parameters in nitre bush plants (nitraria schoberi). thus, an experiment was carried out under natural conditions and salinity stress was induced by a combination of diffe...

oxime extractants 3-tert-butyl-2-hydroxy-5-methyl benzaldehyde oxime (hl1) and 3-tert-butyl-2-hydroxy-5-methoxy benzaldehyde oxime (hl2) were synthesized and characterized by conventional spectroscopic methods. suitable lipophilic nature of the prepared extractants allowed examining the ability of these molecules for extraction-separation of copper from its mixture with normally associated meta...

this study investigated the feasibility of using different extracting solutions at various concentrations to remove copper from low permeability silty loam soils, which have a high buffering soil, ph of 7.6, where it spiked with copper at concentration of about 1500 mg/kg to represent soil conditions. the most efficient extracting solutions could be used as purging/extracting solutions in other...

in present study, molecular dynamics simulation of cadmium (ii), lead (ii) and copper (ii) removal from aqueous electrolyte solutions using the ion-exchange process with the zeolite particles was done. the results showed that, most of the particles had the highest affinity of ion exchanging with lead (ii) and the lowest affinity with copper (ii). the calculated mean ion-exchange ratios showed t...

the poly(ethyleneimine)-functionalized silica has been developed successfully as an effective adsorbent for the adsorption removal of cu(ii) ions from electroplating wastewater. the influences of ph, contact time and initial concentration of cu(ii) ions on the adsorption capacity and the effect of adsorbent dosage on the removal efficiency of cu(ii) ions from electroplating wastewater were inve...