Author Affiliations
1School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China2School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, Chinashow less
. TG-DSC curve of Mg-Al-Ce-HT precursor
. XRD patterns of Mg-Al-Ce precursor (a), Mg-Al-Ce-HT before adsorption (b), and Mg-Al-Ce-HT after adsorption(c)
. FT-IR spectra of Mg-Al-Ce-HT precursor (a); Mg-Al-Ce-HT materials (b) and adsorbed materials (c)
. SEM images of Mg-Al-Ce-HT (a) and EDS analysis of Mg-Al-Ce-HT (b) and the corresponding EDS mappings of O (c), Mg (d), Ce (e), and Al (f) elements
. Schematic of the B(OH)3 adsorption process on the surface of Mg-Al-Ce-HT material(a), and XPS patterns of full elemental spectrogram (b)
. XPS spectra of Mg 2p, Al 2p, Ce 3d, C 1s, and O 1s in Mg-Al-Ce-HT before and after adsorption
. Effect of initial pH on adsorption efficiency (a) and the relationship between the conversion of H3BO3 and B(OH)4- (b)
. Effect of adsorbents, adsorption percentages, and adsorption capacity
. Effect of initial concentration of boric acid (a) and the Langmuir model (b)
. Effect of contact time on boron adsorption and kinetics model
. Van’s Hoff plot of boron adsorption on Mg-Al-Ce-HT
T/K | ΔGθ/ (kJ· mol-1) | ΔHθ/ (kJ·mol-1) | ΔSθ/ (kJ· mol-1·K-1) | R2 |
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308 | 12.16 | 89.90 | 0.25 | 0.99 | 313 | 10.90 | 323 | 8.37 |
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Table 1. Thermodynamic parameters for boron adsorption on Mg-Al-Ce-HT