| dc.contributor.author | Prodromou, Melpomeni | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Pashalidis, Ioannis | en |
| dc.creator | Prodromou, Melpomeni | en |
| dc.creator | Pashalidis, Ioannis | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-21T06:22:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-11-21T06:22:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://gnosis.library.ucy.ac.cy/handle/7/56058 | |
| dc.source.uri | https://nls.ldls.org.uk/welcome.html?ark:/81055/vdc_100031755716.0x000005 | |
| dc.subject | Water | en |
| dc.subject | Purification | en |
| dc.subject | Saline water conversion | en |
| dc.title | Europium adsorption by non-treated and chemically modified opuntia ficus indica cactus fibres in aqueous solutions[ONLINE] | en |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
| dc.author.faculty | 002 Σχολή Θετικών και Εφαρμοσμένων Επιστημών / Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences | |
| dc.author.department | Τμήμα Χημείας / Department of Chemistry | |
| dc.type.uhtype | Article | en |
| dc.description.notes | <p>ID: 1111 | en |
| dc.description.notes | In: Desalination and water treatment, Vol. 57, no. 11 (Mar. 2016), p.5079-5088. | en |
| dc.description.notes | Summary: AbstractThe sorption efficiency ofOpuntia ficus indicacactus fibres regarding the removal of trivalent europium (Eu(III)) from aqueous solutions has been investigated prior and after the chemical treatment (phosphorylation and MnO2-coating) of the biomass. The removal efficiency has been studied as a function of pH, europium concentration, mass of the adsorbent, ionic strength, temperature and contact time. Evaluation of the experimental data shows that biosorption is strongly pH-depended and that the MnO2-coated product presents the highest sorption capacity followed by the non-treated and phosphorylated material. Results have been analysed by Langmuir, Freundlich and Dubinin–Radushkevich isotherms, and the Langmuir model is more suitable to describe the process. The sorption reactions are entropy-driven, and the kinetics follows a pseudo-first order rate expression, described by Lagergren. In addition, the results show that the fibres of theOpuntia ficus indicacactus possess significantly higher sorption capacity than other biomass by-products reported in literature and that the removal of europium from contaminated waters is expected to be more effective in the case of the chemically treated biomasses.</p> | en |
| dc.contributor.orcid | Pashalidis, Ioannis [0000-0002-7587-6395] | |
| dc.gnosis.orcid | 0000-0002-7587-6395 | |
