Chemistry, Physics and Technology of Surface

ISSN 2518-1238 (Online), ISSN 2079-1704 (Print)

Aromatic organic acids are among the common environmental pollutants that enter the water with washouts from agricultural lands, wastewater from chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Taking into account the high toxicity of aromatic substances, the important task of water purification is the removal of their trace amounts. This problem can be solved by using chemically modified inorganic materials, such as silicas, which have high mechanical, chemical, hydrolytic, and radiation stability. Therefore, they do not lose their sorption capacity during long-term use and do not pollute water with sorbent degradation products.

The purpose of this work is the synthesis of a sorption-active material for removal of toxic aromatic acids by chemical immobilization of β-cyclodextrin functional groups on an aerosilogel (highly dispersed type of amorphous silica).

A β-cyclodextrin-containing aerosilogel was synthesized by two-stage liquid-phase chemical modification of hydroxylated silica surface. Using the methods of IR spectroscopy, spectrophotometry, thermogravimetry, pH metry, low-temperature adsorption-desorption of nitrogen, chemical and elemental analysis of the surface, the surface structure and its quantitative chemical composition, and also parameters of porous structure of initial and chemically modified aerosilogels were determined.

Sorption of benzoic, salicylic and β-resorcylic acids on aerosilogels from aqueous buffer solutions with pH=1 was studied. The insignificant contribution of silanol and aminopropyl groups and complete participation of chemically fixed β-cyclodextrin in the sorption of aromatic acids were proved. The results obtained are analyzed using kinetic models for pseudo-first and pseudo-second order processes, as well as Langmuir and Freundlich models for equilibrium adsorption on homogeneous and heterogeneous surfaces. It has been found that the sorption kinetic processes are well described by a pseudo-first order equation (in the presence of one type of functional groups on the surface) and a pseudo-second order equation for bi- and trifunctional aerosilogels. Experimental results on the equilibrium sorption of aromatic acids on β-cyclodextrin-containing aerosilogel are in good agreement with the Langmuir adsorption equation. This is evidence of decisive contribution of grafted oligosaccharide groups to the sorption of organic acids.

The proposed chemical approach to increasing the sorption activity of aerosilogel can be used to obtain specific chromatographic carriers, as well as inorganic sorbents for the effective removal of small amounts of highly toxic organic substances from water and aqueous solutions.

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