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APPLIED RADIATION AND ISOTOPES
Volume 168, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2020.109473
Keywords
Adsorption; Yttrium; Neodymium; Titanium dioxide
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- research grant in Nuclear Forensics. STCU [9906]
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The research shows that modification of the TiO2 surface with arsenate groups promotes the adsorption of yttrium ions, and the introduction of neodymium increases the difference in adsorption of yttrium and strontium ions, making Nd/4As-TiO2 potentially useful for separating Sr-90 and Y-90 in nuclear forensics.
This research evaluates the adsorption of yttrium from aqueous solutions by titanium dioxide with surface arsenate groups (4As-TiO2) and titanium dioxide with surface arsenate groups doped by neodymium (Nd/4As-TiO2). The impacts of various adsorption parameters such as contact time, pH and initial metal concentrations were investigated in batch adsorption experiments. Experimental data for yttrium ions adsorption onto Nd/4As-TiO2 fits well with the Elovich kinetic model (R-2 = 0.99) and the Lagergen kinetic model based on pseudo-first order equation (R-2 = 0.97). Yttrium ions adsorption onto 4As-TiO2 fits well with the Lagergen kinetic model based on pseudo-second order equation (R-2 = 0.999). The process of yttrium adsorption in equilibrium conditions was adequately described by Langmuir adsorption theory. The assumption is that possible mechanisms for yttrium adsorption onto investigated adsorbents is surface complexation in the form of Y(OH)(2+) or Y(OH)(2)(+) in neutral medium and surface precipitation in alkali medium. It was shown that modification of the TiO2 surface by arsenate groups promotes the adsorption of yttrium ions. The introduction of neodymium into the TiO2 structure with surface arsenate groups increases the difference in adsorption of yttrium and strontium ions, therefore Nd/4As-TiO2 can be useful to separate Sr-90 and Y-90 in nuclear forensics.
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