Recovery of Heavy-Metal-Anion Utilizing N,N-Dimethylaminopropylacrylamide/Acrylamide Gels

Abstract

In the present study, in order to examine the N,N-dimethylaminopropylacrylamide/acrylamide {DMAPAA/AAm} hydrogels' capabilities of repetitive heavy-metal-anion recovery from waste fluid, the authors performed successive Cr(VI) adsorption and the adsorbed-Cr(VI) desorption experiments. It has been proved that the DMAPAA/AAm gels show both of the high Cr(VI)-capturing functionality and Cr(VI)-desorption efficiencies. The results in the present study have demonstrated a possibility of a heavy-metal-anion recycling system in which the hydrogels are reused a number of times.