Waste paper pulp, as a cheap material, is porous and has hydroxyl groups derived from lignin and cellulose as their constituents. Cationic 2-(dimethylamino) ethyl methacrylate (DM) was graft copolymerized onto a waste paper pulp sample in order to synthesize effective waste water treatment agents for heavy metals and dye wastes. The grafting reaction and the removability were examined.
The following results were obtained.
1) Grafting of DM onto the waste paper pulp pretreated with peracetic acid readily proceeded in the presence of Fe
2+, Cu
_??_, and Ti
3+ as redox initiators, and the degree of grafting and the grafting efficiency were remarkably high in comparison with the grafting in the absence of the metal ions.
2) The order of improving the degree of grafting and the grafting efficiency was Ti
3+>Cu
_??_>Fe
2+, and the maxima of them were observed at optimum mole ratios of [metal salt]/[PO], [Fe(NH
4)
2(SO
4)
2]/[PO]=5, [CuCl]/[PO]=10, [TiCl
3]/[PO]=50.
3) The amounts of Cr
6+ and Cu
2+ adsorbed on the DM graft copolymers, 2.1 mmol/g (grafting: 80%) and 0.4mmol/g (grafting: 20%), respectively, were larger than those on untreated waste paper pulp. Especially, the adsorption of Cr
6+ on the graft copolymers was superior to that on a commerical polymer adsorbent under the same experimental conditions.
4) Untreated waste paper pulp removed some anionic dyes, e. g., an acid dye (67%) and a sulfur dye (8%) from the aqueous solutions. However, by graft 1-20% DM onto the waste paper pulp, the copolymers removed 93-100% of the dyes, in higher efficiency than active carbon and the commercial polymer adsorbent.
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