The activity of the aluminum hydroxide-montmorillonite complex as an adsorbent, Al
2.09 (OH)
5.68Cl
0.44+0.23·nH
2O/unit formula weight of montmorillonite, to organic substances has been investigated by dye adsorption from aqueous solution. The relations between the soluble components of the complex and the mechanisms of anionic and of basic dye adsorptions have been discussed.
When the complex is suspended in water, aluminum and chlorine ions dissolve in the ratio of 1: 3 (AlCl
3). The aluminum ion in solution changes by hydrolytic polymerization into polynuclear hydroxy-aluminum ion, resulting in the formation of H
+ ions. Most of dye anions are probably adsorbed by electrostatic attraction onto Al-OH
+2 sites of the complex formed by protonation. The rest of the dye anions is bonded with the polymeric hydroxy-aluminum ion. Another important function of H
+ ions is that the H
+ ions give a favorable circumstance for adsorption of anionic dye since the solubility of dye anion is lowered. The adsorption of anionic dye is of Langmuir type and its amount of saturated adsorption is measured to be about 3×10
-4eq/g of charge which is nearly equivalent to the dissolved aluminum ion from the complex.
The adsorption of basic dye is a competitive cation-exchange reaction with the aluminum ion or H
+ ion at the negatively charged surface of the complex. Therefore the adsorbed amount of basic dye increases in case that some parts of these cations drain out from the adsorption system as a column bed type apparatus is employed. A part of dye cations penetrates into the interlayer of the complex to be strongly adsorbed and the rest exchanges the H
+ ions to be weakly adsorbed on the surface. The adsorption of basic dye is slow and of Freundlich type. The adsorbed amount of basic dye in isothermal adsorption is more temperature-dependent than that of anionic dye adsorption. This is mainly attributed to the strongly aggregated structure of the adsorbent particles which may be peptized at elevated temperatures.
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