ADSORPTION PROPERTIES OF As, Pb AND Cd IN SOFT SOIL AND META SEDIMENTARY RESIDUAL SOIL

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Engineering Postgraduate Conference (EPC) 2008 ADSORPTION PROPERTIES OF As, Pb AND Cd IN SOFT SOIL AND META SEDIMENTARY RESIDUAL SOIL R. Rosli 1, A. T. A Karim 1, A. A. A. Latiff 1 and M. R. Taha 2 Faculty of Civil & Environmetal Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia 1 Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2 ABSTRACT Arsenic, Lead and Cadmium were commonly found at industrial sites and turn out to be toxic at high concentrations. Two types of soil commonly found in Malaysia, namely meta sedimentary residual soil () and soft soil () were studied as an adsorbent for the removal of As, Pb and Cd. The physico-chemical properties and batch adsorption tests were conducted in order to evaluate the capability of these soils. The physico-chemical properties tested in this study include particle size distribution, Atterberg limit, ph of soils, surface area and pore size determination, soil mineralogy, soil composition and cation exchange capacity. Batch adsorption tests were performed by shaking 6g of soil in 30ml of solution. The concentration were fixed at 10mg/L while the contact time varies at 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 48, 72, 96, 120, and 168 hours. The filtrates were then tested using Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (AAS) and the adsorption data have been correlated with both Freundlich and Langmuir isotherms. The results showed that the successfully adsorbed Pb and Cd while soft soil was effective in the removal of As. Both soils fitted well to Freundlich adsorption isotherm in the adsorption of As and Cd while Langmuir was best fitted in the removal of Pb. Keyword : meta sedimentary residual soil, soft soil, adsorption, physicochemical characteristics, Freundlich and Langmuir isotherm INTRODUCTION Soils can have a natural input of heavy metals from parent rock. However, the natural content of heavy metals in soils can be exceeded in some areas by human activities such as in agriculture, industry, and mining as reported by Peris, (2008). Release of large quantities of heavy metals into the natural environment has resulted in a number of environmental problems (Abbas, 2007). There are various methods to remediate heavy metals contaminated soils and wastes. However, in this case, adsorption process has been found to be effective and economically feasible for the removal of various types of dissolved metals. Advantages of adsorption include its ability to separate a wide range of chemical compounds, easily regenerate and easy operational procedures. This study was intended to search for the best natural soils to be used as an adsorbent.

Meta sedimentary residual soil and soft soil have been chosen, as the abundance and the availability of these soils make them economically feasible. The metals selected for this study were the metals that were most commonly found at sites and will be limited to Arsenic (As), Lead (Pb) and Cadmium (Cd). The aim of this preliminary adsorption study was to evaluate the effectiveness of locally available and to retain Arsenic, Lead and Cadmium. EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE The samples were subjected to various physical and chemical characteristics such as particle size distribution, Atterberg limits, ph, conductivity, surface area and pore size determination, soil mineralogy, cation exchange capacity (CEC), and soil composition. Atterberg limit tests were carried out using British Standard BS 1377 (1990) while others were determined using appropriate instruments. In addition, the adsorption tests were also conducted using the simple but effective batch adsorption method. According to Wan Zuhairi, (2001), batch tests provide a quick method of estimating the maximum contaminant retention capacity since this technique completely destroys the soil structure (soil suspension) and therefore exposing the surfaces of the soil for adsorption to occur. The meta sedimentary residual soil samples were obtained from a site located at UKM Bangi while the soft soil samples were obtained from the UTHM Soft Soil Research Centre (RECE). Soil samples were air dried and ground to pass through the 2mm sieves. Analytical methods for sample characterization : Main soil parameters The particle size distribution of and were determined using a particle size analyzer, (CILAS, model 1180, France). The ph test was conducted according to US EPA Method 9045D (2004) and Tan, (1996) method. The specific surface area and the porous structure of and were determined using surface area analyzer, ASAP 2010 (Micromeritics Instrument Corporation, USA). An X-ray diffraction test was conducted on the and sample using a Bruker Diffractometer, model D8 with a Lyn Eye detector in order to determine the mineralogical composition of the soil. The CEC testing procedures were based and modified from the methylene blue adsorption test done by Cocka, (1993). In this study, trace and major elements were determined by X-ray fluorescent method (Bruker S4 Pioneer) using the fused beads techniques. Sorption test methods This experiment was carried out in batches on untreated adsorbent ( and ). Samples were equilibrated by shaking for 168 hours on a rotary agitator at 30rpm at room temperature. The shaking time for the batch tests were 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 48, 72, 96, 120, and 168 hours. Each mixture were shake 2

separately. After shaking, the supernatant were filtered and the supernatants were then measured using the Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (AAS) (Perkin Elmer, AA Analyst). The adsorption characteristics of various soils were determined by plotting their adsorption isotherms. The percentage of the As, Pb and Cd removed from the solution after various shaking hours can be calculated using the equation below : q = (Co-Ce) x 100% (1) Co Where, q = quantity of metal adsorbed (mg/g), C o = the initial concentration (mg/l) and C e = the final concentration of metal in solution (mg/l). The experimental data were fitted to two commonly used adsorption isotherm equations namely the Freundlich and Langmuir models (Wan Zuhairi, 2001; Ahmad Tarmizi, 2005). According to Ahmad Tarmizi, (2005), the Freundlich isotherm is the earliest known relationship describing the adsorption equation and is usually expressed as : q = K f.c e 1/nf (2) where, q = adsorption density, C e = equilibrium concentration, k f = freudlinch constant (g/l) and 1/n f = adsorption intensity This equation is usually used in the linear form by taking the logarithmic of both sides as : ln q = ln K f + 1 ln C e (3) N F The constant can be determined from the slope and the intercept. The Langmuir adsorption isotherm is often preferred since it is best known of all isotherms describing adsorption (Wan Zuhairi, 2001; Ahmad Tarmizi, 2005). The Langmuir isotherm is given by the equation : q = α ß C e 1 + αc e (4) where, q = adsorption density at the equilibrium solute concentration C e = concentration of adsorbate, α = Langmuir constant and ß = maximum adsorption capacity corresponding to complete monolayer coverage The constant α and the maximum adsorption capacity ß can then be evaluated from the slope and intercept of the following linear equation. 1 = 1 1 + 1 q αß Ce ß (5) 3

% Removal Characterization of and RESULT AND DISCUION Tables 1 and 2 summarized the physical and chemical characteristics of the soil sample. Adsorption Studies Kinetic Batch Test TABLE 1: Physical properties of Residual and Soft Soil Properties Residual Soil Soft soil Atterberg Limits Liquid Limit (LL) (%) Plastic Limit (PL) (%) Plasticity Index (PI) Particle size distribution Sand (%) Silt (%) 31 22 9 3.06 82.68 14.26 TABLE 2 : Chemical properties of and 61.8 34.3 27.5 0.71 91.66 7.63 Clay ((%) Classification Clayey Silt Clayey Silt ph 3.96 2.77 Properties Residual Soil Soft soil CEC (meq/100g) 0.5 1.0 2.9 3.4 BET Surface Area (m 2 /g) 9.9464 18.6063 Pore Diameter (Å) 17.84865 139.2540 Soil mineralogy Quartz & Kaolinite Quartz, Montmorillonite, Gismondine & Kaolinite Soil Composition (%) Al 2 O 3 12.2 15.9 SiO 2 72.33 58.94 Fe 2 O 3 3.238 5.166 The kinetics of the adsorption characteristics of the soil samples were illustrated in Figure 1. The initial concentration, mass of adsorbent and volume of heavy metal solution were fixed at 10ppm, 6g and 30ml respectively. In general, the figure showed that the removal of metals in both soil were slow initially and after a certain contact hour, the percentage removal seemed to increase slightly. 100 Adsorption of As, Cd and Pb in & 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 As- Cd- Pb- As- Cd- Pb- 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 Time (hr) FIGURE 1: Kinetic batch test Metals adsorption versus time 4

Ln q Figure 1 also showed that the percentage removal of Pb seemed to be higher than As or Cd for both soil. At 0.5 hour contact time, approximately 85% and 78% of Pb were removed from and respectively. After 4 hours, the percentage removal for and were 85% and 81% respectively for both soil. It appeared that as the contact time increased, the percentage removal for both soil were steadily increased. For As, about 12% and 25% of As were removed in 0.5 minutes using and respectively. When the samples were equilibrated for 4 hours, the removal percentage of As increased to 23%.and 37% for and respectively. The percentage of As removal increased to 87% for and 76% for at 168 hours. Initially, As were removed higher from than. However, approximately at 96 hours, the percentage removal for both soils nearly the same. This showed that as the contact time increased, the percentage removal increased. Cd showed a different trend compared to Pb and As. seemed to increase as the contact time increased but for, as the contact time increased, the percentage removal started to decrease sharply. Contact time 48 hours was the maximum removal achieved for (10%) and after that, no removal was detected. Generally, all metals achieved equilibrium at 96 hours contact hour. Adsorption Isotherm The adsorption data obtained were applied to Freundlich and Langmuir isotherm models and the isotherm constants from these plots were calculated. 5.00 Linearized Freundlich adsorption isotherm for AS 4.50 4.00 y = -0.7567x + 4.2797 R 2 = 0.8815 3.50 3.00 2.50 2.00 y = -0.913x + 4.2416 R 2 = 0.8752 1.50 0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 Ln Ce FIGURE 2 (a) : The linearized Freundlich adsorption isotherm for As with initial concentration of 10mg/L and different contact time. The concentration data were plotted in a linearized form as in figure 2(a) for the evaluation of adsorption parameters. The two lines nearly crossed each other and the slope was higher than the slope. From the two lines, the Freundlich equilibrium constant, K f were 69.52 L/g (R 2 =0.88) for the and 72.22 L/g (R 2 =0.88) for the. The adsorption intensities, 1/n were -0.91and -0.76 for and respectively. Wan Afnizan, (2004) reported that the values of 1/n between 0.1 and 0.5 showed the best adsorption capacities. Other literature by him mentioned that the value of 1/n that is closer to 1 indicated higher adsorptive capacity at higher concentration but rapidly diminished at lower concentration. In this case, the samples were fixed at one concentration only therefore, the negative values of 1/n cannot be interpreted unless adsorption data at different concentrations were available. It is expected that there will be a 5

1/q Ln q 1/q changes in adsorption intensity if there were various amount of concentration values. 0.20 Linearized Langmuir adsorption isotherm for AS 0.15 0.10 0.05 y = -0.1353x + 0.112 R 2 = 0.5396 0.00 y = -0.0984x + 0.0695 R 2 = 0.6156 0.00 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.60 0.70 0.80 0.90 1.00 1/Ce FIGURE 2 (b) : The linearized Langmuir adsorption isotherm for As with initial The linearized Langmuir plot is shown in Figure 2(b). The corresponding value of the parameters α and β were -0.83L/mg and 8.93mg/g (R 2 =0.54) respectively for and -0.71L/mg and 14.39mg/g (R 2 =0.62) respectively for. The low coefficient of regressions for both soils revealed that Freundlich isotherm was more suitable to explain adsorption capacity of As in and. Linearized Freundlich adsorption isotherm for Pb y = -0.0091x + 3.8784 R 2 = 0.6095 y = 0.4108x + 3.989 R 2 = 0.7218 3.80 3.30-3.00-2.50-2.00-1.50-1.00-0.50 0.00 Ln Ce FIGURE 3 (a) : The linearized Freundlich adsorption isotherm for Pb with initial 2.80 0.023 Linearized Langmuir adsorption isotherm for Pb 0.022 0.021 y = -0.0002x + 0.0219 R 2 = 0.7901 0.020 y = -3E-05x + 0.0205 R 2 = 0.928 0.019 0.00 5.00 10.00 15.00 20.00 1/Ce FIGURE 3 (b) : The linearized Langmuir adsorption isotherm for Pb with initial For Pb, the linearized Freundlich isotherm plotted showed that the adsorption capacity K f value were 48.35L/g (R 2 =0.61) for and 54.0L/g (R 2 =0.72) for. The adsorption intensity, 1/n were -0.0091 and 0.4108 for and respectively. 6

1/q Ln q For Langmuir isotherm, the corresponding value of the parameters α and β were -683.33L/mg and 48.78mg/g (R 2 =0.93) respectively for and -109.50L/mg and 45.66mg/g (R 2 =0.80) respectively for. However, high values of the coefficient regression for both soil revealed that the isotherm data fitted well with linearized form of Langmuir isotherm model. According to Matias, (1997), since the Langmuir model demonstrated to be the best fit for the data, this suggested that the solute (Pb) was adsorbed creating one layer of the solute onto the surface of adsorbent (soil). Adsorption capacity value for and appeared approximately the same and these results were also shown in Figure 1. 4.00 Linearized Freundlich adsorption isotherm for Cd 3.50 3.00 2.50 2.00 1.50 y = -0.3895x + 3.9718 R 2 = 0.9735 1.00 0.50 y = -15.2x + 35.014 R 2 = 0.9957 0.00 0.50 0.70 0.90 1.10 1.30 1.50 1.70 1.90 2.10 2.30 2.50 Ln Ce FIGURE 3 (a) : The linearized Freundlich adsorption isotherm for Cd with initial 0.6000 0.5500 0.5000 0.4500 0.4000 0.3500 0.3000 0.2500 0.2000 0.1500 0.1000 0.0500 0.0000 Linearized Langmuir adsorption isotherm for Cd y = 12.727x - 1.1886 R 2 = 0.1903 y = -0.0282x + 0.0386 R 2 = 0.8954 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 1/Ce FIGURE 3 (b) : The linearized Langmuir adsorption isotherm for Cd with initial The linearized adsorption isotherm for Freundlich analysis is shown in Figure 3(a). The K f value of in Cd removal was 53.08L/g (R 2 =0.0.97) while for, the K f value 1.6084x10 15 L/g (R 2 =0.996). The 1/n values were -0.39 and -15.20 for and respectively. The linearized adsorption isotherm for Langmuir is shown in Figure 3(b). The empirical constant, α and the amount of adsorbate that would form a molecular layer on the solid adsorbent, β values for were -1.37L/mg and 25.91mg/g (R 2 =0.90) respectively while the α and β values were -0.09L/mg and -0.84 mg/g (R 2 =0.19) for respectively. The α value of seemed to be higher than the while the opposite was true for the β values. The coefficient regression of the adsorption of Cd on was low and this indicated that the Langmuir analysis may not be the best isotherm to fit its data. In general, it appears that the Freundlich model fitted the adsorption of As and Cd very well while Langmuir equation fitted the adsorption of Pb. On average, has the ability to adsorb Pb and Cd more than while adsorbed 7

As more than. Wan Zuhairi, (2001) stated that all of these chemical properties such as CEC, A, total pore, Al 2 O 3, MnO and Fe 2 O 3 values influence the attenuation of pollutants. Referring to Table 2, seemed to be more effective in retaining heavy metal, since chemical properties as mentioned above were relatively higher in compared to. It was unclear why the was more effective in retaining metals. The only parameter that showed was a better adsorbent was the clay composition. As indicated in tables 1 and 2, clay particle size distribution for was 2 times higher compared to. The clay mineralogy consisted of mainly kaolinite while consisted of kaolinite, montmorillonite and gismondine. Based on the results, Pb and Cd adsorption on were probably due to surface ion exchange between +ve metal ions and ve clay minerals. There might be other factors and reasons that influenced the Pb and Cd adsorption into and more research were required to explained this characteristics. TABLE 3 : Summarized adsorption isotherm adsorption constants for the and with. Freundlich Heavy Metal k 1/n r 2 k 1/n r 2 As 69.5190-0.9130 0.8752 72.2188-0.7567 0.8815 Pb 48.3468-0.0091 0.6095 54.0000 0.4108 0.7218 Cd 53.0800-0.3895 0.9735 1.6084x10 15-15.2000 0.9957 Langmuir Heavy Metal α Β r 2 α β r 2 As -0.8278 8.9286 0.5396-0.7063 14.3885 0.6156 Pb -683.33 48.7805 0.9280-109.5 45.6621 0.7961 Cd -1.3687 25.9067 0.8954-0.0934-0.8413 0.1903 CONCLUSION On the basis of this preliminary adsorption study it can be concluded that the meta sedimentary residual soil and soft soil will adsorbed As, Pb and Cd. This was fully supported by the results obtained from the physico-chemical characteristics and adsorption capacity value from both soils. was found to adsorb Pb and Cd more while soft soil was effective for the removal of As. Both soils fitted well to Freundlich adsorption isotherm in the adsorption of As and Cd while Langmuir isotherm was best fitted in the removal of Pb. 8

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