Abstract:
At present, there are numerous materials used for uranium adsorption, in order to obtain adsorption materials with high uranium adsorption performance, excellent regeneration performance, inexpensive production costs and simple preparation methods, the polyacrylonitrile solution was modified with hydroxylamine hydrochloride using dimethyl sulfoxide as a solvent to obtain the amidoxime polyacrylonitrile solution. Then, the polyacrylonitrile solution was mixed with the amidoxime polyacrylonitrile solution in a certain proportion, and the polyacrylonitrile- poly(amidoxime) (PAN-PAO) composite fibers were obtained by wet spinning technology. Finally, it was treated with hot alkali before adsorption. The changes in the chemical structure and surface morphology of the fibers before and after adsorption and desorption were analyzed using various characterization methods such as Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The effects of various factors such as pH, adsorption time, temperature, initial uranium concentration and competing ions on the adsorption behavior of U(Ⅵ) were investigated and the process was fitted using kinetics and thermodynamics models. At the same time, different eluents such as acid, alkali, salt and mixture were selected to investigate the recycling and regeneration ability of the fibers. The results show that under the conditions of 25 ℃, pH=6.0 and
m/
V=0.2 g/L, the adsorption reaches equilibrium for 1 200 min. The actual and theoretical maximum adsorption capacities are 480.3 mg/g and 638.0 mg/g, respectively. The pseudo-second-order kinetics, intra-particle diffusion, liquid film diffusion and Langmuir models can well explain the adsorption process, which is a spontaneous chemical adsorption process controlled by entropy increase. With 0.5 mol/L of NaHCO
3 and 0.25 mol/L of Na
2CO
3+0.025 mol/L of H
2O
2 as eluents, the desorption equilibrium time is 60 min. At the same time, after 6 adsorption-desorption cycles on the fibers, the adsorption capacity remains above 85% of the initial value, while the desorption rate can still be maintained above 90%. In addition, the eluent volume can be reduced to 40% of the solution volume during adsorption while maintaining the desorption effect. The fibers exhibit excellent uranium adsorption and recycling abilities, making it a promising and efficient engineered adsorption material for the treatment of waste liquids containing uranium. At the same time, the uranium to vanadium adsorption distribution coefficient ratio of the fibers can reach 4.4, and the adsorption rate of uranium in spiked seawater exceeds 90%, indicating high selectivity for uranium and potential application in uranium extraction from seawater.