A Survey on Adsorption of Heavy Metals Including Pb(II) and Co(II)on the Montmorillonite/Copper Oxide Nanocomposites and Montmorillonite Clays

Abstract

In this survey adsorption of some heavy metals such as cobalt and lead on montmorillonite and montmorillonite/copper oxide nano-composite is reported. Adsorption percent and adsorption capacity were studied under different conditions such as pH concentration of metal ions amount of clay and interaction time. The results show that an increase in absorption percent and absorption capacity with increasing pH and contact time between adsorbent and solution. Also by increasing the initial metal ion concentration and decreasing the amount of clay the adsorption percent decreases and the adsorption capacity increases. The adsorption data is a good fit with Langmuir isotherm.