Study on the adsorption of Zn (II) by lignin hydrogels.

The polymer of sodium lignosulfonate and acrylic acid was prepared by grafting copolymerization, and lignin hydrogel was obtained by the polymer intercalated with montmorillonite, and the adsorption performance of Zn (II) by lignin hydrogel was investigated. The results showed that the prepared hydrogels have good adsorbability of Zn (II) and pH response. The adsorption capacity reached 285.39 mg/g, under the initial solution concentration of 600 mg/L, pH =4.5, adsorption temperature of 45 °C and adsorption time of 140 min, respectively. Modeling of adsorption kinetics indicated good agreement of experimental data with the quasi-second-order kinetic model. Langmuir equilibrium isotherm fitted the experimental data reasonable well, the adsorption is monolayer adsorption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]