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Pedosphere

Volume 19, Issue 2, April 2009, Pages 251-257
Pedosphere

A New Competitive Adsorption Isothermal Model of Heavy Metals in Soils*1

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Abstract

A new competitive adsorption isothermal model (CAIM) was developed for the coexistent and competitive binding of heavy metals to the soil surface. This model extended the earlier adsorption isothermal models by considering more than one kind of ion adsorption on the soil surface. It was compared with the Langmuir model using different conditions, and it was found that CAIM, which was suitable for competitive ion adsorption at the soil solid-liquid surface, had more advantages than the Langmuir model. The new competitive adsorption isothermal model was used to fit the data of heavy metal (Zn and Cd) competitive adsorption by a yellow soil at two temperatures. The results showed that CAIM was appropriate for the competitive adsorption of heavy metals on the soil surface at different temperatures. The fitted parameters of CAIM had explicit physical meaning. The model allowed for the calculation of the standard molar Gibbs free energy change, the standard molar enthalpy change, and the standard molar entropy change of the competitive adsorption of the heavy metals, Zn and Cd, by the yellow soil at two temperatures using the thermodynamic equilibrium constants.

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Project supported by the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University of China (No.IRT0749).

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