BARC/PUB/2014/0821

 
 

Poly-hydroxamic acid (PHA) matrix for gadolinium pre-concentration and removal

 
     
 
Author(s)

Singha, M.; Pal, S.; Hareendran, K. N.; Roy, S. B.
(UED;DD)

Source

Journal of Radioanalytical & Nuclear Chemistry, 2014. Vol. 302 (2): pp. 961-966

ABSTRACT

A novel hydrophilic, three dimensionally crosslinked, aliphatic backbones with pendant hydroxamic acid (HA) group as functional moiety has been synthesized and utilized targeting removal of gadolinium [Gd(III)] from laboratory waste aqueous effluent. To understand the nature of sorption, gadolinium solution of various concentrations viz., 20, 10, 5.0, 1.0, 0.5 and 0.1 ppm has been contacted with a dose rate of 1 g/100 mL for 2 h. In this study, ICP-AES has been used for determination of concentration (ppm) of gadolinium in feed, filtrate and elute. EDXRF study also ensures the presence of gadolinium in the respective medium. Loaded gadolinium matrix was eluted with 1 N HCl for determining the elution factor (0.98).

 
 
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