Composite hydrogel material for adsorbing heavy metals and preparation method thereof
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the field of functional materials, and particularly relates to a composite hydrogel material for adsorbing heavy metals in a water body and a preparation method thereof.
Background
Heavy metal means a density of greater than 4.5g/cm3The metal and heavy metal pollution is the pollution of waste water discharged by industries such as metallurgy, electroplating, tanning and the like to water and farmland soil environment. Heavy metals cannot be degraded by microorganisms and are easily absorbed by organisms and then enriched in higher organisms to generate cumulative poisoning. For example, heavy metal mercury can directly sink into the liver after entering a human body, and damage the brain vision nerves; heavy metal lead has high toxicity and causes damage to fetal nerve plates, resulting in brain death, senile dementia and other diseases; heavy metal chromium can cause numbness and mental disorder of limbs.
Although various treatment methods such as a conventional chemical precipitation method, a chelating flocculation method, a ferrite method, an ion exchange method, an evaporation concentration method, an adsorption method, a membrane separation method, an electrochemical method, and the like have been developed, the adsorption method has better practicability and wider application prospects because of wide application range, simple treatment process, wide raw material sources, lower cost, and better treatment effect compared with other treatment methods.
The research of the existing adsorbents mainly comprises activated carbon, agricultural wastes, resin, bentonite, fly ash, seaweed and the like, for example, application number 201710159372.2, namely organic-inorganic composite hydrogel for removing heavy metals in water, discloses that clay is firstly purified and activated and then compounded with organic matters to obtain composite hydrogel, and the method needs to treat the clay for multiple times, has complicated steps and consumes long time.
Application No. 201610851701.5 entitled "a method for preparing carboxymethyl chitosan/graphene oxide/polyacrylamide composite hydrogel" discloses that carboxymethyl chitosan is mixed with graphene oxide and propylamine enamide to react to obtain composite hydrogel, but the purpose of preparing the hydrogel is to make the hydrogel have good biocompatibility and mechanical properties, and the hydrogel can be used as materials of artificial skin, ligament and the like, and the document shows that the graphene oxide has the function of improving biocompatibility, and the carboxymethyl chitosan provides rigidity, so the hydrogel material does not show any adsorption effect on heavy metals from the functions and effects of the components of the application document.
Application No. 201610828084.7 preparation method of chitosan/palygorskite/polyacrylamide composite hydrogel discloses a method for preparing chitosan/palygorskite/polyacrylamide composite hydrogel by using chitosan, palygorskite and acrylamide as raw materials without adding initiator and N2Under the protection condition, the obtained composite hydrogel has obvious difference of adsorption amounts of different heavy metal ions, and the maximum saturated adsorption amount is less than 160 mg/g.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention provides a composite hydrogel material which is short in preparation time and has high adsorption rate to various heavy metals and a preparation method thereof.
In order to achieve the object of the present invention, through a lot of experimental studies and diligent efforts, the following technical solutions are finally obtained: a preparation method of a composite hydrogel material for adsorbing heavy metals comprises the following steps: respectively adding titanium tetrachloride and manganese chloride into acetic acid solution of chitosan, introducing nitrogen, heating in a water bath to 55-70 ℃, adding an initiator, uniformly stirring, quickly adding acrylamide, reacting at 60-65 ℃ for 1.5-3h, dehydrating, filtering and drying a product to obtain a composite hydrogel material;
wherein the mass ratio of the titanium tetrachloride to the manganese chloride to the chitosan is (3-10): (0.2-0.8): 180, chitosan: the mass ratio of the acrylamide is 1 (65-90).
Further preferably, the preparation method of the composite hydrogel material for adsorbing heavy metals provided by the invention is characterized in that the mass ratio of the titanium tetrachloride to the manganese chloride to the chitosan is (5-7): (0.4-0.7): 180, chitosan: the mass ratio of acrylamide is 1: (73-82).
Further preferably, in the preparation method of the composite hydrogel material for adsorbing heavy metals, the amount of the initiator is 10-14% of the mass of the chitosan.
Further preferably, in the preparation method of the composite hydrogel material for adsorbing heavy metals provided by the invention, the initiator is potassium persulfate, ammonia persulfate or sodium persulfate, and the concentration of the initiator is 0.008-0.045 g/mL.
Further preferably, the preparation method of the composite hydrogel material for adsorbing heavy metals provided by the invention is characterized in that the mass concentration of the acetic acid solution of chitosan is 12-25 g/L.
Further preferably, the preparation method of the composite hydrogel material for adsorbing heavy metals provided by the invention is implemented, wherein the concentration of the acetic acid solution is 1-3%.
Further preferably, in the preparation method of the composite hydrogel material for adsorbing heavy metals provided by the invention, the viscosity average molecular weight of the chitosan is 250000-400000.
The dehydration and filtration of the product in the invention are all conventional technical means in the field, wherein the dehydration and filtration are generally carried out by absolute ethyl alcohol, the drying is generally carried out by an oven, and the drying temperature is 60-70 ℃.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following technical effects:
according to the invention, through a large number of experimental researches and screens, inorganic-organic composite hydrogel doped with inorganic matters is creatively obtained, compared with a single material, the gel adsorption capacity is improved, the gel has good adsorption performance on lead, chromium and nickel, the adsorption capacity reaches 458.7mg/g, 318.2mg/g and 238.2mg/g respectively, and the gel still has excellent heavy metal adsorption capacity after being treated by a desorption agent and can be recycled; the invention has simple process and short preparation time, and is suitable for large-scale production.
Detailed Description
The following further describes the embodiments of the present invention.
Example 1
Adding 0.3g of titanium tetrachloride and 0.03g of manganese chloride into 1.2L of an acetic acid solution of 15g/L of chitosan respectively (the viscosity average molecular weight of the chitosan is about 258000), wherein the concentration of the acetic acid solution is 1.5%, introducing nitrogen for 30min immediately after adding, heating the mixture in a water bath to 60 ℃, adding 90mL of potassium persulfate with the concentration of 0.02g/mL, stirring the mixture until the mixture is uniform, quickly adding 1180g of acrylamide, reacting in the water bath at 60 ℃ for 1.5h, adding absolute ethyl alcohol into the obtained product for dehydration and filtration, and drying the gel at 60 ℃ for 2h to obtain the composite hydrogel material.
Example 2
Adding 1g of titanium tetrachloride and 0.08g of manganese chloride into 0.9L of 20g/L acetic acid solution of chitosan (the viscosity average molecular weight of the chitosan is about 375000), wherein the concentration of the acetic acid solution is 3%, introducing nitrogen for 30min immediately after adding, heating in a water bath to 70 ℃, adding 63mL of ammonium persulfate solution with the concentration of 0.04g/mL, stirring the solution uniformly, quickly adding 1600g of acrylamide, reacting at 65 ℃ in the water bath for 1.5h, adding absolute ethyl alcohol into the obtained product for dehydration and filtration treatment, and drying the gel at 60 ℃ for 2h to obtain the composite hydrogel material.
Example 3
Adding 0.55g of titanium tetrachloride and 0.04g of manganese chloride into 0.9L of 20g/L chitosan acetic acid solution (the viscosity average molecular weight of chitosan is about 350000), wherein the concentration of the acetic acid solution is 3%, introducing nitrogen for 30min immediately after adding, heating in a water bath to 65 ℃, adding 73mL of ammonium persulfate solution with the concentration of 0.03g/mL, stirring the solution to be uniform, quickly adding 1350g of acrylamide, reacting for 1.5h at the temperature of 65 ℃ in the water bath, adding absolute ethyl alcohol into the obtained product for dehydration and filtration treatment, and drying the gel for 2h at the temperature of 60 ℃ to obtain the composite hydrogel material.
Example 4
Respectively adding 0.7g of titanium tetrachloride and 0.07g of manganese chloride into 1L of 18/L acetic acid solution of chitosan (the viscosity average molecular weight of the chitosan is about 320000), wherein the concentration of the acetic acid solution is 2%, immediately introducing nitrogen for 30min after adding, then heating in a water bath to 65 ℃, adding 80mL of ammonium persulfate solution with the concentration of 0.03g/mL, stirring the solution to be uniform, quickly adding 1450g of acrylamide, reacting in the water bath at 65 ℃ for 1.5h, adding absolute ethyl alcohol into the obtained product for dehydration and filtration treatment, and drying the gel at 60 ℃ for 2h to obtain the composite hydrogel material.
Example 5
Other conditions were the same as in example 1 except that the amounts of titanium tetrachloride added were changed to 0.2g, manganese chloride 0.01g and acrylamide 900g, to prepare a composite hydrogel material.
Example 6
Other conditions were the same as in example 1 except that the amounts of titanium tetrachloride added were changed to 1.2g, manganese chloride added to 1.0g and acrylamide added to 1800g, to prepare a composite hydrogel material.
Example 7
Effect experiment of adsorbing heavy metal ions:
1. treatment of ions containing divalent lead
20mg of the composite hydrogel obtained in examples 1 to 6 was taken to treat 25ml of a target treatment solution containing divalent lead ions, hydrochloric acid or sodium hydroxide was used to adjust the pH of the treatment solution to 4 to 5, the concentration of heavy metal lead ions was 500ppm, the temperature was 30 ℃, the shaking table speed was 200r/min, and after 2 hours, the concentration of heavy metal lead ions in the target treatment solution was measured to obtain the lead ion adsorption amount, and the results are shown in Table 1.
TABLE 1 lead ion adsorption amounts (mg/g) of composite hydrogels of examples 1 to 6
Examples
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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Amount of adsorption
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458.7
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472.1
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511.4
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491.2
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387.6
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402.3 |
Adsorption-desorption experiments:
taking the composite hydrogel for adsorbing divalent lead ions for the first time in example 1, using 0.5mol/L hydrochloric acid as a desorption agent, treating and adsorbing the composite hydrogel with 20ml of the desorption agent, detecting the concentration of heavy metal lead ions in the desorption agent after 1h, wherein the desorption rate is 93.2%, repeating the adsorption process of the composite hydrogel after desorption, and repeating the adsorption process for 3 times, wherein the adsorption amount of the composite hydrogel still reaches 415.8 mg/g.
The adsorption-desorption process of example was repeated using the first divalent lead ion-adsorbing composite hydrogel of example 5, and it was found that the adsorbed amount of the composite hydrogel was only 320.4mg/g after repeating 3 times.
Taking the repeated adsorption-desorption experiment of example 6, the adsorption amount of the composite hydrogel after repeating 3 times is only 332.5 mg/g.
2. Treatment of cadmium ions containing divalent ions
20mg of the composite hydrogel obtained in examples 1-6 was taken to treat 25ml of target treatment solution containing divalent cadmium ions, hydrochloric acid or sodium hydroxide was used to adjust the pH of the treatment solution to 4-5, the concentration of heavy metal cadmium ions was 500ppm, the temperature was 30 ℃, the shaking table speed was 200r/min, and after 2h, the concentration of heavy metal cadmium ions in the target treatment solution was measured to obtain the adsorption amount of cadmium ions, and the results are shown in Table 2.
TABLE 2 cadmium ion adsorption amounts (mg/g) of composite hydrogels of examples 1 to 6
Examples
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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Amount of adsorption
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318.2
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334.7
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387.5
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369.8
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287.5
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269.2 |
Adsorption-desorption experiments:
taking the composite hydrogel for adsorbing divalent cadmium ions for the first time in example 1, treating and adsorbing the composite hydrogel with 20ml of a desorption agent by using 0.3mol/L hydrochloric acid as the desorption agent, detecting the concentration of heavy metal cadmium ions in the desorption agent after 1 hour, wherein the desorption rate is 91.4%, repeating the adsorption process of the composite hydrogel after desorption, and repeating the adsorption process for 3 times, wherein the adsorption amount of the composite hydrogel still reaches 297.6 mg/g.
The adsorption-desorption process of example was repeated using the first adsorption divalent cadmium ion composite hydrogel of example 5, and it was found that the adsorption amount of the composite hydrogel was only 246.7mg/g after repeating 3 times.
Taking the repeated adsorption-desorption experiment of example 6, the adsorption amount of the composite hydrogel after repeating 3 times is only 231.5 mg/g.
3. Treatment of nickel ions containing two valences
20mg of the composite hydrogel obtained in examples 1-6 was taken to treat 25ml of a target treatment solution containing divalent nickel ions, hydrochloric acid or sodium hydroxide was used to adjust the pH of the treatment solution to 4-5, the concentration of heavy metal nickel ions was 500ppm, the temperature was 30 ℃, the shaking table speed was 200r/min, and after 2h, the concentration of heavy metal nickel ions in the target treatment solution was measured to obtain the nickel ion adsorption capacity, and the results are shown in Table 2.
TABLE 3 Nickel ion adsorption amounts (mg/g) of composite hydrogels of examples 1 to 6
Examples
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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Amount of adsorption
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238.2
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251.9
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289.4
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268.7
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224.7
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231.5 |
Adsorption-desorption experiments:
taking the composite hydrogel for adsorbing divalent nickel ions for the first time in example 1, treating and adsorbing the composite hydrogel with 20ml of a desorption agent by using 1.0mol/L hydrochloric acid as the desorption agent, detecting the concentration of heavy metal nickel ions in the desorption agent after 1 hour, wherein the desorption rate is 94.2%, repeating the adsorption process of the composite hydrogel after desorption, and repeating the adsorption process for 3 times, wherein the adsorption amount of the composite hydrogel still reaches 219.7 mg/g.
The adsorption-desorption process of example was repeated using the first divalent nickel ion-adsorbed composite hydrogel of example 5, and it was found that the adsorbed amount of the composite hydrogel was 205.2mg/g after repeating 3 times.
The adsorption-desorption experiment of example 6 was repeated 3 times, and the adsorption amount of the composite hydrogel was 216.8 mg/g.
Comparative example 1
Dissolving 0.3g of titanium tetrachloride (0.1738ml) in 15ml of absolute ethanol to obtain an alcoholic solution of titanium tetrachloride, adding 0.03g of manganese chloride, stirring for 15min under the condition of magnetic stirring in a water bath at 60 ℃, standing for 1h to obtain gel, drying the gel for 2h at 70 ℃ to obtain dry gel, and grinding the dry gel to obtain powder.
Comparative example 2
The xerogel powder obtained in comparative example 1 was calcined at 450 ℃ for 1 h.
Comparative example 3
Dissolving 18g of chitosan in 1.2L of acetic acid solution with the concentration of 1%, quickly adding 1180g of acrylamide, quickly and uniformly stirring, introducing nitrogen for 30min, adding 90mL of potassium persulfate with the concentration of 0.02g/mL under the protection of nitrogen, reacting for 1.5h under the condition of water bath at the temperature of 60 ℃, and cooling the reaction mixture after the reaction is finished.
Adjusting the cooled reaction mixture to be neutral by using 5% sodium hydroxide, pouring the neutral reaction mixture into 95% ethanol, carrying out suction filtration to obtain floccules, washing the floccules by using distilled water and absolute ethanol to obtain white solids, soaking the white solids in acetone for 24 hours, removing homopolymers in the mixture, carrying out suction filtration, washing precipitates by using 95% ethanol to remove a solvent, and drying the precipitates for 24 hours at 50 ℃ to obtain the chitosan and acrylamide graft copolymer.
Comparative example 4
Heavy metal ion adsorption experiments were carried out on the materials obtained in comparative examples 1 to 3 in accordance with the amount and procedure of example 7, and it was found that the adsorption amounts of divalent lead ions, divalent cadmium ions and divalent nickel ions of the manganese-doped titanium dioxide obtained in comparative examples 1 and 2 were extremely low, and were only less than 40mg/g, and the adsorption amounts of divalent lead ions, divalent cadmium ions and divalent nickel ions of the material obtained in comparative example 3 were 264.2mg/g, 189.1mg/g and 154.3mg/g, respectively, and that the adsorption and desorption processes were repeated three times for the adsorption material obtained in comparative example 3, and that the adsorption amounts of divalent lead ions, divalent cadmium ions and divalent nickel ions were 187.5mg/g, 121.2mg/g and 104.3mg/g, respectively.