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Removal of emerging organic contaminants from aqueous systems: adsorption and location of methyl-tertiary-butylether on synthetic ferrierite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

A. Martucci ,
L. Leardini ,
M. Nassi ,
E. Sarti ,
R. Bagatin  and
L. Pasti
A. Martucci*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara, Via Saragat, 1, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
L. Leardini
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of Messina, Viale Ferdinando Stagno d’Alcontres 31, I-98166 Messina S. Agata, Italy
M. Nassi
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Ferrara, Via L. Borsari, 46, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
E. Sarti
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Ferrara, Via L. Borsari, 46, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
R. Bagatin
Affiliation:
Research Center for Non-Conventional Energy – Istituto Eni Donegani Environmental Technologies, via Felice Maritano, 26, San Donato Milanese (MI), I-20097 Milan, Italy
L. Pasti*
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Ferrara, Via L. Borsari, 46, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
*
* E-mail: mrs@unife.it; psu@unife.it
* E-mail: mrs@unife.it; psu@unife.it
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Abstract

This study reports on experimental results concerning methyl-tert-butyl-ether (MTBE, C5H12O) adsorption from water into the pores of siliceous zeolite ferrierite (FER) by combining powder X-ray diffraction analyses and chromatography techniques. Rietveld structure refinement (Immm space group) highlighted the presence of two crystallographically independent MTBE sites located in the 10-ring channel parallel to the [001] direction (MTBE1) and in the ferrierite cage (MTBE2), respectively. On the whole, Rietveld refinement revealed clearly the incorporation of ~1.8 MTBE molecules per unit cell, in very good agreement with the weight loss given by thermogravimetric analyses, and saturation capacity as determined by adsorption isotherms. Rapid kinetics combined with good adsorption suggests that FER can be used beneficially as an adsorbent medium in removing this emerging organic contaminant from water.

Keywords

Zeolite ferrieriteX-ray diffractionadsorptionmethyl-tert-butyl-ether
Type
Research Article
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 78 , Issue 5 , October 2014 , pp. 1161 - 1175
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2014

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