Mechanistic pathways of cationic and anionic surfactants sorption by kaolinite in water

Mamoun Fellah; Naouel Hezil; Kamel Guerfi; Ridha Djellabi; Alex Montagne; Alain Iost; Kirill Borodin; Aleksei Obrosov

doi:10.1007/s11356-020-11083-6

Mechanistic pathways of cationic and anionic surfactants sorption by kaolinite in water

Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2021 Feb;28(6):7307-7321. doi: 10.1007/s11356-020-11083-6. Epub 2020 Oct 7.

Authors

Mamoun Fellah^{1

2}, Naouel Hezil^{3

4}, Kamel Guerfi⁵, Ridha Djellabi⁶, Alex Montagne⁷, Alain Iost⁷, Kirill Borodin^{8

9}, Aleksei Obrosov¹⁰

Affiliations

¹ Mechanical Engineering Department, ABBES Laghrour-University, P.O 1252, 40004, Khenchela, Algeria. mamoun.fellah@yahoo.fr.
² Tribology and Materials Group, Laboratory of Foundry, Badji Mokhtar University, B. O, 12 CP, 23000, Annaba, Algeria. mamoun.fellah@yahoo.fr.
³ Matter Sciences Department, ABBES Laghrour - University, P.O 1252, 40004, Khenchela, Algeria.
⁴ Advanced Materials Engineering and Sciences Laboraory, P.O 1252, 40004, Khenchela, Algeria.
⁵ Laboratory of Water Treatment and valorization of the Industrial, Badji Mokhtar University, B. O, 12 CP, 23000, Annaba, Algeria.
⁶ Department of Environmental Engineering, College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518055, People's Republic of China.
⁷ Laboratory of Mechanics Surfaces and Materials Processing, ARTS ET METIERS ParisTech, 8, Boulevard Louis XIV, 59046, Lille Cedex, France.
⁸ M. N. Mikheev Institute of Metal Physics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 18 S. Kovalevskoi Str., Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation, 620108.
⁹ Ural Federal University, 19 Mira Str., Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation, 620002.
¹⁰ Department of Physical Metallurgy and Materials Technology, Brandenburg Technical University, 03046, Cottbus, Germany.

PMID: 33029773
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-11083-6

Abstract

Surfactants are widely used in many chemical industries and as primary components of cleaning detergents due to their specific characteristics, which in turn results in high pollution of domestic and industrial wastewaters by such substances. In this study, the mechanistic pathways of the adsorption of cationic benzyl-dimethyl-dodecyl ammonium bromide (BDDAB) and anionic sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) surfactants on kaolinite clay in water were investigated. The results showed that the adsorption of anionic surfactant (SDS) on kaolinite is better compared with cationic surfactant (BDDAB), wherein the ♦maximum adsorption capacity was found 161.4 μmol g^-1 and 234 μmol g^-1 for BDDAB and SDS, respectively. Adsorption kinetics were the best suited to pseudo-second-order model for both BDDAB and SDS with an adsorption rate constant of 0.028 g μmol^-1 min^-1 and 0.023 g μmol^-1 min^-1, respectively. Meanwhile, the adsorption of BDDAB by kaolinite showed that the isotherm adsorption tended to follow the Langmuir-Freundlich and Freundlich isotherm models. However, the SDS adsorption isotherm obeyed only the Langmuir-Freundlich model.

Keywords: Adsorption; Adsorption modeling; Kaolinite; Surfactant; Water remediation.

MeSH terms

Adsorption
Kaolin*
Kinetics
Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate
Surface-Active Agents
Water
Water Pollutants, Chemical*

Substances

Surface-Active Agents
Water Pollutants, Chemical
Water
Kaolin
Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate