出版社:Thai Society of Higher Eduction Institutes on Environment
摘要:The optimization conditions of high Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) of coal fly ash (CFA) zeolitemodified with chitosan were studied. The experimental design had employed Box-Behnkendesign with 3 factors at 3 levels. The independent variables were chitosan concentration (5-15g/L), retention time (12-36 hours), and temperature (40-60ºC). It is resulted that the independentvariables of chitosan concentration had significant effect to CEC at 95% confidence (P<0.05). Invice versa, retention time and temperature had no significant effect to CEC at 95% confidence(P>0.05). However, the interaction effect between chitosan concentration with retention time andretention time with temperature had significant effect to CEC at 95% confidence (P<0.05) Thus,the optimum conditions of high CEC (474.21 meq/100g) were 15 g/L of chitosan concentration,36 hours of retention time, and 40ºC of temperature. Regarding with 3 times of validation forsuch optimum conditions, CEC was 474.21± 5 meq/100g which was closely the predicted value.CEC of chitosan modified with CFA-zeolite had CEC more than CFA-zeolite (272.12 meq/100g)about 2 times, indicating chitosan was the appropriate material for increasing CEC on CFA-zeolite.