Sorption of Pt(II) on inactive biomass of Aspergillus Niger O-5 treated with cetyltrimethylammonium bromide

Abstract

Platinum-group cytostatic have been found in natural waters due to the current inefficiency of wastewaters treatment plants. This study was aimed to the assessment of inactive biomass of Aspergillus niger O-5 treated with cetyltrimethylammonium bromide as sorbent for solid phase extraction of [PtCl₄]^2-complex from aqueous dissolutions for the subsequent development of new water treatment technologies. Maximum sorption capacity of 54 mg·g⁻¹ was achieved at 25 °C under the following experimental conditions: pH of dissolution = 5, biomass mass = 10 mg, dissolution volume = 10 mL, Pt(II) mass = 0.5 mg and contact time = 30 min. The good fitting of the model of Ho and the increase of sorption capacity up to 102 mg·g⁻¹ with temperature suggested the chemisorption as predominant mechanism. The mean free energy of adsorption was higher than 8 kJ·mol⁻¹ for all temperatures, which also indicated the chemical character of the interaction. The absolute value of the standard molar Gibbs free energy of formation increased from 3.032 to 8.336 kJ· mol⁻¹ with temperature signifying that the sorption was thermodynamically favored, occurred spontaneously and the degree of spontaneity increased with temperature. The positive value (32.3 kJ·mol⁻¹) of the standard molar enthalpy qualified the sorption as an endothermic process, after which the adsorbent/sorbate system became more thermodynamically stable.

Keywords:

• [PtCl₄]²
• biosorption
• chemisorption
• isotherm evaluation
• Ho model
• thermodynamic parameters

Acknowledgments

This work was performed in the framework of three projects: a) Project Code No: PN223LH010-0016. Advanced materials and modern methods for the analysis of natural and industrial samples for the benefit of important sectors of the national economy and the environment (2021–2023), 2020 Convocation of the National Program of Basic Sciences of The Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of The Republic of Cuba, b) Project Code No: PN223LH010-046. Development of preconcentration/removal procedures for toxic metals and emerging contaminants in water using natural Cuban sorbents. 2023 Convocation of the National Program of Basic Sciences of The Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of The Republic of Cuba and c) Removal and Recovery of Pharmaceutical Persistent Pollutants from Wastewater by Selective Reagentless Process (RECOPHARMA), 2018-2023, of The European Communit’y Program H2020-MSCA-RISE 2017.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.