Affiliation:
1. Federal Research Center of Coal and Coal Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Science
Abstract
Humic substances (HSs) extracted from brown coal, peat, and other sources are considered as anefficient and affordable sorbent used to trap and bind heavy metal ions, which are hazardous to the environment.This paper provides an overview of modern works on this subject matter. Typical structural characteristicsand properties of HSs and methods for their extraction from brown coal, peat, swamp waters, and othermedia are described, and quantitative results of a wide range of experiments on the sorption of metal ions byHSs are presented. Significant fluctuations in the measured sorption capacity of HSs in different experimentsprobably arise not so much due to variations in the elemental composition and structure of HSs extractedfrom different sources, but they are associated with experimental conditions, such as the acidity (pH) of solution,ionic strength, concentration of metal ions, and concentration of HSs in the solution. In terms of theorder of magnitude, the maximum sorption capacity of HSs is comparable to the total concentration of surfacecarboxyl and hydroxyl groups, and it amounts to several millimoles of metal ions per gram of HSs
Publisher
The Russian Academy of Sciences
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