Adsorption of Cadmium from Aqueous Solution by Preparation and Characterization of Copper Nanocomposites

Abstract

Copper Nanocomposites were synthesized by two different methods   under extremely precise conditions. After the preparation of the samples, XRD, SEM, FTIR, and AFM, were used to evaluate the samples.  where XRD and FTIR results showed good agreement with peak sites with standard and SEM results gave a clear agglomeration of the material atoms and AFM gave an average diameter 21.45 nm for CuOm and 82.01 nm for CuOn. The adsorption efficiency of the sample were studied by applying a set of batch experiments for Cadmium. The results shown at 50ppm for the batch process the degree of removal for Cd was determined as (99%) while the CuOn sample was in efficient. Also, optimum pH was measured, and it found to be ranged between (5-7) and optimum weight of CuOm was found to be (0.3 g).