Physico-Chemical Properties of Phosphate Cation-Exchange Resin

Abstract

There are investigated sorption and desorption characteristics of phosphate cation-exchange resin among metals: copper, nickel, cobalt, an uranyl-ion depending on pH-environment, the ionic form of cation-exchange resin, concentration of investigated cations. Interaction of cation-exchange resin in Na- and H-forms with solutions of salts sulphate of copper, nickel, cobalt, chloride sodium, calcium and nitrate of uranyl is studied. It is shown, that ions of copper, nickel, cobalt and an uranyl-ion by phosphate cation-exchange resin sorb at the expense of an ionic exchange and partially at the expense of formation of coordination communications with ionogenic group of cation-exchange resin. A study of the sorption of uranyl ions depending on the concentration of uranyl nitrate in the range of 0.01-0.1 N showed that with an increase in the concentration of uranyl in the studied interval, the value of sorption of uranyl increases slightly. The studied phosphate cation exchanger has a sufficiently high sorption and desorption ability to the ions of the tested metals.