Kinetics of adsorption of organic and inorganic phosphates by short- range ordered precipitate of aluminum

Abstract

The kinetics of the adsorption of orthophosphate (Pi), inositol hexaphosphate (IHP), inositol monophosphate (IMP) and glucose 6-phosphate (G6P) by short-range ordered precipitate of Al were studied at the initial pH 4.50 and in the temperature range of 278-308 K. The amounts of Pi and IHP adsorbed by the Al precipitate were much higher than those of IMP and G6P adsorbed in the temperature range and reaction periods studied. The adsorption can be divided into two stages, a fast adsorption before 1 h and a slow adsorption between 1 and 24 h. The adsorption at both stages obeyed the first-order kinetics. The rate constants for the adsorption of IHP were much greater than those of G6P and IMP at the same temperature. -from Authors