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Sorptive behaviour of chromium on polyethylene microbeads in artificial seawater

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Nur Farhan Zon, Shazani Sarijan, Shazani Sarijan, Shazani Sarijan, Shazani Sarijan, Nur Farhan Zon, Shamila Azman Shamila Azman Ammar Iskendar, Shamila Azman Shamila Azman Shamila Azman Shamila Azman Shamila Azman Shamila Azman Shamila Azman Ammar Iskendar, Nur Farhan Zon, Shamila Azman Shamila Azman Shamila Azman Shazani Sarijan, Nur Farhan Zon, Nur Farhan Zon, Nur Farhan Zon, Razali Ismail, Shamila Azman Shamila Azman

Summary

This laboratory study examined how chromium — a toxic heavy metal — adsorbs onto polyethylene microbeads in artificial seawater, finding that microplastics can accumulate chromium at concentrations far above those in surrounding water. The results support the concern that microplastics act as vectors concentrating heavy metal pollutants in marine environments.

Polymers

LDPE PE

Study Type Environmental

This study investigates the interactions between chromium (Cr) and microplastic under controlled laboratory conditions using low density polyethylene microbeads as plastic particles. Chromium was added to suspensions of in artificial seawater to investigate heavy metal adsorption on microbeads surface. Polyethylene microbeads proved to have affinity in providing surface area for chromium. It served as an effective sorption surface thus lowering amounts of chromium in seawater through adsorption process. The best percentage of heavy metals adsorbed to microbeads and adsorption capacity was 1.7 µg/g and 8.5 % at 1.0 µg/mL respectively. The maximum adsorption was monitored for 180 hours. Kinetic study was performed and fitted well in pseudo-first-order kinetic. In term of isotherm, dataset was in good agreement with both Langmuir and Freundlich with correlation at 0.977 and 0.9606 respectively. Adsorption of chromium to polyethylene microbeads had important implications for the potential role of microplastics, in this case microbeadschromium contaminated act as a quantified link in aquatic food webs.

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