| Abstract: | Abstract Melamine‐formaldehyde‐thiourea (MFT) chelating resin were prepared using melamine (2,4,6‐triamino‐1,3,5‐triazine), formaldehyde, and thiourea and this resin has been used for separation and recovery of silver(I) ions from copper(II) and zinc(II) base metals and calcium(II) alkaline‐earth metal in aqueous solution. The MFT chelating resin was characterized by elemental analysis and FT‐IR spectra. The effect of pH, adsorption capacity, and equilibrium time by batch method and adsorption, elution, flow rate, column capacity, and recovery by column method were studied. The maximum uptake values of MFT resin were found as 60.05 mg Ag+/g by batch method and 11.08 mg Ag+/g, 0.052 mg Zn2+/g, 0.083 mg Cu2+/g and 0.020 mg Ca2+/g by column method. It was seen that MFT resin showed higher uptake behavior for silver(I) ions than base and earth metals due to chelation. |
