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Macroporous poly(glycidyl methacrylate-coethylene glycol dimethacrylate) (PGME) was synthesized by suspension copolymerization and functionalized with diethylene triamine (PGME-deta). The effect of pH, contact time, and sorbent mass on sorption efficiency of initial and functionalized copolymer sample for removal of Acid Orange 10 dye from aqueous solutions was studied. No dye was sorbed by nonfunctionalized copolymer, indicating that sorption of Acid Orange 10 by PGME-deta is specific, through amino groups. The isotherm data are best fitted by Langmuir model, indicating homogeneous distribution of active sites in PGME-deta as well as monolayer sorp-tion. Sorption kinetics study showed that the sorption of Acid Orange 10 by PGME-deta obeys the pseudo-secondorder kinetic model. It was shown that PGME-deta selectively sorbs Acid Orange 10 from binary solution with Bezaktiv Rot reactive dye. The comparison of sorption characteristics of PGME-deta with activated carbon showed that this functionalized copolymer might be used as an alternative sorbent for textile dyes.

The removal of heavy metals from hydro-metallurgical and other industries' wastewaters, their safe storage and possible recovery from waste- water streams is one of the greater ecological problems of modern society. Conventional methods, like precipitation, adsorption and biosorption, electrowinning, membrane separation, solvent extraction and ion exchange are often ineffective, expensive and can generate secondary pollution. On the other hand, chelating polymers, consisting of crosslinked copolymers as a solid support and functional group (ligand), are capable of selectively loading different metal ions from aqueous solutions. In the relatively simple process, the chelating copolymer is contacted with the contaminated solution, loaded with metal ions, and stripped with the appropriate eluent. Important properties of chelating polymers are high capacity, high selectivity and fast kinetics combined with mechanical stability and chemical inertness. Macroporous hydrophilic copolymers of glycidyl methacrylate and ethylene glycol dimethacrylate modified by different amines show outstanding efficiency and selectivity for the sorption of precious and heavy metals from aqueous solutions. In this study poly(GMA-co-EGDMA) copolymers were synthesized with different porosity parameters and functionalized in reactions with ethylene diamine (EDA), diethylene triamine (DETA) and triethylene tetramine (TETA). Under non-competitive conditions, in batch experiments at room temperature, the rate of sorption of Cu(II) ions from aqueous solutions and the influence of pH on it was determined for four samples of amino-functionalized poly(GMA-co-EGDMA). The sorption of Cu(II) for both amino-functionalized samples was found to be very rapid. The sorption half time, t1/2, defined as the time required to reach 50% of the total sorption capacity, was between 1 and 2 min. The maximum sorption capacity for copper (2.80 mmol/g) was obtained on SGE-10/12-deta sample. The sorption capacity of Cu(II) ions increases with increasing pH and has maximum at pH ~5. In the experimental pH range, the maximum sorption capacity of Cu(II) ions again is reached on SGE-10/12-deta. By comparing literature data and obtained results it is possible to conclude that amino-functionalized macroporous copolymers based on glycidyl methacrylate are efficient for sorption of Cu(II) ions from aqueous solutions and sorption capacity for copper mostly depends on type of amine with which the basic copolymer is functionalized

Macroporous crosslinked poly(GMA-co-EGDMA) was synthesized by the suspension copolymerisation and functionalized by the ring-opening reaction of the pendant epoxy groups with ethylene diamine. The porosity parameters (specific pore volume, specific surface area, and pore diameter, which corresponds to half of the pore volume) for the initial and amino-functionalized copolymer samples were calculated from the cumulative pore volume distribution curves obtained by mercury porosimetry. The selectivity, sorption capacity and sorption rate of amino-functionalized poly(GMA-co-EGDMA)-en were determined under static conditions. The sorption of Cu(ll) and Ag(l) ions on poly(GMA-co-EGDMA)-en was very rapid (ti/2 value about 1 min). Slower sorption was observed for Au(lll) ions with a ti/2 value of 6.5 minutes. The different rates of Au(lll), Cu(ll) and Ag(l) sorption could be applied for gold, copper and silver ion separation from mixed solutions. The sorption of Ni(ll) and Cu(ll) ions from galvanic solution under competitive conditions was also fast, with ti/2 values of 0.5 and 2 min, respectively. However, Zn(ll) sorption was considerably slower (a ti/2 of 10 min). Similar results were obtained for galvanic solution under dynamic conditions, i.e., the metal sorption capacities of poly(GMA-co-EGDMA)-en decreased in the order: Ni(ll) > Cu(ll) >> Zn(ll). The reusability of amino-functionalized poly(GMA-co-EGDMA) for Cu(ll) sorption was tested in four sorption/desorption cycles. Regeneration experiments were performed with 0.1 and 1 M H2SO4 showed a Cu(ll) capacity loss of 50 % in the first sorption/desorption cycle. The sorption capacity increased when additional neutralization with 0.1 and 1 M NaOH was performed after each sorption/desorption cycle

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