It is a great challenge
to sustainably produce and apply water-based
coatings and inks in terms of realizing the green resource utilization
of polyacrylate latex solid waste (PLSW) and avoid its secondary pollution.
In this paper, a kind of high value-added amphoteric ion-exchange
resin (AIER) was prepared by using diethylenetriamine to amidate PLSW
under the optimized conditions from a Box-Behnken design. Its adsorption
and regeneration properties and the universality of the method were
investigated. The results suggested that AIER possessed a high removal
efficiency to anionic dyes, and the batch dye adsorption processes
were endothermic and spontaneous, which is consistent with a pseudo-second-order
kinetic model. The penetration adsorption capacities of AIER were
recorded to be 987.08 mg/g for RR239 and 1037.75 mg/g for RB5 at the
optimized operating conditions of column height = 6.4 cm, flow rate
= 1 mL/min, and dye solution of 500 mg/L. They were more than 200
times larger than that of commercial activated carbon when the mixture
composed of AIER particle and diatomite particle (filter aid agent)
was used as a fixed-bed adsorbent. Zeta potential analysis results
indicated that the good adsorption and regeneration performances of
AIER were mainly attributed to the presence of amino and carboxyl
groups in the molecular structure of AIER. Most importantly, this
method possessed excellent practicability and universality for different
types of PLSW from factory wastewater. The results provide a feasible
method and theoretical basis for the green resource utilization of
PLSW, and the goal of “waste control by waste” was fundamentally
achieved.