Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-03-02T22:55:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 GiselleKallineGomesCarvalho_DISSERT.pdf: 2257540 bytes, checksum: e731412b34e93ab422b0df96d21ad8b7 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-03-04T00:24:44Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 GiselleKallineGomesCarvalho_DISSERT.pdf: 2257540 bytes, checksum: e731412b34e93ab422b0df96d21ad8b7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-04T00:24:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GiselleKallineGomesCarvalho_DISSERT.pdf: 2257540 bytes, checksum: e731412b34e93ab422b0df96d21ad8b7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-11-28 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico - CNPq / Atividades industriais de minera??o, galvanoplastia e o processo de extra??o do petr?leo, vem aumentando os n?veis de metais pesados, tais como Cu, Fe, Mg e Cd, nos ecossistemas aqu?ticos. Este aumento est? relacionado ao descarte de efluentes contendo teores desses elementos acima do valor m?ximo permitido por lei. M?todos como troca i?nica, filtra??o por membranas e precipita??o qu?mica vem sendo estudados como meios de tratamentos de efluentes contaminados por esses metais. A precipita??o de metais utilizando tensoativos ani?nicos obtidos a partir de ?cidos carbox?licos surgiu como uma alternativa para a remo??o de metais de efluentes industriais. A rea??o entre ?ons bivalentes dos metais e esses tipos de tensoativos em solu??o aquosa leva a forma??o de carboxilatos de metais, que podem precipitar na forma de flocos e serem removidos, posteriormente, por um processo de decanta??o dos flocos formados ou por uma filtra??o simples. Neste trabalho, a extra??o de metais ? realizada por meio da utiliza??o do tensoativo hexadecanoato de s?dio como agente extrator. O objetivo principal ? estudar o efeito da varia??o da temperatura do meio, pH da solu??o de metal e concentra??o do tensoativo no processo de remo??o do metal. A modelagem estat?stica do estudo mostrou que o processo ? diretamente dependente das varia??es de pH e concentra??o do tensoativo, por?m inversamente proporcional e pouco dependente da varia??o de temperatura, sendo esse ?ltimo efeito considerado desprez?vel na maioria dos casos. O estudo individual do efeito da temperatura apresenta uma forte depend?ncia do processo ? temperatura de Kraft, tanto do tensoativo utilizado como agente extrator como do tensoativo obtido ap?s a rea??o desse tensoativo com o metal. A partir dos dados de temperaturas e concentra??es do tensoativo foi poss?vel o c?lculo da constante de equil?brio para a rea??o entre o hexadecanoato de s?dio e ?ons cobre. Posteriormente, foram determinados par?metros termodin?micos, comprovando que o processo ? exot?rmico e espont?neo. / Industrial activities like mining, electroplating and the oil extraction process, are increasing the levels of heavy metals such as Cu, Fe, Mg and Cd in aquatic ecosystems. This increase is related to the discharge of effluents containing trace of this elements above the maximum allowed by law. Methods such as ion exchange, membrane filtration and chemical precipitation have been studied as a means of treatment of these metals contamination. The precipitation of metals using anionic surfactants derived from carboxylic acids emerged as an alternative for the removal of metals from industrial effluents. The reaction between bivalent ions and these types of surfactants in aqueous solution leads to the formation of metal carboxylates, which can precipitate in the form of flakes and are subsequently removed by a process of decantation or simple filtration. In this work the metals extraction is performed by using the surfactant sodium hexadecanoate as extracting agent. The main purpose was to study the effect of temperature, solution pH, and concentration of surfactant in the metal removal process. The statistical design of the process showed that the process is directly dependent to changes in pH and concentration of surfactant, but inversely proportional and somewhat dependent to temperature variation, with the latter effect being considered negligible in most cases. The individual study of the effect of temperature showed a strong dependence of the process with the Kraft point, both for the surfactant used as extracting agent, as for the surfactant obtained after the reaction of this surfactant with the metal. From data of temperatures and concentrations of the surfactant was possible to calculate the equilibrium constant for the reaction between sodium hexadecanoate and copper ions. Later, thermodynamic parameters were determined, showing that the process is exothermic and spontaneous.