The invention belongs to the technical field of adsorption materials, and particularly relates to an attapulgite and
aniline-o-aminophenol composite adsorbent and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises: S1, pretreatment:
grinding attapulgite to obtain
powder; S2, acidification: adding the
powder to
ultrapure water, stirring, standing, sucking the supernatant, taking the middle layer refined soil to obtain purified attapulgite, adding the purified attapulgite to a
hydrochloric acid solution, vibrating, carrying out
centrifugation, carrying out suction
filtration on the suspension to obtain filter residue, and washing to achieve a
neutral state so as to obtain acidified attapulgite; S3, modification: dissolving a
coupling agent in an
ethanol aqueous solution, dispersing, hydrolyzing, adding the acidified attapulgite, carrying out stirring filtering, washing, and
drying to obtain modified attapulgite; and S4, in-situ
polymerization: dissolving
aniline and
hydrochloric acid in
ultrapure water, adding o-aminophenol and the modified attapulgite
slurry, uniformly mixing, adding
ammonium persulfate, carrying out suction
filtration after completing the reaction, washing the obtained filter residue until the filtrate is colorless,
drying the filter residue, and
grinding. According to the present invention, the adsorbent can effectively adsorb Cr(VI) in
wastewater.