International Science and Technology Journal

In this study an easy, simple and inexpensive method was used for converting the unselective Ion exchange in its hydrogen form (IEH) to the selective resin by hybridizing procedure. The ion exchange resin has developed into two types of selective hybrid resins; a) by loading copper hydroxide on the ion exchange by using copper nitrate and obtaining IE-Cu resin; b) loading iron hydroxides on the ion exchange by oxidizing of ferrous with potassium permanganate in alkaline medium to produced IE-Fe, the resins were prepared using a batch system. Many experiments were conducted on the hybrid resins, where the metals content were estimated by spectrophotometer, and the content metals loaded on each resin were: 227.6 mg g-1 of copper and the iron content was 198.3 mg g-1, the effect of temperature, density and stability of hybrid resins in different aqueous media were also conducted. The results showed that the total capacity of (metal content) of hybrid resin is effective in chemisorption processes, separation, preconcentration and determination of some ion such as arsenic, cyanide and others. The results provide that the resins have a high degree of stability in various aqueous medium, while the metal content was not affected at temperature up to 35 °C, while the density of resins was higher than the density of water and reached to 1.24 g mL-1 it is suitable for adsorption processes in the batch and flow system.