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CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 280, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.130877
Keywords
Activation; Lignin; Boric acid; Tetracyclines
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFD0201200, 2016YFD0201203]
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A mild and one-pot activation approach of activated carbon using boric acid as the activator for the adsorption of tetracyclines antibiotics in water was studied. Boric acid activated carbon (BAC) from bioresource showed higher removal efficiency than biochar and had a maximum adsorption capacity of 173.9 mg/g for TCs. The interactions between BAC and TCs were identified as hydrogen bond interaction, pi-pi interaction, and electrostatic interaction, influenced by the surface charge of BAC and TCs' ions species in different pH environments. Adsorption kinetics, isotherm models, and thermodynamics were thoroughly studied, demonstrating a spontaneous and favorable process.
A mild and one-pot activation approach of activated carbon was found. The feasibility of boric acid as the activated reagent which was used for the adsorption of four tetracyclines antibiotics (TCs) in water. Boric acid activated carbon (BAC) from bioresource has a much higher removal efficiency than currently reported biochar. The maximum adsorption capacity of BAC is 173.9 mg/g for TCs. BAC is an ecofriendly, nontoxic, and low-cost absorbent from sawdust waste. BAC and TCs could keep coalescing at least 55 days on the surface without stable release. BAC was fully characterized by using scanning electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, Raman, zeta potential, and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller analysis; the large surface area and rich pore structure were proved. The interaction between BAC and TCs are hydrogen bond interaction, pi-pi interaction, and electrostatic interaction. These interactions are also related to the surface charge of BAC and the TCs' species of ions in different pH. Furthermore, the adsorption kinetics and adsorption isotherm of BAC were studied thoroughly. The pseudo-first-order, pseudo-second-order, intra-particle diffusion, Elovich Langmuir, Freundlich, and Dubinin-Radushkevich models were fitted and the physical adsorption process was proved. After the study on adsorption thermodynamics, adsorption exhibits a spontaneous and favorable process.
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