期刊
JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
卷 288, 期 -, 页码 25-33出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2015.02.008
关键词
Exfoliated graphite; DC electric field; Electroosmosis; Sorption; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH)
资金
- Helmholtz Alberta Initiative (HAI)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC Senior Industrial Research Chair in Oil Sands Process Water Treatment)
- Alberta Innovates Technology Futures Scholarship
Exfoliated graphite (EG) exhibits exceptional sorption capacity for petroleum and dissolved hydrocarbons owing to its highly hydrophobic surface and wide pore size distribution. The high price of preparing EG, however, restricts its application. Methods which increase the rate or extent of sorption to EG even further are thus longed for. Here, we assess the effects of weak direct current (DC) fields on the sorption of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon phenanthrene (PHE) to EG. DC applied to an ionic solution in a solid matrix invokes electroosmotic flow (EOF), i.e., the surface charge-induced movement of the solution. EG was exposed to weak DC fields in the presence of dissolved PHE to test if EOF increases transport of PHE to poorly accessible sorption sites. DC fields increased PHE sorption rates in EG sevenfold and reduced the desorption rate of sorbed PHE by >99%. EOF thus appeared to be highly effective in translocating PHE into pores, which contribute most of the sorption sites, but are difficult to access in the absence of EOF by molecular diffusion only. The observed 'power of power' may be used to kinetically regulate the interaction of sorbates with EG or other porous sorbents in environmental (bio-) technology. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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