Behavior of phenol adsorption on thermal modified activated carbon |
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Authors: | Dengfeng Zhang Peili Huo Wei Liu |
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Affiliation: | Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China |
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Abstract: | Adsorption process is acknowledged as an effective option for phenolic wastewater treatment. In this work, the activated carbon (AC) samples after thermalmodification were prepared by usingmuffle furnace. The phenol adsorption kinetics and equilibriummeasurementswere carried out under static conditions at temperature ranging from 25 to 55℃. The test results show that the thermal modification can enhance phenol adsorption on AC samples. The porous structure and surface chemistry analyses indicate that the decay in pore morphology and decrease of total oxygen-containing functional groups are found for the thermal modified AC samples. Thus, it can be further inferred that the decrease of total oxygen-containing functional groups on the modified AC samples is the main reason for the enhanced phenol adsorption capacity. For both the raw sample and the optimum modified AC sample at 900℃, the pseudo-second order kinetics and Langmuir models are found to fit the experimental data verywell. Themaximumphenol adsorption capacity of the optimummodified AC sample can reach 144.93 mg·g-1 which is higher than that of the raw sample, i.e. 119.53 mg·g-1. Adsorption thermodynamics analysis confirms that the phenol adsorption on the optimum modified AC sample is an exothermic process and mainly via physical adsorption. |
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Keywords: | Adsorbents Activated carbon Phenol Adsorption Thermal modification Oxygen-containing functional groups |
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