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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 716, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137015
Keywords
Spent coffee grounds; Biochar; Hydrochar; Sulfonamide antibiotics; Adsorption
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- Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Bureau of China [18PTZWHZ00140]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China [2017ZX07107-001-003]
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A large amount of spent coffee grounds is produced as a processing waste each year during making the coffee beverage. Sulfonamide antibiotics (SAs) are frequently detected in the environment and cause pollution problems. In this study, biochar (BC) and hydrochar (HC) were derived from spent coffee grounds through pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbonization, respectively. Their characteristics and sulfonamide antibiotics adsorption were investigated and compared with reference to adsorption capacity, adsorption isotherm and kinetics. Results showed BC possessed more carbonization and less oxygen-containing functional groups than HC when checked by Elemental Analysis, Xray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectrometry and Fourier transform infrared These groups affected the adsorption of sulfonamide antibiotics and adsorption mechanism. The maximum adsorption capacities of BC for sulfadiazine (SDZ) and sulfamethoxazole (SMX) were 121.5 mu g/g and 130.1 mu g/g at 25 degrees C with the initial antibiotic concentration of 500 mu g/L, respectively. Meanwhile the maximum adsorption capacities of HC were 822 mu g/g and 85.7 mu g/g. respectively. Moreover, the adsorption mechanism for SAs adsorbed onto BC may be dominated by pi-pi electron donoracceptor interactions, yet the SAs adsorption to HC may be attributed to hydrogen bonds. Further analysis of the adsorption isotherms and kinetics, found that physical and chemical interactions were involved in the SAs adsorption onto BC and HC. Overall. results suggested that: firstly, pyrolysis was an effective thermochemical conversion of spent coffee grounds; and secondly, BC was the more promising adsorbent for removing sulfonamide antibiotics. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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