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Adsorption of Organic Matter from Papermaking Wastewater by CoFe2O4-Coated Sand in Batch and Fixed-Bed Systems

Journal

BIORESOURCES
Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages 5806-5820

Publisher

NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIV DEPT WOOD & PAPER SCI
DOI: 10.15376/biores.16.3.5806-5820

Keywords

Fixed-bed column; Adsorption; COD removal; Advanced treatment

Funding

  1. Guangxi Open Fund for Clean Pulp and Paper and Pollution Control, Guangxi University [ZR2018017]

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This study investigates the adsorption of substances contributing to COD in secondary treated effluents of pulp and paper mills using CoFe2O4 and quartz sand-coated CoFe2O4. The experiments demonstrate that CoFe2O4-coated sand has good adsorption performance and stability. Results show that an increase in feed flow rate and initial pH can decrease breakthrough time, while an increase in bed depth can increase breakthrough time.
The secondary treated effluents of pulp and paper mills contain high chemical oxygen demand (COD) that is associated with organic matter. Therefore, this study explores the adsorption of substances contributing to COD using CoFe2O4 and quartz sand-coated CoFe2O4 in batch and fixed-bed column experiments. X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller analysis, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy were used to characterize the adsorbents. The quartz sandloaded CoFe2O4 exhibited a larger pore volume and average pore size. Batch experiments revealed that adsorption on CoFe2O4 closely fit the pseudo-second-order model. To explore the effects of bed depth, feed flow rate, and initial solution pH on the breakthrough characteristics of CoFe2O4-coated sand, fixed-bed column experiments were conducted, and the breakthrough curves were drawn from the ratio of influent COD concentration to effluent COD concentration. The breakthrough time decreased with an increase in the feed flow rate and initial pH but increased with the bed depth. According to the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis, CoFe2O4-coated sand showed excellent stability due to negligible leaching of metallic elements. These findings have important implications for the advanced treatment of industrial wastewater.

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