Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 316, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2020.123950
Keywords
Tetracycline; Hydrothermal liquefaction; Adsorption; Biochar; Microalgae
Funding
- Caspian Faculty of Engineering
- School of Environment, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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For the first time, using aluminum-boron electrodes in the electrocoagulation cell for harvesting the cultivated Chlorella microalgae and then performing a hydrothermal process of producing biofuel, mesoporous biochar was produced with an average pore diameter of 11.62 nm, a high specific surface area of 126.4 m(2)/g and a total pore volume of 0.55 cm(3)/g. Based on the chemical characterization, aluminum boride carbide (Al3B48C2) and boehmite [Al-2(OOH)(2)] were identified in the biochar composition so that 7.17 wt% Al and 16.67 wt% B were measured on the biochar surface by EDS analysis. As the by-product of hydrothermal converting microalgae Chlorella into biofuel, the residual biochar was innovatively used to separate tetracycline from aqueous solutions. The nonlinear form of the Freundlich model fitted the adsorption equilibrium data well with the least error function value explained by the intraparticle diffusion model. The maximum adsorption capacity of 25.94 mg/g was obtained through endothermic physical adsorption.
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