Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
Volume 40, Issue 23, Pages 3017-3030Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2018.1464066
Keywords
Adsorption; activated carbon; emerging water pollutants; pharmaceutical pollutants
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- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) [MAT2013-47811-C2-1-R]
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Batch sorption experiments were performed to study the adsorption of six emerging pollutants from aqueous solutions using a commercial granular activated carbon as adsorbent. Caffeine, clofibric acid, diclofenac, gallic acid, ibuprofen and salicylic acid were selected as representative contaminants. The activated carbon was characterized by nitrogen adsorption at 77 K, and through the determination of point of zero charge. The effects of several operational parameters, such as pH, initial concentration of organic molecules, mass of adsorbent and contact time, on the sorption behaviour were evaluated. The contact time to attain equilibrium for maximum adsorption was found to be 40 min. The kinetic data were correlated to several adsorption models, and the adsorption mechanism found to follow pseudo-second-order and intraparticle-diffusion models with external mass transfer predominating in the first 15 min of the experiment. The equilibrium adsorption data were analysed using the Freundlich, Langmuir and Toth isotherm equation models. The similar chemical structure and molecular weight of the organic pollutants studied to make the adsorption capacity of the activated carbon used very similar for all the molecules.
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