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POWDER TECHNOLOGY
Volume 326, Issue -, Pages 181-189Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2017.12.034
Keywords
Shrimp shell; Activated carbon; Carbonization and activation; Dyes; Adsorption
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21407050]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [22A201514019]
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In this work, shrimp shell waste was used as a novel precursor for the production of a net-like porous activated carbon by solution-processed carbonization and chemical activation with phosphoric acid (H3PO4). The H3PO4 activation of activated carbon from shrimp shell (PS-Ac) was characterized in terms of textural, surface and morphological properties by N-2 sorption, Raman, HR-TEM and SEM-EDS analyses. It showed that PS-Ac was a net-like porous material with mesoporous structures. The average pore size and BET surface area were 4.5 nm and 560.6 m(2) g(-1), respectively. The obtained PS-Ac was then employed for the adsorption of methylene blue (MB) dyes and systematically investigated the effect of solution pH, initial concentration, contact time and temperature for MB adsorption. Experimental data were well described by the Langmuir isotherm and the pseudo-second order model with the maximum adsorption capacity of 826 mg g(-1)(MB), which showed to be high compared to other ACs reported in the literature. Thermodynamic parameters indicated that PS-Ac for MB adsorption process was spontaneous and endothermic. Moreover, coupled with experimental results, Fr-IR and XPS analysis suggested that the adsorption mechanism of MB onto PS-Ac was possible attributed to electrostatic interaction between the surface of functional groups (-PO43-, -C00(-), -O-) on adsorbent and the cation ions MB-N+ in the basic solution. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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