期刊
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
卷 313, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115020
关键词
Activated carbon; Adsorption; Neonicotinoid pesticides; Sludge-based adsorbents
资金
- Comunidad de Madrid through Industrial PhD projects [IND2017/AMB-7720, IND2019/AMB-17114]
- REMTAVARES-CM Network [S2018/EMT-4341]
- European Social Fund [PID 2020-116478RB-I00, MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033]
Due to stricter legislation on sewage sludge disposal, finding sustainable and low-cost solutions to manage this waste has become necessary. In this study, five sludge were used to synthesize activated carbons for adsorption removal of three neonicotinoid pesticides. The activated carbons prepared from industrial origin sewage sludge showed the best adsorption capacity, and the use of CO2 increased the specific surface area of the carbon materials. The experimental data for adsorption kinetics and isotherms were well-fitted by the pseudo-second-order kinetic model and the Guggenheim-Anderson-de Boer (GAB) empirical model, respectively.
Due to the increasingly strict legislation about the disposal of sewage sludge, it is necessary to find sustainable solutions to manage this waste at low-cost conditions. In addition, priority contaminants are now attracting much attention since they are usually detected in WWTP effluents. In this work, five sludge have been used as precursors for the synthesis of activated carbons subsequently tested in the removal by adsorption of three neonicotinoid pesticides listed in the EU Watch List: acetamiprid (ACT), thiamethoxam (THM), and imidacloprid (IMD). Generally, the activated carbons were prepared by chemical activation using ZnCl2 as an activating agent and then the resulting materials were pyrolyzed at 800 degrees C for 2 h. The synthesized activated carbons showed different textural properties; thus, the best adsorption results were found for AC-Industrial activated carbon, obtained from an industrial origin sewage sludge, with high equilibrium adsorption capacities (q(e) = 104.2, 137.0, and 119.9 mg g(-1)), for ACT, THM, and IMD, respectively. Furthermore, it was elucidated that the use of CO2 in the synthesis generated an opening, followed by widening, of the narrowest microporosity, increasing the specific surface area of the carbon materials. The kinetic and isotherm adsorption experimental data were obtained for each of the pesticide-activated carbon systems; thus, the kinetic curves were well-fitted to the pseudo-second-order kinetic model, as well as, Freundlich and Guggenheim-Anderson-de Boer (GAB) empirical models were used for the fitting of the equilibrium adsorption isotherms, finding that GAB model best fitted the experimental data. Additionally, the regeneration of the activated carbons using methanol as a regenerating agent and the single and simultaneous adsorption of a hospital wastewater effluent, fortified with the three studied pesticides have been explored.
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