Alcaraz, L.; Escudero, M.E.; Alguacil, F.J.; Llorente, I.; Urbieta, A.; Fernández, P.; López, F.A. Dysprosium Removal from Water Using Active Carbons Obtained from Spent Coffee Ground. Nanomaterials2019, 9, 1372.
Alcaraz, L.; Escudero, M.E.; Alguacil, F.J.; Llorente, I.; Urbieta, A.; Fernández, P.; López, F.A. Dysprosium Removal from Water Using Active Carbons Obtained from Spent Coffee Ground. Nanomaterials 2019, 9, 1372.
Abstract
This paper describes the physico-chemical study of the adsorption of dysprosium (Dy3+) in aqueous solution onto two types of activated carbons synthesized from spent coffee ground. KOH activated carbon is a microporous material with a specific BET surface area of 2330 m2·g-1 and pores with a diameter of 3.2 nm. Carbon activated with water vapor and N2 is a solid mesoporous, with pores of 5.7 nm in diameter and a specific surface of 982 m2·g-1. A significant dependence of the adsorption capacity on the solution pH was found, while it does not depend significantly neither on the dysprosium concentration nor on the temperature. A maximum adsorption capacity of 31.26 mg·g-1 and 33.52 mg·g-1 for the chemically and physically activated carbons, respectively, were found. In both cases, the results obtained from adsorption isotherms and kinetic study were better fit to a Langmuir model and a pseudo-second-order kinetics. In addition, thermodynamic results indicate that dysprosium adsorption onto both activated carbons is an exothermic, spontaneous and favorable process.
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