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Research on Cadmium Adsorption-Desorption Dynamics of Biochars

Version 1 : Received: 28 June 2021 / Approved: 30 June 2021 / Online: 30 June 2021 (09:10:01 CEST)

How to cite: Zhang, Z.; Dang, S.; Zheng, G.; Li, H. Research on Cadmium Adsorption-Desorption Dynamics of Biochars. Preprints 2021, 2021060720. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202106.0720.v1 Zhang, Z.; Dang, S.; Zheng, G.; Li, H. Research on Cadmium Adsorption-Desorption Dynamics of Biochars. Preprints 2021, 2021060720. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202106.0720.v1

Abstract

Biochar has high potential usage in retaining various contaminants, wastewater treatment, and water purification. In this study, three rice husk derived biochars with pyrolysis temperature 300, 400 and 500 ºC, respectively, and pristine rice rusk were used to remove cadmium from aqueous solution. The results showed that about 70% or more of Cd2+ adsorption occurred in the first 960 mins of adsorption kinetics. The Cd2+ adsorption capacity under equilibrium increased with increasing pyrolysis temperature, probably attributed to the increased specific surface area (SSA) under higher pyrolysis temperature noting that significant linear correlation occurred between Cd2+ adsorption capacity and SSA. The Cd2+ adsorption could be best fitted by pseudo-second order model relative to Elovich model and pseudo-first order model. The Cd2+ adsorption rates were higher in film diffusion stage, indicating that film diffusion stage was significant and fast in the early stage of Cd2+ adsorption. In contrast, Cd2+ adsorption by intra-particle diffusion accounted for 47.0%, 47.9% and 43.9% on average of the total Cd2+ adsorption, respectively, indicating that intra-particle diffusion of Cd2+ played a more predominant role in limiting Cd2+ adsorption rate. When reaching Cd2+ desorption equilibrium, removal ratio (RR) values were averaged 0.96, 0.91, and 0.90 under three initial concentrations. More than 90 percentage on average of Cd2+ was removed from aqueous solution by biochars and rice rusk as well, thus biochars can be used to efficiently remove contaminants from aqueous environment. Cation exchange, electrostatic attraction, and the complexation with surface functional groups could be the main dominant mechanisms for Cd2+ adsorption-desorption on biochars.

Keywords

Biochar; Cadmium; Pyrolysis temperature; Adsorption kinetics; Desorption

Subject

Social Sciences, Anthropology

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