Adsorption of atrazine herbicide from water by diospyros kaki fruit waste activated carbon

In this work, Diospyros kaki fruit waste was employed as a precursor material to develop a high surface area activated carbon, which efficiently removed the toxic herbicide atrazine (ATZ) from synthetic water solutions and river waters. The alternative activated carbon presented excellent characteri...

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Autores:
de O. Salomón, Yamil L.
georgin, jordana
P. Franco, Dison S.
Netto, Matias S.
A. Piccilli, Daniel G.
Foletto, Edson
Pinto, Diana
S. Oliveira, Marcos L.
Dotto, Guilherme Luiz
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2021
Institución:
Corporación Universidad de la Costa
Repositorio:
REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/9220
Acceso en línea:
https://hdl.handle.net/11323/9220
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2021.117990
https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
Palabra clave:
Diospyros
kaki
Adsorption
Atrazine
Isotherms
Thermodynamics
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Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
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Summary:In this work, Diospyros kaki fruit waste was employed as a precursor material to develop a high surface area activated carbon, which efficiently removed the toxic herbicide atrazine (ATZ) from synthetic water solutions and river waters. The alternative activated carbon presented excellent characteristics and structure, including high values of specific surface area (1067 m2 g 1) and pore volume (0.530 cm3 g 1) and some important functional groups on the surface. The temperature positively influenced the adsorption capacity, from 194.20 to 211.51 mg g 1. The Freundlich model was the proper one to represent the equilibrium data. Thermodynamic parameters confirmed the endothermic nature of the adsorption process. Kinetic studies confirmed that equilibrium was reached until 240 min, regardless of ATZ initial concentration. The LDF model adjusted well to the kinetic data, resulting in a diffusion coefficient ranging from 0.89x10-9 to 1.63x10-9 cm2 s 1 as the ATZ concentration increased. The activated carbon also decreased 85% of the ATZ concentration in a river water sample. Overall, the activated carbon developed from Diospyros kaki fruit waste presented an efficient ATZ removal from aqueous matrices.