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Carboxylate-functionalized sugarcane bagasse as an effective and renewable adsorbent to remove methylene blue
Su-Nv Wang1, Ping Li1, Jing-Jing Gu2
1The Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Ecosystem Restoration in Industry Clusters, State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, Ministry of Education; School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
Abstract:
This study prepared a carboxylate-functionalized sugarcane bagasse (CF-SCB) from sugarcane bagasse (SCB) via a simple and low-toxicity chemical modification to enhance its capacity for adsorbing methylene blue (MB) from aqueous solutions. The success of chemical modification was confirmed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), the pore area and porosity, and zeta potential measurement analysis. The adsorption capacity of CF-SCB was investigated at different pHs, ionic strengths, temperatures, contact times and initial dye concentrations. Equilibrium data were best described by the Langmuir isotherm model, and the maximum monolayer adsorption capacity of CF-SCB (296.74 mg g-1) was greatly improved compared with SCB (77.16 mg g-1) at 30 °C. The thermodynamic study indicated that MB adsorption onto CF-SCB was a spontaneous, endothermic and entropy increased process. Adsorption kinetics followed a pseudo-second-order mode, and the adsorption mechanism was based on electrostatic interactions. The reusability study showed that CF-SCB had reasonably good reuse potential. All the results suggested that CF-SCB has high potential to be used as an effective and renewable adsorbent for MB removal from wastewater.
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