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- Title
Efficient removal of microplastics from aqueous solution by a novel magnetic biochar: performance, mechanism, and reusability.
- Authors
Wu, Juanjuan; Yang, Chan; Zhao, Hanghang; Shi, Juan; Liu, Zhifeng; Li, Chen; Song, Fengmin
- Abstract
Microplastics' (MPs) pollution removal from water bodies has become an urgent task to ensure water quality safety and water ecological security on a global scale. In this work, coprecipitation was employed to investigate the adsorption of MPs by magnetic biochar (MRB) prepared from agricultural waste rice husks in an aquatic system. The results showed that MRB can adsorb up to 99.96% of MPs in water; acidic conditions were favorable for the effective MPs' adsorption reaction, and competing anions had a greater effect on adsorption. The adsorption mechanism results revealed that the adsorption of MPs by MRB was a spontaneous process, and electrostatic attraction, surface complexation, hydrogen bonding and π-π interactions were present in the adsorption process. Furthermore, after the adsorption of MPs, MRB can be recovered by thermal treatment (500 °C) and still exhibits up to 90% MPs adsorption (after four uses). This work reveals that MRB is an inexpensive, efficient, and reusable nanoscale adsorbent for MPs pollution removal in water, which may provide new ideas for microplastic pollution control in the aqueous environment.
- Subjects
PLASTIC marine debris; AQUEOUS solutions; MICROPLASTICS; ENVIRONMENTAL security; BIOCHAR; WATER pollution
- Publication
Environmental Science & Pollution Research, 2023, Vol 30, Issue 10, p26914
- ISSN
0944-1344
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11356-022-24130-1