TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of superfine pulverization of powdered activated carbon on adsorption of carbamazepine in natural source waters
AU - Bakkaloglu, Semra
AU - Ersan, Mahmut
AU - Karanfil, Tanju
AU - Apul, Onur G.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partly supported by University of Maine new faculty start-up funds and a research grant from the National Science Foundation ( CBET 1236070 ). The manuscript was not subject to agencies' policy review procedures; therefore, may not necessarily reflect their views. Graphical abstract is created with BioRender.com
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© 2021 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2021/11/1
Y1 - 2021/11/1
N2 - The purpose of this study is to investigate adsorptive removal of carbamazepine from natural source waters by superfine pulverized powdered activated carbon. Superfine pulverization is becoming an increasingly attractive approach to decrease the diffusion path of a target adsorbate molecule and improve the overall the kinetics of activated carbon adsorption. Here we report the impact of pulverization on powdered activated carbon characteristics, and carbamazepine adsorption behavior in distilled and deionized water and natural organic matter solutions. The superfine pulverization decreased the particle size of activated carbon by 50 folds and the specific surface area by 24%. In addition, the micropore volume of the activated carbon decreased from 0.23 cm3/g to 0.14 cm3/g, while mesopore and macropore volumes increased from 0.15 cm3/g and 0.11 cm3/g to 0.18 cm3/g and 0.48 cm3/g, respectively. In terms of surface chemistry, the oxygen and iron contents of the activated carbon increased notably after pulverization. Despite the decrease in surface area and increase in surface polarity, the pulverization improved the adsorption kinetics especially for short contact times i.e., < 6-h. In general, the dissolved organic carbon concentration negatively influenced the kinetic advantage of superfine pulverized activated carbon. Isotherm results indicated that the parent adsorbent has a higher adsorption capacity than superfine activated carbon in distilled and deionized water and in natural waters. This was attributed to the losses in specific surface area and favorable sorption sites inside micropores. Our literature analysis indicated that unlike the small molecular weight hydrophilic organic compounds, the pseudo-equilibrium adsorption capacity could be increased or at least not deteriorated for hydrophobic molecules (Kow > 3). Therefore, superfine pulverization of PAC can serve as a promising approach to remove micropollutants from natural source waters with a kinetic advantage.
AB - The purpose of this study is to investigate adsorptive removal of carbamazepine from natural source waters by superfine pulverized powdered activated carbon. Superfine pulverization is becoming an increasingly attractive approach to decrease the diffusion path of a target adsorbate molecule and improve the overall the kinetics of activated carbon adsorption. Here we report the impact of pulverization on powdered activated carbon characteristics, and carbamazepine adsorption behavior in distilled and deionized water and natural organic matter solutions. The superfine pulverization decreased the particle size of activated carbon by 50 folds and the specific surface area by 24%. In addition, the micropore volume of the activated carbon decreased from 0.23 cm3/g to 0.14 cm3/g, while mesopore and macropore volumes increased from 0.15 cm3/g and 0.11 cm3/g to 0.18 cm3/g and 0.48 cm3/g, respectively. In terms of surface chemistry, the oxygen and iron contents of the activated carbon increased notably after pulverization. Despite the decrease in surface area and increase in surface polarity, the pulverization improved the adsorption kinetics especially for short contact times i.e., < 6-h. In general, the dissolved organic carbon concentration negatively influenced the kinetic advantage of superfine pulverized activated carbon. Isotherm results indicated that the parent adsorbent has a higher adsorption capacity than superfine activated carbon in distilled and deionized water and in natural waters. This was attributed to the losses in specific surface area and favorable sorption sites inside micropores. Our literature analysis indicated that unlike the small molecular weight hydrophilic organic compounds, the pseudo-equilibrium adsorption capacity could be increased or at least not deteriorated for hydrophobic molecules (Kow > 3). Therefore, superfine pulverization of PAC can serve as a promising approach to remove micropollutants from natural source waters with a kinetic advantage.
KW - Adsorption kinetics
KW - Pharmaceutical
KW - Pulverization
KW - Submicron carbon
KW - Synthetic organic compounds
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U2 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148473
DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148473
M3 - Article
C2 - 34328993
AN - SCOPUS:85108778396
SN - 0048-9697
VL - 793
JO - Science of the Total Environment
JF - Science of the Total Environment
M1 - 148473
ER -