Affiliation:
1. Department of Physical Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Sciences, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Maria Curie-Sklodowska Sq. 3, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
Abstract
This work presents comprehensive studies of the adsorption of neutral and ionic forms of organic adsorbates from aqueous solutions on activated carbon. The influence of pH on the equilibrium and kinetics of the adsorption of methylene blue (MB) and organic acids, benzoic (BA), 2-nitrobenzoic (2-NBA), 3-nitrobenzoic (3-NBA), and 4-nitrobenzoic (4-NBA) acid, was investigated. Experimental adsorption isotherms were analyzed using the generalized Langmuir isotherm equation (R2 = 0.932–0.995). Adsorption rate data were studied using multiple adsorption kinetics equations, of which the multi-exponential equation gave the best fit quality (R2 − 1 = (6.3 × 10−6)–(2.1 × 10−3)). The half-time was also used to represent the effect of pH on adsorption kinetics. Strong dependences of the adsorption efficiency on the solution pH were demonstrated. In the case of organic acid adsorption, the amount and rate of this process increased with a decrease in pH. Moreover, larger adsorbed amounts of methylene blue were recorded in an alkaline environment in a relatively short time. The maximum absorbed amounts were 11.59 mmol/g, 6.57 mmol/g, 9.38 mmol/g, 2.70 mmol/g, and 0.24 mmol/g for BA, 2NBA, 3-NBA, 4-NBA, and MB. The pure activated carbon and the selected samples after adsorption were investigated using thermal analysis and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
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