Bamboo (Acidosasa edulis) shoot shell biochar: Its potential isolation and mechanism to perrhenate as a chemical surrogate for pertechnetate.
In this work, a biochar was prepared from bamboo (Acidosasa edulis) shoot shell through slow pyrolysis (under 300-700 °C). Characterization with various tools showed that the biochar surface was highly hydrophobic and also had more basic functional groups. Batch sorption experiments showed that the biochar had strong sorption ability to perrhenate (a chemical surrogate for pertechnetate) with maximum sorption capacity of 46.46 mg/g, which was significantly higher than commercial coconut shell activated carbon and some adsorbents reported previously. Desorption experiments showed that more than 94% of total perrhenate adsorbed could be recovered using 0.1 mol/L KOH as a desorption medium. Pearson correlation analysis showed that the recovery of perrhenate by the biochars was mainly through surface adsorption mechanisms involving both high hydrophobicity and high basic sites of biochar surface.
School of Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, Fujian, China. Electronic address: huhui@fzu.edu.cn.
Hui
H
Hu
School of Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, Fujian, China.
Bangqiang
B
Jiang
Hualu Engineering & Technology Co., LTD, Xian 710065, Shanxi, China.
Huixiong
H
Wu
School of Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, Fujian, China.
Jubin
J
Zhang
National Engineering Research Center for Chemical Fertilizer Catalyst, School of Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China.
Xiaohui
X
Chen
D065966:Absorption, Physicochemical; D002606:Charcoal / Q000737:chemistry*; D008956:Models, Chemical; D006109:Poaceae; D012211:Rhenium / Q000737:chemistry*; D013670:Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m / Q000737:chemistry*
C540010:biochar; C015428:perrhenate; D002606:Charcoal; D012211:Rhenium; D013670:Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m
Adsorption; Biochars; Perrhenate; Pertechnetate; Physicochemical properties