Effect of biomass addition on the surface and adsorption characterization of carbon-based adsorbents from sewage sludge.

Changzi Wu, Min Song, Baosheng Jin, Yimin Wu, Yaji Huang

Key Laboratory of Energy Thermal Conversion and Control, Ministry of Education, School of Energy and Environment, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China.

Journal of environmental sciences (China) 2013 Feb 1

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Sewage sludge with the additive corn cob was used as prescusor to prepare sludge-based carbon adsorbents by pyrolysis method. And then, the carbonizated products were activated with potassium hydroxide. The mixing ratio of the corn cob to sewage sludge was investigated. The surface area and pore size distribution, elemental composition, surface chemistry structure and the surface physical morphology were determined and compared. The results demonstrated that the addition of corn cob into the sewage sludge sample could effectively improve the surface area (from 287 to 591 m2/g) and the microporosity (from 5% to 48%) of the carbon based adsorbent, thus enhancing the adsorption behavior. The sulfur dioxide adsorption capacity was measured according to breakthrough test. It was found that the sulfur dioxide adsorption capacity of the adsorbents was obviously enhanced after the addition of the corn cob. It is presumed that not only highly porous adsorbents, but also a high metallic content of these materials are required to achieve good performances.

Citation

Changzi Wu, Min Song, Baosheng Jin, Yimin Wu, Yaji Huang. Effect of biomass addition on the surface and adsorption characterization of carbon-based adsorbents from sewage sludge. Journal of environmental sciences (China). 2013 Feb 1;25(2):405-12