Sorption treatment of phenol-containing wastewater with silicon and carbon-containing materials
Abstract
The paper was studied phenol sorption from aqueous solutions by silicon- and carbon-containing materials obtained from rice husk and straw under different conditions.. It is shown that the phenol sorption activity for samples obtained by pyrolysis of rice husk under industrial conditions was 39%. Silicon- and carbon-containing materials synthesized by oxidative roasting under laboratory conditions do not absorb phenol. The pyrolysis products have a complex structure and are in an amorphous and amorphous-crystalline state. Kinetic studies have shown that phenol sorption is limited by two stages: on the one hand, by internal and external diffusion, and on the other hand, by chemical interaction with surface active groups of samples. Thermodynamic parameters indicate that the process is spontaneous (ΔG298 < 0) and exothermic (ΔH < 0), the mobility of the phenol molecule decreases during adsorption (ΔS < 0). Processing of phenol adsorption isotherms using Freundlich, Dubinin-Astakhov, Langmuir and BET models showed that sorption is determined by non-covalent adsorbate-adsorbent interactions. It was found that with increasing pH, the absorption capacity decreases, which is due to the form of phenol (as a molecule or phenolate ion). The low degree of phenol desorption by distilled water and sodium hydroxide solution confirms the strong interaction of phenol with the surface of materials, which depends on the contact time and the solution environment.
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