Nature Environment and Pollution Technology

Guoting Li ¹, Yanmin Feng ¹, Xiaoqi Chai ¹, Xiaoshuang He ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450011, CN

Abstract

Fly ash, an industrial waste from thermal power plants, was used for the adsorptive removal of 1,4-benzoquinone, one of the oxidation intermediates generated in AOPs. Effect of fly ash dosage and solution pH was investigated. The highest 1,4-benzoquinone uptake occurred at pH 7.0. Neutral and alkaline conditions were more favourable for the adsorptive removal of 1,4-benzoquinone. Isotherm data at 288, 298 and 308 K were simulated by Langmuir, Freundlich, Temkin, Redlich-Peterson, Koble-Corrigan and Dubinin- Radushkevich isotherm models. Both the Koble-Corrigan and Dubinin-Radushkevich isotherms can predict equilibrium adsorption behaviour better at different reaction temperatures. The reaction enthalpy was 29.42 kJ/mol and the entropy achieved 164.52 J/mol·K. The change of Gibbs free energy achieved -19.48 kJ/mol at 298 K. The above indicates that the sorption process was spontaneous and endothermic. This also reveals that, fly ash has the potential for the adsorptive removal of 1,4-benzoquinone.

Keywords

Adsorption, 1,4-Benzoquinone, Fly Ash, Kinetic Model, Isotherm Model.

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