Remediation of cadmium and lead polluted soil using thiol-modified biochar

Fan, Jiajun, Cai, Chao, Chi, Haifeng, Reid, Brian J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9613-979X, Coulon, Frédéric, Zhang, Youchi and Hou, Yanwei (2020) Remediation of cadmium and lead polluted soil using thiol-modified biochar. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 388. ISSN 0304-3894

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Abstract

Thiol-modified rice straw biochar (RS) was prepared by an esterification reaction with β-mercaptoethanol and used for the remediation of Cd and Pb polluted soils. Modified biochar was characterized through elemental analysis, BET analysis, FE-SEM, FT-IR and XPS. These analytical results revealed that thiol groups were successfully grafted onto the surface of the biochar and were involved in metal ion complexation. Batch sorption experiments indicated that Cd2+ and Pb2+ sorption onto RS described well by a pseudo second order kinetic model and a Langmuir isotherm. The maximum adsorption capacities for Cd2+ and Pb2+, in the single-metal systems, were 45.1 and 61.4 mg g-1, respectively. In the binary-metal systems, RS selectively adsorbed Cd2+ over Pb2+. Cd2+ and Pb2+ were removed mainly through surface complexation. In the soil incubation experiments (28 days), RS reduced the available Cd by 34.8-39.2%; while, RS reduced the available Pb by 8.6%-11.1%. This research demonstrates RS as a potentially effective amendment for the remediation of heavy metal polluted soils.

Item Type: Article
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Biology
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Geosciences
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Date Deposited: 09 Jan 2020 04:21
Last Modified: 22 Oct 2022 05:41
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/73564
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.122037

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