改性活性炭对水溶液中双酚-A的吸附研究

采用HNO3、NaOH及高温N2对商用炭WV A1100进行表面改性处理,并利用BET、XPS、pH.及Boehm方法对活性炭进行物化表征.结果表明,HNO3改性明显降低了W20的比表面积,增加了其表面酸性含氧官能团数量,使等电点(pHpae)由4.95降至1.50;高温N2和NaOH改性处理后炭表面化学性质变化与HNO3氧化基本相反,pHp.升至近中性,其中高温N2处理降低了43.81%的表面积.另外,活性炭对双酚-A(BPA)的吸附实验结果表明,吸附体系中溶解氧的存在不会促使BPA在W20表面发生酚氧自由基氧化耦合,并且原炭W20、高温N2和NaOH改性处理后炭对BPA的吸附等温线结果满足Langmiur模型,而HNO3改性炭的吸附行为更符合Freundlich模型,其中高温N2改性炭表现出最好的吸附BPA能力,饱和吸附量值达到了526.32mg/g,是能力最差炭(HNO3改性)的3倍,结合表征结果分析得出,在吸附体系中炭表面的憎水性和静电荷密度,是控制分子态BPA吸附过程的主要因素,即吸附主要遵循π-π理论.

Study on Adsorption of Bisphenol A from Aqueous Solution on Modified Activated Carbons

A commercial activated carbon (WV A1100) was modified with nitric acid, sodium hydroxide and thermal treatment in an atmosphere of N2. Several techniques were used to characterize the physicochemical properties of these materials including BET, XPS, pH(PZC) and Boehm titration. The results indicated that the specific surface area of the W20 remarkably decreased after oxidized by nitric acid. But the amount of surface acidic oxygen-containing functional groups of the oxidized sample increased compared to the W20 and resulting in the points of zero charge (pH(PZC)) changed from 4.95 to 1.50. The changes of surface chemical properties of thermal treatment and sodium hydroxide treatment were opposite to the oxidized sample, as a result, the pH(PZC) of them was changed to near pH 7.0. However, a 43.81% surface area of W20 was also diminished by thermal treatment. Furthermore, the results of BPA adsorption indicated that the oligomerization of BPA on the surface of activated carbon could not be formed through oxidative coupling reactions in the presence of dissolved oxygen. And the data of BPA adsorption on original sample, thermal and sodium hydroxide treatment sample were fitted to the Langmuir isotherm model well. Whereas the Freundlich isotherm model described the adsorptive behavior of the oxidized sample better. In addition, the adsorption capacity of thermal treatment sample was the highest and its saturated adsorption capacity reached 526.32 mg/g. The value was three times higher than that of the oxidized sample. Combined with the results of characterization, it was found that the hydrophobic nature and zero of net charge density of carbon surface were the main factors to affect the BPA adsorption on activated carbons and the adsorption is based on pi-pi theory.