Activated carbon adsorption of PAHs from vegetable oil used in soil remediation
| Autor: | Peijun Li, Berndt-Michael Wilke, Kassem Alef, Zongqiang Gong |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Langmuir
Environmental Engineering Environmental remediation Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Industrial Waste chemistry.chemical_element Adsorption polycyclic compounds medicine Plant Oils Soil Pollutants Environmental Chemistry Freundlich equation Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Waste Management and Disposal Environmental Restoration and Remediation chemistry.chemical_classification Waste management Chemistry Pollution Carbon Vegetable oil Hydrocarbon Environmental chemistry Activated carbon medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Hazardous Materials. 143:372-378 |
| ISSN: | 0304-3894 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2006.09.037 |
| Popis: | Vegetable oil has been proven to be advantageous as a non-toxic, cost-effective and biodegradable solvent to extract polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from contaminated soils for remediation purposes. The resulting vegetable oil contained PAHs and therefore required a method for subsequent removal of extracted PAHs and reuse of the oil in remediation processes. In this paper, activated carbon adsorption of PAHs from vegetable oil used in soil remediation was assessed to ascertain PAH contaminated oil regeneration. Vegetable oils, originating from lab scale remediation, with different PAH concentrations were examined to study the adsorption of PAHs on activated carbon. Batch adsorption tests were performed by shaking oil-activated carbon mixtures in flasks. Equilibrium data were fitted with the Langmuir and Freundlich isothermal models. Studies were also carried out using columns packed with activated carbon. In addition, the effects of initial PAH concentration and activated carbon dosage on sorption capacities were investigated. Results clearly revealed the effectiveness of using activated carbon as an adsorbent to remove PAHs from the vegetable oil. Adsorption equilibrium of PAHs on activated carbon from the vegetable oil was successfully evaluated by the Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms. The initial PAH concentrations and carbon dosage affected adsorption significantly. The results indicate that the reuse of vegetable oil was feasible. |
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