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Adsorption of Pb2+ by Activated Carbon Produced by Microwave Assisted K2CO3 Activation of Leaf Sheath Fibre of Date Palm

Version 1 : Received: 4 September 2023 / Approved: 5 September 2023 / Online: 6 September 2023 (05:06:51 CEST)

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Aloud, S.S.; Hameed, B.H.; Yusop, M.F.M.; Alharbi, H.A.; Giesy, J.P.; Alotaibi, K.D. Adsorption of Pb2+ by Activated Carbon Produced by Microwave-Assisted K2CO3 Activation of Date Palm Leaf Sheath Fibres. Water 2023, 15, 3905. Aloud, S.S.; Hameed, B.H.; Yusop, M.F.M.; Alharbi, H.A.; Giesy, J.P.; Alotaibi, K.D. Adsorption of Pb2+ by Activated Carbon Produced by Microwave-Assisted K2CO3 Activation of Date Palm Leaf Sheath Fibres. Water 2023, 15, 3905.

Abstract

Date palm trees generate large amounts of various types of waste, including leaf sheath fibers which can be used as a low-cost, precursor for production of biochar including activated carbon (AC) that can be employed for adsorption of contaminants. In the current study, activated carbon was made from leaf sheath fibers of date palm (LSDPFAC) by use of chemical activation with K2CO3, combined with microwave irradiation, characterized and evaluated for its adsorptive capacity of lead ions (Pb2+). The Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface area, Langmuir surface area, total pore volume and average pore diameter of LSDPFAC were 560.20 m2/g, 744.31 m2/g, 0.29 cm3/g and 2.47 nm respectively. When the initial concentrations of Pb2+ were increased from 1 to 10 mg/L, Pb2+ adsorption increased from 0.97 to 8.76 mg/g, dry mass (dm) while the percent of Pb2+ removed decreased from 96.70 to 87.60%. The greatest removal of Pb2+ occurred at pH 13 with adsorption capacity of 9.15 mg/g, dm. Results of isotherm and kinetic studies demonstrated that adsorption of Pb2+ onto LSDPFAC was best described by the Freundlich isotherm and pseudo-second order (PSO) models. Langmuir monolayer adsorption capacity, Qm was 14.10 mg/g. Thermodynamic parameters of H°, S°, G° and Ea were 6.39 kJ/mol, 0.12 kJ/mol.K, -31.28 kJ/mol and 15.90 kJ/mol, respectively, which demonstrated that adsorption of Pb2+ by LSDPFAC was endothermic, spontaneous and governed by physisorption.

Keywords

activated carbon; metal ions; Phoenix dactylifera L.; isotherm; kinetic; microwave irradiation; biochar

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science

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