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Preparation of Activated Carbon from Sugarcane Bagasse and Removal of Color and Organic Matter from Real Textile Wastewater

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Textile wastewaters (TW) contain contaminants such as organic matter, dyes, sulfate, and many salts. Many methods have been used to remove these pollutants and to reduce the environmental impact associated with their release into water bodies. In the present study, physically activated carbon made of sugar cane bagasse was used as an adsorbent to remove color and chemical oxygen demand (COD) from textile effluent. The experiments were carried out with a real effluent from a textile jeans laundry. The effect of the variables, such as adsorbent amount, pH, contact time, temperature, and particle size of the adsorbent, was tested. The most efficient results were obtained for the adsorbent mass of 0.25 g, pH 6.0, contact time of 60 min, and adsorbent size smaller than 0.42 mm. The adsorbent performed well for color removal of textile effluent, removing up to 93% and 55% of color and COD, respectively. The Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface area and total pore volume were 188.2 m2 g−1 and 0.13 cm3 g−1, respectively, and average sizes of pore diameter of 2.7 nm and 3.6 nm. This indicates the ability of agro-industrial waste for application in the process of textile wastewater treatment.

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Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge the funding agencies, FACEPE (PRONEX Proc. APQ-0603-3.07/14), Núcleo de Química Analítica Avançada de Pernambuco, NUQAAPE (FACEPE grants APQ-0346-1.06/14), and Instituto Nacional de Tecnologias Analíticas Avançadas, INCTAA (CNPq grant 465768/2014-8 and FAPESP grant 2014/50951-4), for supporting this work. This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior-Brasil (CAPES), finance code 001. Research fellowships (CNPq, 307397/2018-1 and 304862/2018-5) are also gratefully acknowledged. We are also thankful to professor Fabrício Motteran from the Laboratory of Environmental Sanitation, Department of Civil Engineering, Federal University of Pernambuco, for his assistance with Langmuir and Freundlich models. The English version was revised by Sidney Pratt, Canadian, BA, MAT (The Johns Hopkins University), RSAdip (TEFL) (Cambridge University).

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    Wiviane Kássia Oliveira Correia da Costa, Nattany Tayany Gomes de Paula & Ana Paula Silveira Paim

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A low-cost bio-sorbent was fabricated from agro-industrial waste sugarcane bagasse

The experiments were carried out with a real effluent from a textile jeans laundry

A color reducing up to 93% was obtained under the optimum adsorption conditions

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da Costa, W.K.O.C., Gavazza, S., Duarte, M.M.M.B. et al. Preparation of Activated Carbon from Sugarcane Bagasse and Removal of Color and Organic Matter from Real Textile Wastewater. Water Air Soil Pollut 232, 358 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-021-05306-w

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