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Recycling of biogenic hydroxyapatite (HAP) for cleaning of lead from wastewater: performance and mechanism

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In China, the utilization and recycling of chicken waste have become a significant environmental issue. In this study, we investigate the efficacy of biogenic hydroxyapatite (HAP) materials, recycled from chicken waste, for Pb(II) sequestration from wastewater. The results from batch experiments indicate that biogenic HAP could effectively remove Pb(II) from an aqueous solution. The maximum removal efficiency of Pb (more than > 99%) was observed under the following operational conditions: initial pH of 3.0, initial Pb(II) concentrations of 208 mg/L, and 1 g/L of HAP adsorbents. The presence of coexisting divalent ions, including Ca2+, Mg2+, and Mn2+, had no significant influence on Pb(II) removal. Spectroscopic analysis suggests that the dissolution-precipitation mechanism was mainly responsible for Pb(II) sequestration under acidic conditions (pH ≤ 3.0). Our findings indicate that biogenic HAP recycled from biowaste can be used as an efficient adsorbent for cleaning Pb(II) from wastewater.

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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51908304, 41907111), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province for Major Basic Research (ZR2018ZC2364), the Shandong Province Natural Science Foundation (ZR2018BEE037), the Key Research and Development Plan of Shandong Province (Grant No. 2018GSF117030), and the Internal Research Grant (No. RG50/2017-2018R), and Dean’s Research Fund (Nos. IRS13, ROP10, RMP5) of The Education University of Hong Kong.

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    Huawei Wang, Zijuan Lv, Ya-nan Wang & Yingjie Sun

  2. Department of Science and Environmental Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, New Territories, 999077, Hong Kong, China

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Huawei Wang: conceptualization, methodology, writing—review and editing; Zijuan Lv: conducted experiments; Ya-nan Wang: funding acquisition, writing—original draft; Yingjie Sun: supervision, writing—review and editing; Yiu Fai Tsang: funding acquisition, writing—review and editing.

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Wang, H., Lv, Z., Wang, Yn. et al. Recycling of biogenic hydroxyapatite (HAP) for cleaning of lead from wastewater: performance and mechanism. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 29509–29520 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-10855-4

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