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Ferrihydrite-loaded water hyacinth-derived biochar for efficient removal of glyphosate from aqueous solution

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Ferrihydrite-loaded water hyacinth-derived biochar (FH/WHBC) was prepared by in-situ precipitation method to treat glyphosate-containing wastewater. The adsorption properties and mechanism, and actual application potential were deeply studied. Results showed that the adsorption performance of FH/WHBC was closely related with the precipitation pH condition, and the adsorbent prepared at pH 5.0 possessed the highest adsorption capacity of 116.8 mg/g for glyphosate. The isothermal and kinetic experiments showed that the adsorption of glyphosate was consistent with Langmuir model, and the adsorption process was rapid and could be achieved within 30 min. The prepared FH/WHBC was more suitable for application under high acidity environment, and could maintain the great adsorption performances in the presence of most co-existing ions. Besides, it also possessed a good regenerability. Under dynamic condition, the adsorption performance of FH/WHBC was not affected even at high flow rate and high glyphosate concentration. Furthermore, the FH/WHBC can keep excellent removal efficiency for glyphosate in wastewater treatment, and the concentration of glyphosate can be reduced to 0.06 mg·L-1, which was lower than the groundwater quality of class II mandated in China. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) characterization indicated that the adsorption of glyphosate on FH/WHBC was mainly accomplished through electrostatic adsorption and the formation of inner-sphere complexes. In brief, the prepared sorbent FH/WHBC was expected to be used in the treatment of industrial glyphosate wastewater.

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The work is funded by National Key Research and Development Project (No. 2019YFC1905803), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52200201), Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (No. 2022CFB698), the Innovative Team program of Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (No. 2021CFA032), the Application foundation project of Wuhan Science and Technology Bureau (No. 2020020601012276), the Program for Excellent Young Scientific and Technological Innovation Team of Hubei Provincial Department of Education, China (No. T201506), and the open funding of Hubei Three Gorges Laboratory (No. SC213001).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Novel Biomass-Based Environmental and Energy Materials in Petroleum and Chemical Industry, Hubei Novel Reactor & Green Chemical Technology Key Laboratory, Key Laboratory for Green Chemical Process of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, No. 693 Xiongchu Avenue, Hongshan District, Wuhan, 430074, Hubei, China

    Wenchao Meng, Xiaodi Li, Junxia Yu, Chunqiao Xiao & Ruan Chi

  2. Wuhan Univ. (Zhaoqing) GD, HK and MO Environ Technol Research INST, Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China

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  3. Hubei Three gorges Laboratory, Yichang, Hubei, China

    Ruan Chi

  4. Hubei Fuxing Environmental Protection Engineering Co. LTD, Hanchuan, Hubei, China

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Wenchao Meng: methodology, investigation, writing—original draft, formal analysis, editing; Xiaodi Li: software, writing—review and editing, data curation; Junxia Yu: writing—review and editing; Chunqiao Xiao: conceptualization; Haobo Hou: investigation; Ruan Chi: methodology, resources; Guoqing Feng: conceptualization, resources.

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Meng, W., Li, X., Yu, J. et al. Ferrihydrite-loaded water hyacinth-derived biochar for efficient removal of glyphosate from aqueous solution. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 57410–57422 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-26612-2

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