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Adsorption removal of roxarsone, arsenite(III), and arsenate(V) using iron-modified sorghum straw biochar and its kinetics

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Arsenic (As) contamination in groundwater is a major problem in many countries, which causes serious health issues. In this paper, a novel method has been developed for the simultaneous removal of ROX and As(III/V) using the modified sorghum straw biochar (MSSB). The MSSB was characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared, and Brunauer–Emmet–Teller (BET) surface area. The removal performance of MSSB for ROX, arsenite [As(III)], and arsenate (As(V)) was investigated using batch experiments. At pH of 5, the arsenic concentration of 1.0 mg/L, adsorbent dose of 1.0 g/L, the maximum adsorption capacities of ROX, As(III), and As(V) were 12.4, 5.3, and 23.0 mg/g, respectively. The adsorption behaviors were fit well with the Langmuir and the pseudo-second-order rate model. The results showed that MSSB acted as a highly effective adsorbent to simultaneously remove the composite pollution system consisted of ROX and As(III/V) in aqueous solutions, providing a promising method in environmental restoration applications.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41773136 and 41703129), Innovation Talent Support Project of Liaoning (Grant No. LR2017073), the National Key Rand D Program of China (No. 2017YFD0800301), the basic research projects of Source-sink transformation of arsenic and roxarsone in sediments (XXLJ 2019007).

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    Shuyan Zang

  2. Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, 110142, China

    Yingying Zuo, Juan Wang, Mario Alberto Gomez & Lan Wei

  3. State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, 550081, China

    Xiuming Liu

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Zang, S., Zuo, Y., Wang, J. et al. Adsorption removal of roxarsone, arsenite(III), and arsenate(V) using iron-modified sorghum straw biochar and its kinetics. Acta Geochim 40, 409–418 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11631-021-00466-2

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