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Trimethylamine Adsorption Mechanism on Activated Carbon and Removal in Water and Oyster Proteolytic Solution

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In this study, seven coal-based activated carbons (ACs) were adopted to remove trimethylamine (TMA) in an aqueous solution as environmentally friendly and harmless adsorbents. The results showed that columnar AC (CAC) had a clear scale and honeycomb structures with few fragments and micropores, contributing to superior TMA removal capacity compared to granular AC (GAC) (71.67% for 6.0 mm CAC and 69.92% for 40 – 60 mesh GAC). In addition, the process of adsorption was accompanied by desorption, and the recommended absorbed time was 120 – 180 min. The short time to achieve equilibrium indicated that adsorption was kinetically controlled, and pseudo-second-order kinetics was more appropriate than pseudo-first-order kinetics in explaining the adsorption mechanism in both water and oyster enzymatic hydrolysate. The intraparticle diffusion model presented that the adsorption processes could be divided into three steps for GAC and two steps for CAC. The adsorption processes were consistent with the Freundlich model, indicating the existence of physisorption and chemisorption as multilayer adsorption. The results indicated that AC, especially CAC, has great potential for TMA elimination in aquatic product processing.

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Acknowledgements

The experimental apparatus was provided by the Equipment Public Service Center, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Thanks to Dr. Yongli Gao in the operation of equipment.

This study was supported by grants from the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2018YFC0311202), the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province (No. 2020B1111030004), the Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou, China (Nos. 2018 04010364 and 201804010321), the Key Special Project for Introduced Talents Team of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) (No. GML2019ZD0406), the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2018YFC0311202), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China (Nos. 2018A030 313088, 2018A030313626) and the Academician Workstation Foundation for Young Scientists of Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Branch (No. 20180313).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-Resource and Ecology/Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Meteria Medica, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, China

    Deke Chen, Peng Wan, Bingna Cai, Ziqing Ye, Hua Chen, Huili Sun & Jianyu Pan

  2. Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, 511458, China

    Jianyu Pan

  3. Innovation Academy of South China Sea Ecology and Environmental Engineering (ISEE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510000, China

    Jianyu Pan

  4. School of Environment and Chemical Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan, 528000, China

    Xin Chen

  5. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Ziqing Ye

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Chen, D., Wan, P., Cai, B. et al. Trimethylamine Adsorption Mechanism on Activated Carbon and Removal in Water and Oyster Proteolytic Solution. J. Ocean Univ. China 20, 1578–1586 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11802-021-4813-1

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