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The purpose of this study was to develop a carbon material with excellent adsorption performance of uranium, which could effectively reduce the risk of damage to the water environment caused by pig manure (PM) and uranium-containing wastewater. Three kinds of biochars (PMBC-300, PMBC-500, and PMBC-700) were successfully constructed with pig manure as the precursor at different carbonization temperature (300, 500, and 700 °C) for removing uranium from the solution. Meanwhile, various adsorption isotherm and kinetics models were applied to deeply discuss the adsorption performances and mechanism of pig manure-derived biochar for uranium. The results showed that the surface charge and active sites of PMBC were the important parameters to affect the removal of uranium. The adsorption capacity of PMBC-500 reached 376.5 mg/g (m/V = 0.1 g/L, pH = 4, and T = 298 K) due to the abundant active sites (phosphate, carbonate, and oxygen-containing groups), which was much higher than that of other reported carbon materials. Therefore, it could be considered that the conversion of PM into PMBC was a feasible method, which would effectively remove uranium from the solution and reduce the pollution of PM to the environment.
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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21902130 and 21976147), Sichuan Science and Technology Program (No. 2020YFS0345, 2020YFG0467, 2020JDRC0099, 2020ZDZX0012 and 2020JDJQ0009), the Presidential Funding of CAEP (YZJJLX2019007), the Career Development Funding of CAEP (2402001), Research Fund of SWUST for PhD (No.17zx7135, 18zx7149 and 19zx7129), and the Sichuan’s Training Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Undergraduate (No. S202110619061 and S202110619086).
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Jun Liao: methodology, investigation, writing—original draft; Xiaoshan He: methodology, data curation, investigation; Yong Zhang: resources, writing—reviewing and editing, supervision; Lin Zhang: data curation, investigation; Zhibing He: conceptualization, writing—reviewing and editing.
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1. Pig manure (PM) was converted into biochar via a simple treatment.
2. The pollution of nutrients in PM to water system was reduced.
3. PMBC-500 was used for uranium removal with high adsorption affinity.
4. The adsorption capacity of uranium on the PMBC-500 was 376.5 mg/g.
5. The uranium removal mechanism of PMBC-500 was researched.
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Liao, J., He, X., Zhang, Y. et al. Constructing a novel carbon material for efficient separation of uranium(VI) from solution. Biomass Conv. Bioref. 14, 8433–8445 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-022-02856-9
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