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Corn stover–derived biochar for efficient adsorption of oxytetracycline from wastewater

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Biochar conversion from corn stover was evaluated under various process conditions, and the absorption capacity of biochar was investigated for the removal of oxytetracycline in wastewater. Biochar was prepared at lower carbonization temperatures (200–500 °C) and was used in three different concentrations of chemical oxygen wastewater. The results showed that the biochar prepared at the temperature range of 200–500 °C had a faster sorption rate and shorter sorption equilibrium time compared to biochar produced at higher temperatures. The longest time to reach sorption equilibrium was 9 h for biochar obtained at 200 °C. However, the biochar prepared at 500 °C required only 0.5 h to reach the sorption equilibrium. The corn stover-biochar had the highest sorption capacity of 246.3 mg/g for oxytetracycline at 30 °C. The adsorption kinetics was consistent with pseudo–second-order kinetics. This study provides a theoretical basis for the conversion of corn stover into biochar as efficient sorbents.

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This work was financially supported by the Innovative Talents Promotion Plan of Ministry of Science and Technology, China (No. 2017RA2211), the Project of Promoting Talents in Liaoning Province, China (No. XLYC1802094), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31400442), and the Project of Natural Science Foundation in Liaoning Province of China (No. 20180550984).

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  1. College of Engineering, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, 110866, China

    Min Zhang, Qingyu Liu, Shiyan Gu & Ling Zhao

  2. Biochar Engineering & Technology Research Center, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, 110866, China

    Jun Meng

  3. Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Mold (Zhengzhou University), Ministry of Education, National Engineering Research Center for Advanced Polymer Processing Technology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China

    Mengyao Dong

  4. School of Material Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, 212003, China

    Jiaoxia Zhang

  5. College of Materials Science and Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China

    Hua Hou

  6. Integrated Composites Laboratory (ICL), Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, USA

    Zhanhu Guo

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Zhang, M., Meng, J., Liu, Q. et al. Corn stover–derived biochar for efficient adsorption of oxytetracycline from wastewater. Journal of Materials Research 34, 3050–3060 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2019.198

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