Abstract
In this work, corn straw (CS) based porous carbon was prepared by one-step phosphoric acid (H3PO4) low temperature activation. The impregnation ratios (H3PO4/CS, g/g) played an important role in the pore development. ACS300-1 engineered at 300 °C and the impregnation ratio of 1.0 showed the maximal specific surface area of 463.89 m2/g with total pore volume of 0.387 cm3/g, attaining a high tetracycline (TC) uptake of 227.3 mg/g. The adsorption of TC onto ACS300-1 was found tolerant with wide pH (2.0–10.0) and high ionic strength (0 – 0.5 M). The adsorption data can be fitted well by the pseudo-second order kinetic model and Langmuir isotherm model. The endothermic and spontaneous properties of the adsorption system was implied by Thermodynamic study. The findings of the current work conclude that one-step H3PO4 activation is a green and promising method for corn straw based porous carbon that may be found with great potentials in antibiotic containing wastewater treatment.
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