Abstract
AbstractRed mud (RM) and non‐woody biomass are both underutilized resources for renewable composite materials, which could be used in environmental decontamination processes. This study aims to investigate the efficacy of co‐pyrolyzing non‐woody biomass with RM to produce a magnetic biochar composite. When pyrolyzed, RM is reduced to magnetic iron while the non‐woody biochar is responsible for the adsorption of organic compounds. Ibuprofen, acetaminophen, methyl orange, and methylene blue were used as test compounds to investigate the overall adsorptive capacity of the composite and to determine the possible adsorption mechanisms of biochar produced from RM pyrolyzed with switch grass, phragmites, rice husk, and miscanthus. The composite produced from a 1 to 1 mixture of RM and miscanthus showed the highest adsorption capacity with 13.8 and 8.34 mg/g of ibuprofen and acetaminophen adsorbed, respectively, which is attributed to its greater ‐interactions as a result of lower surface oxygen sites. Different ratios of RM to biomass were also tested for the production of the miscanthus composite, where it was found that the 1:2 ratio showed the best overall adsorption with 25.9 mg/g removal of acetaminophen, surpassing the miscanthus biochar's at 17.9 mg/g.
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