Abstract
Coal gasification wastewater (CGW) possess a high phenolics content, how to remove phenols is the crux of the environmental problems. In this work, we report the design and synthesis of a several highly graphitized ordered mesoporous carbons (OMCs) by carbonization of precursors from phenol and formalin. The obtained porous OMCs have uniform structures with the pore size, order degree, and surface areas being controllable by varying the synthesis conditions. In depth study of the prepared materials reveals that the OMCs carbonized at 923.15 K exhibit ordered 2D hexagonal mesoporous structures with high degree of graphitization, high surface area (590.6 m2·g−1), appropriate pore size (mean diameter about 10 nm) and large mesoporous pore volume (0.512 cm3·g−1). The prepared OMCs are applied as adsorbent for treatment of the CGW collected directly from the biochemical effluent of coal chemical enterprise in Inner Mongolia Autonomous region, China. The OMCs show excellent adsorption properties for phenol effluent with the removal efficiency of phenols being up to 92.3%. The adsorption experiment data demonstrates that the adsorption is a multi-molecular layer adsorption process, during which the physical adsorption takes place. In addition, the study of adsorption thermodynamics indicates that the adsorption process is spontaneous and endothermic. The adsorption of samples on phenol from CGW has reached an ideal level.
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