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Adsorption of volatile organic compounds onto porous clay heterostructures based on spent organobentonites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Lizhong Zhu ,
Senlin Tian  and
Yao Shi
Lizhong Zhu*
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China 310028
Senlin Tian
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China 310028
Yao Shi
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China 310028
*
*E-mail address of corresponding author: zlz@zju.edu.cn
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Abstract

Model spent cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTMAB)-bentonite, and cetyl pyridinium chloride (CPC)-bentonite used for sorbing p-nitrophenol (PNP) from wastewater, as well as virgin CTMAB-bentonite and CPC-bentonite, were employed as the starting materials to prepare porous clay heterostructures (PCHs). The BET surface areas and total pore volumes of the PCHs based on these spent and virgin organobentonites (PNP-CTMAB-PCH, CTMAB-PCH, PNP-CPC-PCH and CPC-PCH) are 661.5 m2/g and 0.25 cm3/g, 690.4 m2/g and 0.27 cm3/g, 506.3 m2/g and 0.30 cm3/g, and 525.4 m2/g and 0.30 cm3/g, respectively. These values approximate those of activated carbon (AC), at 731.4 m2/g and 0.23 cm3/g, and are much larger than those of bentonite and CTMAB-bentonite, at 60.9 m2/g and 0.12 cm3/g, and 3.7 m2/g and 0.0055 m2/g, respectively. The PCHs have slightly higher adsorption capacities for benzene and CC14 than AC at higher relative pressures despite their comparatively lower benzene and CC14 adsorption capacity at lower relative pressures. The existence of PNP in organobentonites also enhances the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) adsorption capacity of PCHs at lower adsorbate concentrations, although some adsorption capacity is lost at higher concentrations. The hydrophobicity order of the adsorbents is: CTMAB-bentonite > AC > PCHs > bentonite. The micro- to mesoporous pore sizes, superior VOC adsorption properties, thermal stability to 750°C and hydrophobicity and negligible influences of PNP on PCHs make spent PNP-containing organobentonites ideal starting materials for synthesis of PCHs and especially attractive adsorbents for VOC sorption control.

Keywords

AdsorptionOrganobentonitePorous Clay HeterostructuresVOC
Type
Research Article
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Clays and Clay Minerals , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , April 2005 , pp. 123 - 136
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Copyright © Clay Minerals Society 2005

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