Development of Novel Wheat Waste-Derived Biochar and Its Potential in Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment
Turarbek A.M. Abilkanova F.Z. Uali A.S.
28 March 2025E.A. Buketov Karaganda University Publish house
Eurasian Journal of Chemistry
2025#30Issue 176 - 88 pp.
The rising concentration of pharmaceuticals in wastewater presents significant environmental and health chal-lenges. This study aims to develop an iron (III)-activated carbon-enriched material derived from local agricultural plant waste to effectively remove pharmaceutical contaminants. The research investigates the material’s composition, structure, morphology, and adsorption capacity of the material, focusing on wheat waste-derived biochar. The synthesis process includes an initial carbonization, chemical modification with FeCl3 using the wet impregnation method, and a second carbonization and washing step. The resulting carbona-ceous material was characterized using the CHNS elemental analyzer, FTIR, XRD and SEM-EDX spectroscopic techniques. The results indicate the formation of a carbonaceous material with a carbon content of 77.09 %, enriched with a highly crystalline graphite phase and a porous structure containing iron (II, III) ox-ides. Notably, this sorbent efficiently reduced the ibuprofen concentration, with a sorption capacity of 433 mg•g⁻¹. Among the pseudo-first-order (PFO), pseudo-second-order (PSO), intraparticle diffusion and Elovich models used to describe the adsorption kinetics, the PSO model (types 1-2) fits successfully, indicat-ing chemisorption-controlled kinetics. This study highlights the potential for converting agricultural waste into a carbonaceous material with improved structure and morphology, and demonstrates its high efficacy in purifying water from pharmaceutical contaminants.
activated carbons , adsorption , biochar , carbonization , ibuprofen , iron oxides , kinetic models , pseudo-second-order kinetic model , waste wheat
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