ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Polyethyleneimine-Modified Garden Waste
Biochar: Preparation and Its Application
for Aqueous Cr(Ⅵ) Adsorption
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School of Water Conservancy, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450046, PR China
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Henan Key Laboratory of Water Resources Conservation and Intensive Utilization in the Yellow River Basin,
Zhengzhou, 450046, PR China
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School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power,
Zhengzhou, 450046, PR China
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Henan Vocational College of Water Conservancy and Environment, Zhengzhou 450008, PR China
Submission date: 2023-09-25
Final revision date: 2023-12-08
Acceptance date: 2024-05-12
Online publication date: 2025-05-05
Corresponding author
Jingxi Tie
North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, No.36 North ring road, 450011, zhengzhou, China
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ABSTRACT
Garden Waste (GW) and Polyethyleneimine were used as source materials to create
polyethyleneimine-modified garden waste biochar (PGWBC). The composite was employed as an
adsorbent in both static and dynamic Cr(VI) adsorption experiments after being evaluated using N2
adsorption-desorption and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The material characterization
results indicated that PGWBC was a mesoporous material that contained mainly narrow slit mesopores.
The static adsorption data indicated that Cr(VI) adsorption by PGWBC was a pH-dependent process,
a rise in pH from 2 to 9 resulting in a decrease in Cr(VI) adsorption from 44.6 mg/g to 3.8 mg/g. The
adsorption process was endothermic and spontaneous, as characterized by the pseudo-second-order
model and the Langmuir equation, the maximum Cr(Ⅵ) uptake was 56.1 mg/g in 308 K. The dynamic
adsorption revealed that increasing the flow rate impaired Cr(VI) adsorption, and the Thomas model
was more suited to represent Cr(VI) adsorption by PGWBC than the Yoon-Nelson model.