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Phosphoric acid pretreatment enhances the specific surface areas of biochars by generation of micropores
Abstract
Biochars are being increasingly applied in soil for carbon sequestration, fertility improvement, as well as contamination remediation. Phosphoric acid (H3PO4) pretreatment is a method for biochar modification, but the mechanism is not yet fully understood. In this work, biochars and the raw biomass were treated by H3PO4 prior to pyrolysis. Due to an acid catalysis and crosslink, the micropores of the pretreated particles were much more than those without H3PO4 pretreatment, resulting in the dramatical enhancement of specific surface areas of the pretreated particles. Crystalline cellulose (CL) exhibited a greater advantage in the formation of micropores than of amorphous lignin (LG) with H3PO4 modification. The formation mechanisms of micropores were: (a) H+ from H3PO4 contributes to micropores generation via H+ catalysis process; (b) the organic phosphate bridge protected the carbon skeleton from micropore collapse via the crosslinking of phosphate radical. The sorption capacities to carbamazepine (CBZ) and bisphenol A (BPA) increased after H3PO4 modification, which is ascribed to the large hydrophobic surface areas and more abundant micropores. Overall, H3PO4 pretreatment produced biochars with large surface area and high abundance of porous structures. Furthermore, the H3PO4 modified biochars can be applied as high adsorbing material as well as P-rich fertilizer.
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- Chu, G., Zhao, J., Huang, Y., Zhou, D., Liu, Y., Wu, M., Peng, H., Zhao, Q., Pan, B., & Steinberg, C. E. W.
- Venue
- Environmental Pollution
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-09
- Volume
- 240
- Pages
- 1-9
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- 0269-7491 (ISSN-L)
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- W2801629952
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- References
- 45
- FWCI
- 7.21
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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