Preparation of sludge biochar and its adsorption characteristics on methylene blue
Using the residual sludge from a sewage treatment plant as raw material,sludge biochar with different temperature gradients(300,500,700,750 ℃)was prepared by one-step pyrolysis under anoxic conditions,and the adsorption performance of the sludge biochar prepared with optimal pyrolysis tempera-tures on methylene blue was determined,and characterized and analyzed by BET,FTIR,and morphology methods.The results showed that the sludge biochar prepared by pyrolysis at 700 ℃ for 1 h under anoxic conditions could remove methylene blue efficiently,and the removal rate could reach 97.9%.The theoret-ical adsorption capacity of SB700 for methylene blue reached 9.87 mg/g at the reaction temperature of 35 ℃,biochar dosage of 10 g/L and adsorption equilibrium time of 12 h.The correlation coefficient of the proposed second-order kinetic model for the adsorption of methylene blue by SB700 was 0.987 8,which was higher than that of the proposed first-order kinetic model,indicating that the adsorption process was dominated by the chemical adsorption of monomolecules.