Novel and High-Performance Magnetic Carbon Composite Prepared from Waste Hydrochar for Dye Removal

作者:Zhu Xiangdong; Liu Yuchen; Zhou Chao; Zhang Shicheng*; Chen Jianmin
来源:ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 2014, 2(4): 969-977.
DOI:10.1021/sc400547y

摘要

In recent years, more and more attention has been paid to the hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of waste biomass for the production of bio-oil and hydrochar (a solid residue from HTL process). However, hydrochar possesses limited porosity and surface area, hindering its environmental application. In the present work, to promote the development of a sustainable application of waste biomass, waste hydrochar was activated and modified to a novel magnetic carbon composite, which exhibited high performance for dye removal from aqueous solutions. The composite possessed a saturation magnetization of 38.5 emu g(-1) at room temperature and could be facilely attracted from an aqueous solution by an external magnet. The as-prepared composite exhibited a superior malachite green (MG) adsorption capacity (476 mg g(-1)), which was much higher than the known magnetic adsorbents. Our results suggested that the waste hydrochar could be efficiently transformed to a high-performance sustainable material for dye removal.