Application of impregnated biocarbon produced from soybean hulls in dye decolorization
2021
Waste soybean hulls (WSH) were investigated as a Fe-support in two forms: raw
and carbonized (i.e. biocarbon, BC), as possible value-added materials.
Fe-impregnation was implemented in order to produce heterogeneous Fenton
catalysts for Reactive Blue 4 dye degradation. Materials characterization
demonstrated a rise in the specific surface area due to decomposition of WSH
constituents during carbonization (to obtain BC) and thermal activation (to
obtain Fe-WSH and Fe-BC), thus producing catalysts with high mesoporosity
and hematite as the active site for Fenton reaction. Among the investigated
materials, Fe-WSH showed the greatest ability for •OH production in acidic
medium. Next, the heterogeneous Fenton process was optimized by using
response surface methodology, which resulted in selection of the following
reaction conditions: 3 mM H2O2, 100 mg Fe-WSH, reaction time of 180 min, at
a constant pH 3, RB4 concentration of 50 mg dm-3 and at room temperature.
The achieved dye removal and mineralization were 85.7 and 66.8 %,
respectively, while the catalyst showed high stability and the reaction
intermediates formed during the oxidation process had a low inhibitory
effect on Vibrio fischeri bacteria.
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