Acid insoluble lignin material production by chemical activation of olive endocarps for an efficient furfural adsorption-removal from aqueous solutions

The present work describes a protocol of chemical activation, with acid catalyst, of olive endocarps to obtain acid insoluble lignin-rich materials with high capacities for the adsorption of furfural present in aqueous media. During biomass activation, factors such as acid concentration, reaction ti...

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Autores: Cuevas, Manuel, Moya-López, Alberto José, Hodaifa, Gassan, Sánchez-Villasclaras, Sebastián, Mateo, Soledad
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Jaén
Repositorio:RUJA. Repositorio Institucional de la Producción Científica de la Universidad de Jaén
OAI Identifier:oai:ruja.ujaen.es:10953/6125
Acesso em linha:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.118243
https://hdl.handle.net/10953/6125
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Adsorption
Chemical activation
Bioadsobent
Olive endocarps
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Resumo:The present work describes a protocol of chemical activation, with acid catalyst, of olive endocarps to obtain acid insoluble lignin-rich materials with high capacities for the adsorption of furfural present in aqueous media. During biomass activation, factors such as acid concentration, reaction time and temperature, solid/liquid ratio and the presence of water extractives strongly affected both the surface characteristics of the treated bioadsorbents and their capacities for furfural retention (percentage increase close to 600% with respect to the crude biomass). Once a treated solid with good adsorbent properties was obtained, the optimal conditions for adsorption were found: stirring speed 80 rpm, temperature 303 K and adsorbent load 7.5 g solid/50 cm3. Kinetic study indicated the pseudo-second order model provided the best fit of the experimental data. At 303 K, the equilibrium adsorption capacities values ranged from 2.27 mg g−1 to 29.29 mg g−1, for initial furfural concentrations between 0.49 gdm−3 and 12.88 gdm−3. Freundlich model presented the best isotherm (R2 = 0.996 and SE = 4.7%) providing and values of 0.115 (mg g−1) (mg dm−3)− and 0.610, respectively. Since physical interactions predominate in the adsorption of furfural on chemically activated olive endocarps, the furfural removal process could have occurred reversibly on the heterogeneous surface of the bioadsorbents.