This study proposes a new process to synthesize zero-valent iron/biochar (Fe 0 -BC) by carbothermal reduction using wood waste and iron mud as raw materials under different temperature. The characterization results showed that the Fe 0 -BC synthesized at 1200ºC (Fe 0 -BC-1200) possessed favorable adsorption capacity with the specific surface area of 103.18 m 2 /g, and that the zero-valent iron (Fe 0 ) particles were uniformly dispersed 13 on the biochar surface. The removal efficiency of rhodamine B (RB) was determined 14 to evaluate the performance of the prepared Fe 0 -BC. Fe 0 -BC-1200 presented the best 15 performance on RB removal, which mainly ascribe to that more Fe 0 particles generated at higher temperature. The equilibrium adsorption capacity reached 49.93 mg/g when the initial RB concentration and the Fe 0 -BC-1200 dosage were 100 mg/L and 2g/L, respectively, and the pseudo-second-order model was suitable to fit the removal experimental data. LCMC and XRD analyses revealed that the removal mechanism included the physical adsorption of biochar and the redox reaction of Fe 0 . Moreover, copper existed in the iron mud was also reduced to Cu 0 , which was beneficial to catalyze the oxidation of iron, the degradation of RB was promoted at the same time.
This study proposes a new process to synthesize zero-valent iron/biochar (Fe0-BC) by carbothermal reduction using wood waste and iron mud as raw materials under different temperature. The characterization results showed that the Fe0-BC synthesized at 1200ºC (Fe0-BC-1200) possessed favorable adsorption capacity with the specific surface area of 103.18 m2/g, and that the zero-valent iron (Fe0) particles were uniformly dispersed on the biochar surface. The removal efficiency of rhodamine B (RB) was determined to evaluate the performance of the prepared Fe0-BC. Fe0-BC-1200 presented the best performance on RB removal, which mainly ascribe to that more Fe0 particles generated at higher temperature. The equilibrium adsorption capacity reached 49.93 mg/g when the initial RB concentration and the Fe0-BC-1200 dosage were 100 mg/L and 2g/L, respectively, and the pseudo-second-order model was suitable to fit the removal experimental data. LCMC and XRD analyses revealed that the removal mechanism included the physical adsorption of biochar and the redox reaction of Fe0. Moreover, copper existed in the iron mud was also reduced to Cu0, which was beneficial to catalyze the oxidation of iron, the degradation of RB was promoted at the same time.
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