Adsorption Mechanism of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate on Granular Activated Carbon in Wastewater

Author

Qu, Yan ; Zhang, Chaojie ; Zhou, Qi ; Li, Qiuju ; Wang, Huaichen ; Ni, Haiyan ; Liu, Wenjing

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, Tongji Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2010

fDate

18-20 June 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) has increasingly attracted global concerns in recent years and has also been proposed as the candidates of persistent organic pollutants due to their world-wide distribution, environmental persistence and bioaccumulation potential. The adsorption mechanism of PFOS from aqueous solutions onto granular activated carbon (GAC) was investigated. The adsorption reaction obtains equilibrium within 180 min and the maximum PFOS removal tended to be 99%. And the results of regression to the experimental data show that t the adsorption of PFOA onto the GAC was mainly governed by particle diffusion.

Keywords

activated carbon; adsorption; diffusion; granular materials; organic compounds; wastewater treatment; water pollution control; C; PFOS adsorption mechanism; PFOS removal; aqueous solutions; bioaccumulation potential; granular activated carbon; particle diffusion; perfluorooctane sulfonate; persistent organic pollutants; wastewater; Arctic; Carbon dioxide; Chemical analysis; Educational institutions; Humans; Performance analysis; Pollution; Sediments; Solids; Wastewater treatment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE), 2010 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

ISSN

2151-7614

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4712-1

Electronic_ISBN

2151-7614

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2010.5517682

Filename

5517682