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Uranium is the important nuclear fuel and its effective adsorption using low-cost materials is meaningful to environmental protection and sustainable development of nuclear energy. In this study, green and economical reed straw-derived biochar (RBC) was prepared by hydrothermal carbonization method using low-cost reed straw as feedstocks and citric acid as catalysts for uranium(VI) removal. RBC possessed larger pores and more oxygen-containing functional groups, providing more abundant adsorption sites for uranyl ions. RBC adsorbed uranium pH-dependently, spontaneously and endothermically, and pseudo-second-order kinetics and the Langmuir model could adequately describe the adsorption process. This work highlighted a feasible synthesis strategy of biochar for radioactive contaminants removal.
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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21966005, 22166001, 22066002) and Open Project Foundation of Nuclear Technology Application Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center (East China University of Technology) (HJSJYB2020-5).
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Liu, Y., Wang, Y., Xia, H. et al. Low-cost reed straw-derived biochar prepared by hydrothermal carbonization for the removal of uranium(VI) from aqueous solution. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 331, 3915–3925 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-022-08421-y
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