Simple and Eco-Friendly Route from Agro-Food Waste to Water Pollutants Removal
The current study reflects the demand to mitigate the environmental issues caused by the waste from the agriculture and food industry. The crops that do not meet the supply chain requirements and waste from their processing are overfilling landfills. The mentioned wastes contain cellulose, which is...
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| author | Alena Opálková Šišková Tomáš Dvorák Tímea Šimonová Baranyaiová Erik Šimon Anita Eckstein Andicsová Helena Švajdlenková Andrej Opálek Peter Krížik Martin Nosko |
| author_facet | Alena Opálková Šišková Tomáš Dvorák Tímea Šimonová Baranyaiová Erik Šimon Anita Eckstein Andicsová Helena Švajdlenková Andrej Opálek Peter Krížik Martin Nosko |
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| description | The current study reflects the demand to mitigate the environmental issues caused by the waste from the agriculture and food industry. The crops that do not meet the supply chain requirements and waste from their processing are overfilling landfills. The mentioned wastes contain cellulose, which is the most abundant carbon precursor. Therefore, one of the possibilities of returning such waste into the life cycle could be preparing the activated carbon through an eco-friendly and simple route. Herein, the carrot pulp from the waste was used. Techniques such as thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), elemental analysis (EA), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Raman spectroscopy, and x-ray diffraction (XRD) were used to investigate the thermal treatment effect during the carbon material preparation. The development of microstructure, phase formation, and chemical composition of prepared material was evaluated. The obtained carbon material was finally tested for water cleaning from a synthetic pollutant such as rhodamine B and phloxine B. An adsorption mechanism was proposed on the base of positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) results and attributed to the responsible interactions. It was shown that a significant carbon sorbent from the organic waste for water purification was obtained. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5f47d198883143c98948b9d84b100fff2023-11-20T22:46:50ZengMDPI AGMaterials1996-19442020-11-011323542410.3390/ma13235424Simple and Eco-Friendly Route from Agro-Food Waste to Water Pollutants RemovalAlena Opálková Šišková0Tomáš Dvorák1Tímea Šimonová Baranyaiová2Erik Šimon3Anita Eckstein Andicsová4Helena Švajdlenková5Andrej Opálek6Peter Krížik7Martin Nosko8Institute of Materials and Machine Mechanics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 84513 Bratislava, SlovakiaInstitute of Materials and Machine Mechanics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 84513 Bratislava, SlovakiaInstitute of Inorganic Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 84536 Bratislava, SlovakiaInstitute of Materials and Machine Mechanics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 84513 Bratislava, SlovakiaPolymer Institute of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 84541 Bratislava, SlovakiaPolymer Institute of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 84541 Bratislava, SlovakiaInstitute of Materials and Machine Mechanics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 84513 Bratislava, SlovakiaInstitute of Materials and Machine Mechanics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 84513 Bratislava, SlovakiaInstitute of Materials and Machine Mechanics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 84513 Bratislava, SlovakiaThe current study reflects the demand to mitigate the environmental issues caused by the waste from the agriculture and food industry. The crops that do not meet the supply chain requirements and waste from their processing are overfilling landfills. The mentioned wastes contain cellulose, which is the most abundant carbon precursor. Therefore, one of the possibilities of returning such waste into the life cycle could be preparing the activated carbon through an eco-friendly and simple route. Herein, the carrot pulp from the waste was used. Techniques such as thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), elemental analysis (EA), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Raman spectroscopy, and x-ray diffraction (XRD) were used to investigate the thermal treatment effect during the carbon material preparation. The development of microstructure, phase formation, and chemical composition of prepared material was evaluated. The obtained carbon material was finally tested for water cleaning from a synthetic pollutant such as rhodamine B and phloxine B. An adsorption mechanism was proposed on the base of positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) results and attributed to the responsible interactions. It was shown that a significant carbon sorbent from the organic waste for water purification was obtained.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/13/23/5424carbonagriculture wastefood wastecarrot pulpsorptionorganic pollutants |
| spellingShingle | Alena Opálková Šišková Tomáš Dvorák Tímea Šimonová Baranyaiová Erik Šimon Anita Eckstein Andicsová Helena Švajdlenková Andrej Opálek Peter Krížik Martin Nosko Simple and Eco-Friendly Route from Agro-Food Waste to Water Pollutants Removal Materials carbon agriculture waste food waste carrot pulp sorption organic pollutants |
| title | Simple and Eco-Friendly Route from Agro-Food Waste to Water Pollutants Removal |
| title_full | Simple and Eco-Friendly Route from Agro-Food Waste to Water Pollutants Removal |
| title_fullStr | Simple and Eco-Friendly Route from Agro-Food Waste to Water Pollutants Removal |
| title_full_unstemmed | Simple and Eco-Friendly Route from Agro-Food Waste to Water Pollutants Removal |
| title_short | Simple and Eco-Friendly Route from Agro-Food Waste to Water Pollutants Removal |
| title_sort | simple and eco friendly route from agro food waste to water pollutants removal |
| topic | carbon agriculture waste food waste carrot pulp sorption organic pollutants |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/13/23/5424 |
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