PMID- 20962384 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20110103 LR - 20131121 IS - 0273-1223 (Print) IS - 0273-1223 (Linking) VI - 62 IP - 8 DP - 2010 TI - Surface properties and adsorption characteristics to methylene blue and iodine of adsorbents from sludge. PG - 1705-12 LID - 10.2166/wst.2010.372 [doi] AB - Adsorbent materials created from wastewater sludge have unique surface characteristics and could be effective in adsorption applications. In this research, the sludge-adsorbents were generated by pyrolyzing mixtures of sewage sludge and H(2)SO(4). Scanning electron microscope (SEM), thermal analysis, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscope (XPS) were used to analyze the properties of sludge-adsorbent. XPS results show that the adsorbent surface functional groups with high contents of oxygen-containing groups serve as active sites for the adsorption and affect the surface characteristics; the adsorption mechanism of methylene blue (MB) is mainly Bronsted acid-base reaction between the adsorbent surface and MB; and iodine atoms are bonded to the surface of the adsorbent mainly by dispersive interactions rather than by electrostatic interactions. The results also show that H(2)SO(4) level, pyrolysis temperature and sulfuric acid/sludge weight ratio actually affected the adsorption characteristics. Using the conditions (H(2)SO(4) level of 1-18 M, pyrolysis temperature of 650 degrees C, and weight ratio of 0.8), the adsorption capacities for MB and iodine were 74.7-62.3 mg g(-1) and 169.5-209.3 mg g(-1), respectively. FAU - Deng, L Y AU - Deng LY AD - State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China. FAU - Xu, G R AU - Xu GR FAU - Li, G B AU - Li GB LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - Water Sci Technol JT - Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research JID - 9879497 RN - 0 (Sewage) RN - 0 (Sulfuric Acids) RN - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical) RN - 9679TC07X4 (Iodine) RN - O40UQP6WCF (sulfuric acid) RN - T42P99266K (Methylene Blue) SB - IM MH - Adsorption MH - Hot Temperature MH - Iodine/chemistry/*isolation & purification MH - Methylene Blue/chemistry/*isolation & purification MH - Microscopy, Electron, Scanning MH - Molecular Structure MH - Oxidation-Reduction MH - Photoelectron Spectroscopy MH - Sewage/*chemistry MH - Sulfuric Acids/chemistry MH - Surface Properties MH - Water Pollutants, Chemical/chemistry/*isolation & purification EDAT- 2010/10/22 06:00 MHDA- 2011/01/05 06:00 CRDT- 2010/10/22 06:00 PHST- 2010/10/22 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/10/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/01/05 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.2166/wst.2010.372 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Water Sci Technol. 2010;62(8):1705-12. doi: 10.2166/wst.2010.372.