PMID- 33784526 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210528 LR - 20210528 IS - 1879-1026 (Electronic) IS - 0048-9697 (Linking) VI - 781 DP - 2021 Aug 10 TI - Adsorptive removal of crude petroleum oil from water using floating pinewood biochar decorated with coconut oil-derived fatty acids. PG - 146636 LID - S0048-9697(21)01704-6 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146636 [doi] AB - The present investigation deals with the adsorptive removal of crude petroleum oil from the water surface using coconut oil-modified pinewood biochar. Biochar generated at higher pyrolysis temperature (700 degrees C) revealed higher fatty acid-binding efficiency responsible for the excellent hydrophobicity of the biochar. Fatty acids composition attached to the biochar produced at 700 degrees C was (mg g(-1) BC) lauric acid (9.024), myristic acid (5.065), palmitic acid (2.769), capric acid (1.639), oleic acid (1.362), stearic acid (1.114), and linoleic acid (0.130). Simulation of the experimental adsorption data of pristine and modified pinewood biochar generated at 700 degrees C offered the best fit to pseudo-first-order kinetics (R(2) > 0.97) and Langmuir isotherm model (R(2) > 0.99) based on the highest regression coefficients. Consequently, the adsorption process was mainly driven by surface hydrophobic interactions including pi-pi electron-donor-acceptor between electron-rich (pi-donor) polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the crude oil and biochar (pi-acceptor). A maximum adsorption capacity (Q(max)) of 5.315 g g(-1) was achieved by modified floating biochar within 60 min. Whereas the reusability testing revealed 49.39% and 51.40% was the adsorption efficiency of pristine and modified biochar at the fifth adsorption-desorption cycle. CI - Copyright (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Gurav, Ranjit AU - Gurav R AD - Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea. FAU - Bhatia, Shashi Kant AU - Bhatia SK AD - Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea. FAU - Choi, Tae-Rim AU - Choi TR AD - Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea. FAU - Choi, Yong-Keun AU - Choi YK AD - Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea. FAU - Kim, Hyun Joong AU - Kim HJ AD - Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea. FAU - Song, Hun-Suk AU - Song HS AD - Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea. FAU - Park, Sol Lee AU - Park SL AD - Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea. FAU - Lee, Hye Soo AU - Lee HS AD - Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea. FAU - Lee, Sun Mi AU - Lee SM AD - Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea. FAU - Choi, Kwon-Young AU - Choi KY AD - Department of Environmental and Safety Engineering, College of Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do 16499, Republic of Korea. FAU - Yang, Yung-Hun AU - Yang YH AD - Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: seokor@konkuk.ac.kr. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20210321 PL - Netherlands TA - Sci Total Environ JT - The Science of the total environment JID - 0330500 RN - 0 (Fatty Acids) RN - 0 (Lauric Acids) RN - 0 (Petroleum) RN - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical) RN - 0 (biochar) RN - 059QF0KO0R (Water) RN - 16291-96-6 (Charcoal) RN - Q9L0O73W7L (Coconut Oil) SB - IM MH - Adsorption MH - Charcoal MH - Coconut Oil MH - Fatty Acids MH - Kinetics MH - Lauric Acids MH - *Petroleum MH - *Pinus MH - Water MH - *Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis OTO - NOTNLM OT - Fatty acid modified adsorbent OT - Petroleum oil spill OT - Pinewood pyrolysis OT - Pruning waste biomass COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2021/03/31 06:00 MHDA- 2021/05/29 06:00 CRDT- 2021/03/30 20:10 PHST- 2020/12/08 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/03/13 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/03/17 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/03/31 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/05/29 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/03/30 20:10 [entrez] AID - S0048-9697(21)01704-6 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146636 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Sci Total Environ. 2021 Aug 10;781:146636. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146636. Epub 2021 Mar 21.