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. 2016 Apr;23(8):7146-54.
doi: 10.1007/s11356-015-4428-4. Epub 2015 Apr 11.

Thermodynamic analysis of fatty acid harvesting by novel carbon-based adsorbent

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Thermodynamic analysis of fatty acid harvesting by novel carbon-based adsorbent

Quoc Cuong Do et al. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2016 Apr.

Abstract

In this study, separation and concentration of fatty acids (FA) from the synthetic food processing wastewater containing low concentration of FA (250 mg/L) were investigated using expanded graphite (EG) as a novel adsorbent at different temperatures (298~318 K). The adsorption results were further analyzed to verify adsorption mechanisms and thermodynamics of FA onto EG. Results show that the adsorption of FA onto EG was explained well by the Langmuir model with the maximum adsorption capacity up to 8.01 g FA/g EG at 298 K, and considerably affected by temperature. The adsorption kinetics fitted with pseudo-second-order kinetic model and the adsorption mechanism analysis showed that the intraparticle diffusion was not the rate-limiting step, but the coalescence of FA droplets played the significant role for novel adsorption of FA onto EG. The calculated activation energy and thermodynamic parameters such as Gibbs free energy change (ΔG(0)), enthalpy change (ΔH(0)), and entropy change (ΔS(0)) indicated that the adsorption of FA onto EG was very feasible, was highly spontaneous, occurred physically, was exothermic in nature, and was stable in aquatic environmental changes. Overall, FA can be effectively harvested and concentrated from the food processing wastewater by EG even at low concentration.

Keywords: Adsorption; Equilibrium; Expanded graphite; Fatty acids; Kinetics; Thermodynamic analysis.

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