A comparative study on sorption of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) by chars.pdfVIP

Chemosphere 83 (2011) 1313–1319 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Chemosphere journal homepage: www.elsevier .com/locate/chemosphere A comparative study on sorption of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) by chars, ash and carbon nanotubes Xi Chen a, Xinghui Xia a,⇑, Xilong Wang b, Jinping Qiao c, Huiting Chen a a School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, Beijing 100875, China b Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China c Key Laboratory of Radiopharmaceuticals, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), as one of emerging contaminants, has been attracting increasing con- Received 14 December 2010 cerns in recent years. Sorption of PFOS by maize straw- and willow-derived chars (M400 and W400), Received in revised form 30 March 2011 maize straw-origin ash (MA) as well as three carbon nanotubes (CNTs) was studied in this work. The Accepted 1 April 2011 sorption kinetics of PFOS by the six adsorbents was well fitted by the pseudo-second-order model. CNTs Available online 30 April 2011 reached equilibrium in 2 h, much faster than those by chars (384 h) and ash (48 h). According to the sorp- tion isotherms, both single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) and MA had