Evaluation of Sustainable Green Materials: Pinecone in Permeable Adsorptive Barriers for Remediation of Groundwater Contaminated by Pb^2+ and Methylene Blue

12/16/2020
by   Samuel Darko, et al.
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We report herein, the potential of raw pinecone powder (PCP) and pinecone biochar (PCBC) as alternatives to activated carbon used in Permeable Adsorptive Barriers (PABs) for the in situ remediation of polluted groundwater. A constructed lab-scale unconfined aquifer (38×30×17 cm) fitted with PCP and PCBC PABs (21×3×20 cm), was evaluated for the removal of Pb^2+ ions in a continuous flow setup. Results indicate that after 3600 minutes, PCP was able to reduce Pb^2+ ions from a Co=50 mg/L to 7.94 mg/L for the first run and 19.4 mg/L for a second run, respectively. Comparatively, PCBC reached 6.5 mg/L for the first run and 8.94 for the second run. It was confirmed that adsorption was best described by the first-order kinetic model with R^2 values above 0.95. Maximum adsorption capacity values were found to be 1.00, 0.63, 1.08, and 0.85 mg/g for each scenario respectively. In addition, nonlinear regression models of exponential and Gaussian Processes are fit to explain remediation by time for Pb^2+ and Methylene Blue. Gaussian Processes are able to better explain the variation of pollution removal compared to simpler exponential models. When regressed against true removal percentages all models are able to provide R^2>0.99.

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