{"title":"评价明矾强化牛毛废生物炭处理植物油炼制废水的效果","authors":"Goufdour Alexis , Cornelius Tsamo , Wangmene Bagamla , Abba Paltahe","doi":"10.1016/j.scowo.2025.100061","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Vegetable oils wastewater is very coloured and rich in organic and inorganic contaminants with potential effects on humans, ecosystem and environment at large. Cattle hair biochar has good adsorbent properties which can be enhanced by alum but has not been tested before. Testing of used biochar/alum adsorbent as fertilizer is scarce despite the organic fertilizer role of biochar which can be enhanced by organics and inorganics like phosphate adsorbed from the effluent. This study is aimed at evaluating the efficiency of cattle hair waste biochar fortified with alum in removing colour and sulfate from vegetable oil refinery wastewater and investigating the effects of used adsorbents on the growth performance of maize. Biochar produced by pyrolysis at 465 °C gave a yield of 69.36 % and was characterized using FTIR, XRD, and SEM-EDX analysis. Colour and sulfate removal were studied using the parameters such as contact time without stirring, stirring time, concentration, pH dose of biochar and temperature were studied. Biochar/alum recovered after water treatment was tested as fertilizer on growth performance of maize for 34 days. This biochar is rich in carbon, very porous and contain C-O and OH<sup>-</sup> groups. The percentage removal of colour removed was higher than that of sulfate for all the parameters. For example, colour removal attained a maximum of about 98 % in 40 mins without stirring, against 74 % in 10 mins for sulfate. When the process is stirred, equilibrium is attained in 20 mins for both colour and sulfate with respective removal efficiencies of 95 and 77 %. 100 % colour was removed at pH 4–10 against pH 6 for maximum sulfate removal. Maximum colour removal of 97 % occurred at 25 °C and 86 % for sulfate at 20 °C. Colour removal is more favourabele K<sub>L</sub> = 478.468 ABS g<sup>−1</sup> compared to 0.619 L g<sup>−1</sup> for sulfate. Recycled adsorbent after treatment showed better maize growth performance than the control (the average leaf area index was 282.2 ± 36.7 on day 34 for recycled adsorbent treatment compared to 210.5 ± 13.5 for the control). Tested biochar fortified with alum is very efficient in improving the quality of studied wastewater, and the recycled adsorbents enhance maize growth.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101197,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Chemistry One World","volume":"6 ","pages":"Article 100061"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Evaluating the efficiency of cattle hair waste biochar fortified with alum on the treatment of vegetable oil refinery wastewater\",\"authors\":\"Goufdour Alexis , Cornelius Tsamo , Wangmene Bagamla , Abba Paltahe\",\"doi\":\"10.1016/j.scowo.2025.100061\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"<div><div>Vegetable oils wastewater is very coloured and rich in organic and inorganic contaminants with potential effects on humans, ecosystem and environment at large. Cattle hair biochar has good adsorbent properties which can be enhanced by alum but has not been tested before. Testing of used biochar/alum adsorbent as fertilizer is scarce despite the organic fertilizer role of biochar which can be enhanced by organics and inorganics like phosphate adsorbed from the effluent. This study is aimed at evaluating the efficiency of cattle hair waste biochar fortified with alum in removing colour and sulfate from vegetable oil refinery wastewater and investigating the effects of used adsorbents on the growth performance of maize. Biochar produced by pyrolysis at 465 °C gave a yield of 69.36 % and was characterized using FTIR, XRD, and SEM-EDX analysis. Colour and sulfate removal were studied using the parameters such as contact time without stirring, stirring time, concentration, pH dose of biochar and temperature were studied. Biochar/alum recovered after water treatment was tested as fertilizer on growth performance of maize for 34 days. This biochar is rich in carbon, very porous and contain C-O and OH<sup>-</sup> groups. The percentage removal of colour removed was higher than that of sulfate for all the parameters. For example, colour removal attained a maximum of about 98 % in 40 mins without stirring, against 74 % in 10 mins for sulfate. When the process is stirred, equilibrium is attained in 20 mins for both colour and sulfate with respective removal efficiencies of 95 and 77 %. 100 % colour was removed at pH 4–10 against pH 6 for maximum sulfate removal. Maximum colour removal of 97 % occurred at 25 °C and 86 % for sulfate at 20 °C. Colour removal is more favourabele K<sub>L</sub> = 478.468 ABS g<sup>−1</sup> compared to 0.619 L g<sup>−1</sup> for sulfate. Recycled adsorbent after treatment showed better maize growth performance than the control (the average leaf area index was 282.2 ± 36.7 on day 34 for recycled adsorbent treatment compared to 210.5 ± 13.5 for the control). 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Evaluating the efficiency of cattle hair waste biochar fortified with alum on the treatment of vegetable oil refinery wastewater
Vegetable oils wastewater is very coloured and rich in organic and inorganic contaminants with potential effects on humans, ecosystem and environment at large. Cattle hair biochar has good adsorbent properties which can be enhanced by alum but has not been tested before. Testing of used biochar/alum adsorbent as fertilizer is scarce despite the organic fertilizer role of biochar which can be enhanced by organics and inorganics like phosphate adsorbed from the effluent. This study is aimed at evaluating the efficiency of cattle hair waste biochar fortified with alum in removing colour and sulfate from vegetable oil refinery wastewater and investigating the effects of used adsorbents on the growth performance of maize. Biochar produced by pyrolysis at 465 °C gave a yield of 69.36 % and was characterized using FTIR, XRD, and SEM-EDX analysis. Colour and sulfate removal were studied using the parameters such as contact time without stirring, stirring time, concentration, pH dose of biochar and temperature were studied. Biochar/alum recovered after water treatment was tested as fertilizer on growth performance of maize for 34 days. This biochar is rich in carbon, very porous and contain C-O and OH- groups. The percentage removal of colour removed was higher than that of sulfate for all the parameters. For example, colour removal attained a maximum of about 98 % in 40 mins without stirring, against 74 % in 10 mins for sulfate. When the process is stirred, equilibrium is attained in 20 mins for both colour and sulfate with respective removal efficiencies of 95 and 77 %. 100 % colour was removed at pH 4–10 against pH 6 for maximum sulfate removal. Maximum colour removal of 97 % occurred at 25 °C and 86 % for sulfate at 20 °C. Colour removal is more favourabele KL = 478.468 ABS g−1 compared to 0.619 L g−1 for sulfate. Recycled adsorbent after treatment showed better maize growth performance than the control (the average leaf area index was 282.2 ± 36.7 on day 34 for recycled adsorbent treatment compared to 210.5 ± 13.5 for the control). Tested biochar fortified with alum is very efficient in improving the quality of studied wastewater, and the recycled adsorbents enhance maize growth.