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Advances in Innovative Adsorbents

A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 950

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Faculty of Chemical Technology and Engineering, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland
Interests: sorption; adsorbents; catalysts; carbon materials; carbon dioxide; methane; biomass; modeling
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Faculty of Chemical Technology and Engineering, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland
Interests: carbon materials; biomass-derived porous materials; CO2 adsorption; adsorbents; catalysts
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Dear Colleagues,

Adsorption stands as a fundamentally efficient process capable of generating a diverse array of chemicals, thus serving as a cornerstone for the sustainable evolution of industries. The literature offers an array of opportunities for further exploration into the design, synthesis, advancement, examination, and simulation of innovative adsorbents, with a particular focus on porous materials, e.g., activated carbons for separation applications in gaseous and liquid phases.

This Special Issue welcomes contributions focusing on various aspects of adsorbents, such as their production and modification techniques, especially for biomass-derived adsorbents; their diverse characterization methodologies; and the modeling and exploration of their efficiency.

We encourage submissions on a broad spectrum of topics within innovative adsorption processes (original research and review papers). These may include, but are not limited to, sustainable processes, innovative adsorbent synthesis, their comprehensive characterization, and their wide implications in global environmental sustainability.

Dr. Karolina Kiełbasa
Prof. Dr. Joanna Sreńscek-Nazzal
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Keywords

  • adsorption
  • absorption
  • adsorbents
  • porous materials
  • biomass-derived porous materials
  • catalysts
  • modeling

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The Use of Various Types of Waste Paper for the Removal of Anionic and Cationic Dyes from Aqueous Solutions
by Tomasz Jóźwiak, Urszula Filipkowska, Anna Bednarowicz, Dorota Zielińska and Maria Wiśniewska-Wrona
Molecules 2024, 29(12), 2809; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules29122809 - 12 Jun 2024
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This study examined the possibility of using various types of waste paper—used newsprint (NP), used lightweight coated paper (LWC), used office paper (OP), and used corrugated cardboard (CC)—for the removal of anionic dyes, Acid Red 18 (AR18) and Acid Yellow 23 (AY23), and [...] Read more.
This study examined the possibility of using various types of waste paper—used newsprint (NP), used lightweight coated paper (LWC), used office paper (OP), and used corrugated cardboard (CC)—for the removal of anionic dyes, Acid Red 18 (AR18) and Acid Yellow 23 (AY23), and cationic dyes, Basic Violet 10 (BV10) and Basic Red 46 (BR46), from aqueous solutions. The scope of this research included the characterization of sorbents (FTIR, SEM, BET surface area, porosity, pHPZC, effectiveness of water coloration), determination of pH effect on the effectiveness of dye sorption, sorption kinetics (pseudo-first-order model, second-order model, intraparticular diffusion model), and the maximum sorption capacity (Langmuir models and Freundlich model) of the tested sorbents. The use of waste paper materials as sorbents was found to not pose any severe risk of aquatic environment contamination. AR18, AY23, and BV10 sorption intensities were the highest at pH 2, and that of RB46 at pH 6. The waste paper sorbents proved particularly effective in removing cationic dyes, like in the case of, e.g., NP, which had a sorption capacity that reached 38.87 mg/g and 90.82 mg/g towards BV10 and BR46, respectively, and were comparable with that of selected activated carbons (literature data). Full article
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