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Mechanisms of polystyrene nanoplastics adsorption onto activated carbon modified by ZnCl2
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Researchers enhanced activated carbon with zinc chloride to improve its ability to adsorb polystyrene nanoplastics from water, finding that pore filling and electrostatic interactions were the dominant removal mechanisms and that the modified carbon maintained stable performance in tap water and could be fully regenerated by high-temperature calcination.
In this study, the adsorption capacity of activated carbon was enhanced after zinc chloride activation. The effects of pore filling, n-π and π-π interaction and electrostatic interaction on the adsorption of polystyrene nanoplastics (PSNPs) by activated carbon were determined by SEM, BET, Raman spectrum, FTIR and surface Zeta potential. Pore filling, electrostatic interaction and n-π interaction and π-π interaction all played a role in the adsorption process, but n-π interaction and π-π interaction was not the decisive role. The adsorption of PSNPs on activated carbon conformed to the pseudo-second-order kinetics and Langmuir isotherm, and there was spontaneous physical adsorption process driven by entropy in the adsorption process. Further, the effects of common anions SO, HCO, and Cl in water on the adsorption of PSNPs by activated carbon were investigated, and the results showed that the presence of these ions could increase the adsorption capacity to some extent. ZCAC has a stable adsorption capacity under tap water, but its adsorption capacity is affected under lake water. In addition, the reuse of activated carbon was investugated, and the adsorption capacity of activated carbon was fully recovered after high temperature calcination. This study provided a direction for materials modification of adsorbed nanoplastics and a feasible method for removal of nanoplastics in drinking water treatment plants.
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