Organic pollutants removal from petroleum refinery effluents through adsorption using anthracite coal: Kinetics, isotherms, and thermodynamic modeling

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1 Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Soft Technologies, Physicochemical, Valorization of Biological Materials and Biodiversity, Faculty of Sciences, M'hamed Bougara University, Boumerdes 35000 (Algeria).

2 Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Applied Chemistry and Materials, Faculty of Sciences, M'hamed Bougara University, Boumerdes 35000 (Algeria).

10.24200/sci.2023.62631.7943

Abstract

The wastewater from petroleum industries mainly contains oil, organic matter and other compounds. Their physicochemical characterization showed a considerable organic pollutant load which exceeds the Algerian guidelines establishing the limitations for industrial liquid euent emissions, expressed in particular as chemical and biological oxygen demand and hydrocarbons (COD: 268.5 mg/L, BOD5: 183 mg/L, and hydrocarbons: 188 mg/L). Their removal is an important challenge for remediation of large volumes of petrochemical euents. The objective of this work is the elimination of Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) and hydrocarbons from re nery euent by the discontinuous adsorption
on anthracite, a low cost and naturally abundant coal, as a potential adsorbent. Adsorption equilibrium and kinetics data were calculated and  tted to a variety of adsorption isotherms and kinetics models. The Langmuir isotherm corresponds very well to the equilibrium data of the two pollutants on anthracite with a correlation coecient equal to 0.98. At 25C,
the anthracite-organics adsorption system reached equilibrium in 120 minutes, and the adsorption kinetics followed the pseudo-second-order pattern with a rate constant value of 0.072 and 0.084 g/mg.min for COD and hydrocarbons respectively. The pollutant removal percentage is 82% for COD and 94% for hydrocarbons at optimum mass of adsorbent=3 g. The adsorption is spontaneous, according to thermodynamic studies, which suggest an endothermic process.

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Scientia Iranica
Volume 32, Issue 9
Transactions on Chemical and Geoenergy Engineering
May and June 2025 Article ID:7943

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