Environmental Protection Technology and Equipment
QIAO Xiaolei, JIA Li, GUO Jinrong, ZHANG Yongqiang, FAN Baoguo, JIN Yan
Walnut shell bio-chars were prepared in the tube furnace under different pyrolysis heating rates. The mercury adsorption performance of bio-char was characterized by the fixed bed reactor. The pore structure and surface functional groups were analyzed by N2 adsorption/desorption and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR),and the mercury adsorption mechanism was further investigated.Results show that during the same adsorption time, with the increasing of pyrolysis temperature in fix temperature preparation and the final pyrolysis temperature in heating up preparation, the bio-char mercury adsorption performance exhibits from strong to weak at the temperature of 600 ℃, 800 ℃, 1 000 ℃ and 400 ℃. The cumulative mercury adsorption amount reaches the highest value (2 942 ng/g) within 300 min at 600 ℃ in fix temperature preparation. The mercury adsorption performance of bio-char increases first and then decreases with the increases of heating rate, and the bio-char has the best adsorption performance under the heating rate of 10 K/min. 3-5 nm mesopores play a major role in the physical mercury adsorption of bio-char. The larger cumulative pore volume is, the higher adsorption amount is, and the larger cumulative pore volume is conducive to the mercury adsorption by bio-char.At final pyrolysis temperature of 600 ℃, the number of functional groups on the surface of bio-char firstly increases and then decreases with the increase of heating rate, which coincides with the adsorption performance and indicates that functional groups on the bio-char surface can affect the mercury adsorption performance of bio-char.