Effect of Acid–Base Modified Biochar on Chlortetracycline Adsorption by Purple Soil

Zhifeng Liu, Xun Fang, Lingyuan Chen, Bo Tang, Fengmin Song and Wenbin Li
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Zhifeng Liu: School of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Shaanxi University of Technology, Hanzhong 723001, China
Xun Fang: School of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Shaanxi University of Technology, Hanzhong 723001, China
Lingyuan Chen: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, China West Normal University, Nanchong 637009, China
Bo Tang: School of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Shaanxi University of Technology, Hanzhong 723001, China
Fengmin Song: School of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Shaanxi University of Technology, Hanzhong 723001, China
Wenbin Li: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, China West Normal University, Nanchong 637009, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 10, 1-10

Abstract: We used three purple soil (Hechuan, Jialing, and Cangxi) samples from the Jialing River basin as the research objects and added different proportions of an acid–base modified Alternanthera philoxeroides biochar (C m ) to the purple soil to study the effect of C m on the adsorption of chlortetracycline (CTC) in the purple soil. The results indicated the following: (1) At 30 °C and pH = 6, the soil adsorption capacity increased with an increasing initial concentration of CTC. The maximum adsorption amount of CTC for each tested sample was in the range of 2054.63–3631.21 mg/kg, and the adsorption capacity in different C m amended soils was ranked in the order of 10% C m > 5% C m > 2% C m > CK. The adsorption capacity of CTC increased with an increase in the proportion of C m . Furthermore, under the same addition ratio of C m , Hechuan soil was found to have a better adsorption effect for CTC than Jialing and Cangxi soil. (2) The Langmuir model was the most suitable for fitting the adsorption behavior of CTC on different purple soils, and the fitting coefficients were all greater than 0.9, indicating that the adsorption of CTC on each soil sample occurred via monolayer adsorption. The thermodynamic experiment results showed that an increase in temperature was beneficial to the process of CTC adsorption, which was a spontaneous, endothermic, and entropy-adding process. (3) At pH = 6, the ionic strength ranged from 0.01 to 0.5 mol/L and the adsorption capacity of CTC of the soil samples decreased with an increase in ionic strength. In the range of pH 2–10, the adsorption capacity of CTC in all the soil samples decreased with an increase in pH. The inhibition capacity of CTC in the soil samples under acidic conditions was notably higher than that under alkaline conditions.

Keywords: Alternanthera philoxeroides; biochar; modification; chlortetracycline; adsorption capacity; Jialing River (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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