Efficient Adsorption of Methylene Blue by Porous Biochar Derived from Soybean Dreg Using a One-Pot Synthesis Method.

ABSTRACT: Soybean dreg is a by-product of soybean products production, with a large consumption in China. Low utilization value leads to random discarding, which is one of the important sources of urban pollution. In this work, porous biochar was synthesized using a one-pot method and potassium bicarbonate (KHCO3) with low-cost soybean dreg (SD) powder as the carbon precursor to investigating the adsorption of methylene blue (MB). The prepared samples were characterized with scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), elemental analyzer (EA), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET), X-ray diffractometer (XRD), Raman spectroscopy (Raman), Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The obtained SDB-K-3 showed a high specific surface

SUBMITTER: Ying Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7865629 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature