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Recycling waste polymer packaging materials as effective active carbon porous materials for uranium removal from commercial phosphoric acid

  • Saber Ibrahim , Ahmed M. Masoud EMAIL logo , Mahmoud M. El-Maadawy EMAIL logo , Hager Fahmy und Mohamed Taha
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 1. Dezember 2023
Radiochimica Acta
Aus der Zeitschrift Radiochimica Acta Band 112 Heft 2

Abstract

Plastic packaging waste is considered a serious threat to the environment due to its non-biodegradable nature. Transforming plastic waste into active carbons using pyrolysis methods could be a valuable option to solve the challenge of plastic waste. Synthesized active carbon was differentiated using zeta potential, particle size, SEM, BET, and DSC. This study also investigates the use of obtained active carbons for U(VI) removal from commercial phosphoric acid. The kinetics of adsorption were found to follow the pseudo-second-order model and intra-particle diffusion as one of the controlling mechanisms. Langmuir, and Freundlich, isotherms were employed to explore the equilibrium data. Furthermore, thermodynamic investigations revealed that uranium uptake is an endothermic, feasible, and spontaneous process. The present study concludes that plastic waste-based activated carbon could be employed as a low-cost alternative to commercial activated carbon for uranium removal from phosphoric acid and the production of green fertilizers.

Keywords: waste recycling; plastic packaging; active carbon; phosphoric acid; water treatment
Corresponding authors: Ahmed M. Masoud, and Mahmoud M. El-Maadawy, Nuclear Materials Authority, P.O. Box 530, El Maddi, Cairo, Egypt, E-mail: (A.M. Masoud), (M.M. El-Maadawy)

  1. Research ethics: Not applicable.

  2. Author contributions: Ahmed Masoud: Experimental operation, Data curation & interpretation, writing – original draft – reviewing & editing. Hager Fahmy: Synthesis, Data curation & interpretation, Writing – original draft. El-Maadawy: Validation, Data curation & interpretation, Writing – original draft, reviewing & editing. Saber Ibrahim: Synthesis, Characterization, Methodology, Validation, Data curation & interpretation, Writing – original draft. Mohamed Taha: Methodology, Data curation & interpretation, Writing – original draft, reviewing & editing.

  3. Competing interests: The authors of this manuscript have no competing or conflict of interest with any person or organization.

  4. Research funding: Not applicable.

  5. Data availability: The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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Supplementary Material

This article contains supplementary material (https://doi.org/10.1515/ract-2023-0165).

Received: 2023-05-03
Accepted: 2023-11-20
Published Online: 2023-12-01
Published in Print: 2024-02-26

© 2023 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

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  1. Frontmatter
  2. Original Papers
  3. Morphology of uranium oxides reduced from magnesium and sodium diuranate
  4. HR GRS-HPGe as NDT method for quantification of uranium and 235U content in process stream samples from UO2 fuel production facilities
  5. Recycling waste polymer packaging materials as effective active carbon porous materials for uranium removal from commercial phosphoric acid
  6. Overcoming the obstacle of excess acetonitrile content in the final fluorine-18 radiotracers
  7. Radioactivity of 226Ra, 232Th and 40K in soil in Northwest part of Turkey: assessment of radiological impacts
  8. Determination of natural radionuclides and heavy metal concentrations in the groundwater and adjacent areas of the Kattakurgan reservoir, Uzbekistan
  9. Obituary
  10. Obituary: Jae-Il Kim (1936–2023)
https://doi.org/10.1515/ract-2023-0165
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
waste recycling; plastic packaging; active carbon; phosphoric acid; water treatment

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Original Papers
  3. Morphology of uranium oxides reduced from magnesium and sodium diuranate
  4. HR GRS-HPGe as NDT method for quantification of uranium and 235U content in process stream samples from UO2 fuel production facilities
  5. Recycling waste polymer packaging materials as effective active carbon porous materials for uranium removal from commercial phosphoric acid
  6. Overcoming the obstacle of excess acetonitrile content in the final fluorine-18 radiotracers
  7. Radioactivity of 226Ra, 232Th and 40K in soil in Northwest part of Turkey: assessment of radiological impacts
  8. Determination of natural radionuclides and heavy metal concentrations in the groundwater and adjacent areas of the Kattakurgan reservoir, Uzbekistan
  9. Obituary
  10. Obituary: Jae-Il Kim (1936–2023)
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