Preparation of hydrochar with high adsorption performance for methylene blue by co-hydrothermal carbonization of polyvinyl chloride and bamboo.

Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) was blended into bamboo powder during co-hydrothermal carbonization (Co-HTC) to understand the effects on the physicochemical properties and adsorbing ability of hydrochar. The properties of hydrochar were characterized by Zeta potential, elemental analyses, BET, FTIR, XPS, Boehm titration and SEM. The addition of PVC into bamboo in Co-HTC decreased the BET area, and pore volume and radius of hydrochar, but increased the contents of surface hydroxyl and carboxyl groups.

Removal of aqueous-phase lead ions by dithiocarbamate-modified hydrochar.

Hydrochar produced from agricultural and forestry wastes and its application into the environment are very attractive. Herein, a high-efficiency dithiocarbamate-modified hydrochar (DTHC) was prepared successfully and then applied to eliminate Pb(II) from aqueous solutions. DTHC was characterized by various techniques.

The polyaminocarboxylated modified hydrochar for efficient capturing methylene blue and Cu(II) from water.

The polyaminocarboxylated modified hydrochar (ACHC) was synthesized to introduce abundant amino, hydroxyl and carboxylate multifunctional groups onto the surface of hydrochar by etherification, amination and carboxylated reaction. The ACHC was systematically characterized and used to evaluate adsorption properties of Cu(II) and methylene blue (MB) by batch sorption tests. The adsorption process toward Cu(II) and MB by ACHC obeyed the pseudo-second-order kinetic model and Langmuir model.

Tetra-aqua-bis-(6-chloro-pyridine-3-carboxyl-ato-κO)nickel(II) tetra-hydrate.

In the title compound, [Ni(C(6)H(3)ClNO(2))(2)(H(2)O)(4)]·4H(2)O, the Ni(II) ion is located on an inversion centre and is octa-hedrally coordinated by four O atoms from four water mol-ecules in the equatorial plane and two O atoms of two 6-chloro-3-carboxyl-ate ligands in axial positions. There are also four lattice water molecules present. The organic ligands are bound to the Ni(II) ion in a monodentate manner through a carboxyl-ate O atom.