Biosurfactant rhamnolipid enhanced modification of corn stalk and its application for sorption of phenanthrene.

The application of modified agricultural wastes for removing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from water is gaining a growing interest. However, most modified methods using synthetic chemicals may cause secondary pollution. To overcome this limitation, in this study, a rhamnolipid modified corn stalk (RL-CS) for the removal of phenanthrene (PHE) from aqueous solution was prepared using a rhamnolipid-enhanced acid modification method. RL-CS with higher surface area and lower polarity exhibited higher PHE removal efficiency than that of raw corn stalk (RCS). The adsorption kinetics of RL-CS fitted well with pseudo-second-order kinetics (R2 > 0.999). Sorption coefficients and carbon-normalized sorption coefficient of RL-CS were 4.68 and 2.86 times higher than that of RCS. Sorption process of RL-CS was nonlinear. Meanwhile, the sorption was an exothermic process and could occur spontaneously. The present study demonstrated that biosurfactant-modified biosorbent RL-CS may be of great potential for the removal of low concentrations of PAHs from the contaminated waters.

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