Effect of Biochar Modification by Vitamin C, Hydrogen Peroxide or Silver Nanoparticles on Its Physicochemistry and Tetracycline Removal

The deposited data were collected as part of the research project entitled ‘Wpływ modyfikowanych biowęgli na pojemność kompleksu sorpcyjnego gleby względem nanocząstek srebra oraz antybiotyku’, eng. ‘Influence of modified biochars on the capacity of the soil sorption complex in relation to silver nanoparticles and antibiotic’, financed by the National Science Centre, Poland as part of the project under the MINIATURA 6 call (project no.: 2022/06/X/NZ9/00094). The main objective of the research was performed the production of biochar from biowaste, and they conducted modifications of obtained carbon-rich material to improve its adsorptive efficiency in antibiotic removal. In this way, a comprehensive research on the effects of modification, both inorganic and organic, on biochar adsorptive features relative to hazardous drug was performed. The research predict that modification of biochars will improve antibiotic removal, and the modified materials will prove useful in practical applications, especially in the removal of antibiotics from groundwater.

The research was conducted in the period from 1st June 2022 till 1st July 2022 at the Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences in Lublin. The collection contains the results of studies on the physicochemical properties of biomass, biochar, and chemically modified biochars and sorption capacity of the solids towards to tetracycline.

The attached files have been compressed to *.zip format. The dataset consists of the following files:

A_1 - raw data the physicochemical properties of biomass, biochar, and chemically modified biochars - SOLIDS (.xlsx, .tif);

A_2 - raw data on the determination of sorption capacity of biomass, biochar and chemically modified biochars – SORPTION (.xlsx, . sciprj);

The data was compiled on the basis of laboratory tests.

The results presented in file A_1 were obtained using the following research equipment: ASAP 2420 apparatus (Micromeritics, Norcross, GA, USA), FTIR Spectrometer (Nicolet 8700A FTIR spectrometer, Thermo Scientific, Somerset, NJ, USA), Leco TruSpec CHNS (St. Joseph, MI, United Stated), TOC-VCPH analyser (Shimadzu, Japan), Phenom ProX (Thermo Fisher Scientific), muffle furnace (Czylok FCF12SP, Poland).

The results presented in files A_2 were obtained with the use of research equipment: high-pressure liquid chromatography (Ultimate 3000, Dionex, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States), software: Chromeleon (proprietary, by Dionex and Thermo Fisher), SciDavis (open-source, opens .sciprj files).