The deposited data were collected as part of the research project entitled ‘Wpływ złożonej modyfikacji fizykochemicznej środowiska glebowego na mobilność metali, metaloidów i herbicydów - badania laboratoryjne’, eng. ‘The impact of complex physicochemical modification of the soil environment on the mobility of metals, metalloids and herbicides - laboratory tests’, financed by the National Science Centre, Poland as part of the project under the OPUS 21 call (project no. 2021/41/B/NZ9/03059) as well as the project ‘Water in soil - satellite monitoring and improving the retention using biochar’ no. BIOSTRATEG3/345940/7/NCBR/2017 financed by Polish National Centre for Research and Development in the framework of "Environment, agriculture and forestry" - BIOSTRATEG strategic R&D programme.
The main aim of the study was to develop method of agricultural waste management – the production of two biochars (BC) from potato and raspberry stems, as well as to estimate the potential of these materials for remediation of degraded water and soil environments. The performed experiments included analyses of BC physicochemistry, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) release and ability to immobilize copper (Cu), tetracycline (TC) and carboxin (CB) in one- and two-adsorbate systems.
The research was conducted in the period from 13th December 2021 till 10th June 2022 at the Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences in Lublin (Poland). The collection contains the results of studies on: 1) characteristics of biochars and 2) adsorption of 3 types of pollutants on the obtained biochars.
The attached files have been compressed to *.zip format. The dataset consists of the following files:
1) Adsorption_study – raw data on the determination of adsorbed/desorbed amount of Cd, TC and CB on/from biochars (.xlsx).
2) Characteristics_of_materials – raw data on the measurements of water vapour adsorption/desorption, morphology (SEM), surface charge, dissolved organic carbon, content of basic and acidic groups (BOEHM), identification of surface functional groups (FTIR) and elemental composition (CHNS) of biochars (.xlsx, .tiff)
The data was compiled on the basis of laboratory tests.
The results presented in file „Adsorption” were obtained using a high pressure liquid chromatography (Ultimate 3000, Dionex) and UV/VIS spectrophotometer (Jasco V-530).
The results presented in file „Characteristics_of_materials” were obtained using the following research equipment: scanning electron microscope (Phenom ProX, Pik Instruments), automatic titrator Titrino 702 SM (Metrohm), pHmeter (Elmetron), automatic titrator Titrino 702 SM (Metrohm), TOC analyzer (multi N/C 2000, Analityk Jena), elemental analyzer (CHNS Vario EL III analyzer, Elementar Analysensysteme GmbH).