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JOURNAL OF THE TAIWAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS
Volume 45, Issue 4, Pages 1618-1627Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtice.2013.10.019
Keywords
Regeneration; Spent activated carbon; Optimization; Adsorption; Isothermal; Kinetics
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51004059/E041601]
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Spent coal based activated carbon from the silicon industry has been regenerated using thermal regeneration technique with steam as activating agent. The response surface methodology (RSM) technique is applied to optimize the regeneration process. The optimization is performed for maximizing the carbon yield and the iodine adsorption capacity. The optimized conditions are observed to be a regeneration temperature of 983 degrees C, regeneration time of 135 min and steam flow rate of 2 g/min, while the corresponding yield and iodine number are 61% and 1053 mg/g respectively. The BET surface area corresponds to 1233 m(2)/g, with pore volume of 0.82 cm(3)/g. The regenerated carbon is heteroporous with the micropore volume contributing to 64.86%. The regenerated carbon is tested with methylene blue dye adsorption to assess its potential to liquid phase adsorption. The equilibrium adsorption capacity for methylene blue was estimated to be 375.93 mg/g, with the adsorption isotherm following the Langmuir isotherm model. The adsorption kinetic is found to match pseudo-second-order kinetic model. The results indicate potential application of the regenerated activated carbon for liquid phase adsorption involving high molecular weight compounds, typically for color removal in waste water streams. (C) 2013 Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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