Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 200, Issue -, Pages 350-359Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.10.047
Keywords
Activated carbon; Char; Adsorption; Waste utilization; Rhodamine B
Funding
- National Research Foundation (NRF), Prime Minister's Office, Singapore under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programme, National University of Singapore [R-706-001-101-281]
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In this work, activated carbon (AC) as an effective and low-cost adsorbent was successfully prepared from carbon residue (or char, one of the by-products from woody biomass gasification) via physical activation. The surface area of char was significantly increased from 172.24 to 776.46 m(2)/g after steam activation at 900 degrees C. The obtained activated carbons were then employed for the adsorption of dye (Rhodamine B) and it was found that activated carbon obtained from steam activation exhibited the highest adsorption capability, which is mainly attributed to the higher surface area and the abundance of hydroxyl (-OH) and carboxyl (-COOH) groups on the activated carbon surface. Moreover, it was also found that the adsorption capability significantly increased under the basic condition, which can be attributed to the increased electrostatic interaction between the deprotonated (negatively charged) activated carbon and dye molecules. Furthermore, the equilibrium data were fitted into different adsorption isotherms and found to fit well with Langmuir model (indicating that dye molecules form monolayer coverage on activated carbon) with a maximum monolayer adsorption capability of 189.83 mg/g, whereas the adsorption kinetics followed the pseudo-second-order kinetics. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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