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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING OF JAPAN
Volume 37, Issue 12, Pages 1504-1512Publisher
SOC CHEMICAL ENG JAPAN
DOI: 10.1252/jcej.37.1504
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activated carbon; coffee residue; adsorption; BET surface area; functional groups
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Coffee residues from instant coffee plants were used to produce mesoporous activated carbon. A series of carbonization and activation conditions were examined to elucidate the effect of each condition. The specific surface area, mesopore and total pore volumes were evaluated by nitrogen adsorption at 77 K, and the surface chemistry was characterized by FTIR. The activated carbon derived in the conditions of a ZnCl2/coffee weight ratio of 3, an activation temperature of 600degreesC and a CO2 activation time of 4 h (R30T600H4) yielded a surface area of 900 m(2)/g, a total pore volume of 1.01 cm(3)/g with a mesopore content of 92%. The FTIR results demonstrated that the C-H group was the main functional group on the surface of coffee-derived activated carbon. The adsorptive capacities of R30T600H4 compared with a commercial activated carbon CAL for phenol, methylene blue and erythrosine red. We found that for small molecules such as phenol and methylene blue the adsorption capacity of R30T600H4 was lower than that of CAL, whereas, for larger molecules such as erythrosine red R30T600H4 was higher. The mesoporous structure and the surface chemistry of coffee-derived activated carbon associated in the adsorption were discussed.
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