Ultra-high Rhodamine B adsorption capacities from an aqueous solution by activated carbon derived from Phragmites australis doped with organic acid by phosphoric acid activation

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (47) ◽  
pp. 40818-40827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zizhang Guo ◽  
Jian Zhang ◽  
Hai Liu

This study shows that oxalic acid (OA) and succinic acid (SA) were employed to modify Phragmites australis (PA)-based activated carbons (ACs) during phosphoric acid activation to improve Rhodamine B (RhB) removal from aqueous solutions.

Author(s):  
Amira Ouakkaf ◽  
Fatiha Chelgham ◽  
Rekia Cherbi ◽  
Mounira Chelgham ◽  
Mustapha Houhoune ◽  
...  

Agricultural wastes can be considered as suitable raw materials for activated carbon production, as activated carbon is considered as an economical adsorption material. Seeds from biomass of Ziziphus mauritiana Lam, grown in Algerian have been valorized for activated carbon production by the phosphoric acid, activation method with pyrolysis temperatures of 400, 500 and 600 °C. The effect of changes in pyrolysis temperatures on the yield and quality of the prepared activated carbon was studied. The obtained activated carbons were characterized by FT-IR and MB adsorption, a good yield of 38,625 %, a high BET surface area of 915,58 m2/g. The removal rate of methylene blue was strongly influenced by contact time, adsorbent mass and pH. An excellent removal % of methylene blue (MB) was obtained at the preferred temperature of 500 °C (AC 500).


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 894-904 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zixu Yang ◽  
Hanwu Lei ◽  
Kezhen Qian ◽  
Yayun Zhang ◽  
Elmar Villota

Activated carbon catalyst prepared by phosphoric acid activation of biomass significantly promoted the production of phenolics free of methoxy substitutes.


Carbon ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Motohide Hata ◽  
Yoshimasa Amano ◽  
Masami Aikawa ◽  
Motoi Machida ◽  
Fumio Imazeki

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 938-948 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana Giraldo ◽  
Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján

We obtain activated carbons with high portion of meso pores using coffee residues as precursor for the application of adsorption of large adsorbates. Because of its natural properties, the coffee residue exhibited a large pore size. In this work, the coffee residue were impregnated with ZnCl2and KOH, and then carbonized under the nitrogen conditions and activated with CO2respectively. Obtained activated carbons are used in the adsorption of ions Hg(II) and Zn(II). These adsorbents are efficacious to remove these ions from aqueous solution, with monocomponent equilibrium adsorption capacities ranging from from 0.002 to 0.380 mmol∙g-1for Hg on ACK3 and from 0.002 to 0.330 mmol∙g-1for ACZ3. For Zn(II) on ACK2 from 0.002 to 0.300 mmol∙g-1, and from 0.001 to 0.274 mmol∙g-1for ACZ2.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (99) ◽  
pp. 81220-81228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hai Liu ◽  
Jian Zhang ◽  
Li Jiang ◽  
Yan Kang ◽  
Cheng Cheng ◽  
...  

The present paper evaluated the feasibility of synthetizing activated carbons from xylitol with phosphoric acid activation at mild temperatures.


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