Treatment of Contaminated Water Laden with 4-Chlorophenol using Coconut Shell Waste-Based Activated Carbon Modified with Chemical Agents

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 460-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan ◽  
Wai hung Lo ◽  
Mika ET Sillanpää
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Coconut Shell ◽  
Contaminated Water ◽  
Chemical Agents ◽  
Shell Waste

Removal of 4-chlorophenol from contaminated water using coconut shell waste pretreated with chemical agents

2010 ◽  
Vol 85 (12) ◽  
pp. 1616-1627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan ◽  
Lo Waihung ◽  
Eveliina Repo ◽  
Mika ET Sillanpää
Keyword(s):  
Coconut Shell ◽  
Contaminated Water ◽  
Chemical Agents ◽  
Shell Waste

scholarly journals Processing and Characterization of Activated Carbon from Coconut Shell and Palm Kernel Shell Waste by H3PO4 Activation

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-104
Author(s):  
A. Nyamful ◽  
E. K. Nyogbe ◽  
L. Mohammed ◽  
M. N. Zainudeen ◽  
S. A. Darkwa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Palm Kernel ◽  
Coconut Shell ◽  
Palm Kernel Shell ◽  
Time Scanning ◽  
Shell Waste ◽  
H3po4 Activation ◽  
Characterization Of Activated Carbon

Palm kernel shell and coconut shell are used as a precursor for the production of activated carbon, a way of mitigating the tons of waste produced in Ghana. The raw Palm kernel shell and coconut shell were activated chemically using H3PO4. A maximum activated carbon yield of 26.3 g was obtained for Palm kernel shell and 22.9 g for coconut shell at 400oC, an impregnation ratio of 1.2 and 1-hour carbonization time. Scanning electron microscopy reveals well-developed cavities of the H3PO4 activated coconut shell and Palm kernel shell compared to the non-activated carbon. Iodine number of 743.02 mg/g and 682.11 mg/g, a porosity of 0.31 and 0.49 and the electrical conductivity of 2010 μS/cm and 778 μS /cm were obtained for the AC prepared from the coconut shell and Palm kernel shell respectively. The results of this work show that high-quality activated carbon can be manufactured locally from coconut shell and Palm kernel shell waste, and a scale-up of this production will go a long way to reduce the tons of coconut shell and Palm kernel shell waste generated in the country.

scholarly journals Utilization of Coconut Shell as Cr2O3 Catalyst Support for Catalytic Cracking of Jatropha Oil into Biofuel

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-45
Author(s):  
Isalmi Aziz ◽  
Yessinta Kurnianti ◽  
Nanda Saridewi ◽  
Lisa Adhani ◽  
Wahyu Permata
Keyword(s):  
Catalytic Activity ◽  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Catalytic Cracking ◽  
Catalyst Support ◽  
Proximate Analysis ◽  
Coconut Shell ◽  
Jatropha Oil ◽  
Carbon Catalyst ◽  
Shell Waste

Coconut shell waste is a waste that has a high carbon content. Carbon in coconut shell waste can be converted into activated carbon having a large surface area. This potential property is suitable to apply the coconut shell as catalyst support. To increase the catalytic activity, metal oxides such as Cr2O3 are impregnated. The purpose of this study is to synthesize Cr2O3/carbon catalyst and test its catalytic activity on catalytic cracking of Jatropha oil. The first stage was the synthesis of activated carbon and the determination of its proximate and ultimate. The second step was impregnation to produce Cr2O3/carbon catalyst. Furthermore, X-Ray Diffraction to determine crystallinity, Surface Area Analyzer to identify its surface area and Fourier Transform Infrared to analyze functional groups. Then the catalytic activity was tested on the catalytic cracking of Jatropha oil. In addition, the chemical compound composition and biofuel selectivity of the catalytic cracking product was determined using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer. Proximate analysis results showed that activated carbon contains 9%, 1%, 23%, and 67% of water, ash, evaporated substances, and bound carbon, respectively. The results of the ultimate analysis resulted in carbon (C), hydrogen (H), and nitrogen (N) contents of 65.422%, 3.384%, and 0.465%, correspondingly. The catalyst crystallinity test showed the presence of Cr2O3 peaks at 2θ: 24.43°; 33.47° and 36.25° according to JCPDS No. 84-1616. In the absorption area of 400-1000 cm-1 and the range of 2000 cm-1 showed the presence of Cr-O stretching due to Cr2O3 adsorbed into the activated carbon structure. The surface area of activated carbon and Cr2O3/carbon catalysts with a concentration of 1.3, and 5% was 8.930 m2/g; 47.205 m2/g; 50.562 m2/g; and 38.931 m2/g, respectively. The catalytic activity test presented that the best performance was showed by Cr2O3/carbon catalyst with a concentration of 5% indicated by conversion of Jatropha oil into biofuel of 67.777% with gasoline selectivity, kerosene, and diesel of 36.97%, 14.87%, and 15.94%, correspondingly.

Problems in Detoxifying Fresh Waters Polluted by Base Metal Minewaters

1971 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-79
Author(s):  
Vaclav Kresta ◽  
Gerald B. Ward
Keyword(s):  
Chelating Agents ◽  
Toxicity Tests ◽  
Contaminated Water ◽  
Total Dosage ◽  
Toxic Compounds ◽  
Mining Sites ◽  
Know How ◽  
Chemical Agents ◽  
Copper And Zinc ◽  
Receiving Waters

Abstract At many mining sites process (milling) and drainage waters escape treatment and cause receiving waters to become contaminated above avoidance or even toxic levels for fish. The present know-how on chemical agents which can be used to complex with copper and zinc to form non-toxic compounds is limited to chelating agents such as NTA or EDTA. Preferential reaction with trivalent ions such as iron means that such ions must be tied up before complexation of copper and zinc can occur. As the amount of iron in contaminated water is usually two to eight times higher than that of copper and zinc, high dosages of chelating agents are usually required. In this project, the use of salts of anthranilic acid, especially calcium anthranilate, was investigated. The consumption of anthranilateions was found to be about the same as that of NTA or EDTA, i.e. four milligrams per milligram of copper or zinc. The total dosage to be applied to contaminated waters would be, however, several times lower as iron is not involved in the reactions and copper and zinc are complexed in that order. Toxicity tests to compare the efficiency and dasages of calcium anthranilate and NTA or EDTA are presently being carried out.

Sulfur-anchored palm shell waste-based activated carbon for ultrahigh sorption of Hg(II) for in-situ groundwater treatment

2021 ◽  
pp. 125995
Author(s):  
So Yeon Yoon ◽  
Seok Byum Jang ◽  
Kien Tiek Wong ◽  
Hyeseong Kim ◽  
Min Ji Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Groundwater Treatment ◽  
Palm Shell ◽  
Shell Waste

Coconut-shell-derived activated carbon for NIR photo-activated synergistic photothermal-chemodynamic cancer therapy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gang Wu ◽  
Bao Jiang ◽  
Lin Zhou ◽  
Ao Wang ◽  
Shaohua Wei
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Cancer Therapy ◽  
Cancer Treatment ◽  
Photothermal Therapy ◽  
Carbon Nanoparticles ◽  
Coconut Shell ◽  
Photothermal Conversion

Activated carbon nanoparticles (ANs) were synthesized from coconut shell. ANs show peroxidase and photothermal conversion activities, allowing synergistic cancer treatment via chemodynamic therapy (CDT) and photothermal therapy (PTT).

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