scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF LONG EXPOSURE OF BIRCH, ASPEN AND PINE SAWDUST IN WATER ON YIELD AND SPECIF-IC SURFACE AREA OF THE CARBON PRODUCT

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Svetlana Ivanovna Tsyganova ◽  
Yelena Valentinovna Mazurova ◽  
Galina Nikolayevna Bondarenko ◽  
Ol'ga Yur'yevna Fetisova

The article presented researches concerning the effect of prolonged exposure in water of wood of different species - birch, aspen and pine, on the formation of carbon materials structure during carbonization. The possibility of using wood waste of different species, subject to long exposure in water, to obtain more porous carbon materials than using original wood is shown. It was established that the aging of different species in water stimulates the disclosure of the porous structure of the carbon product. This particularly applies to the carbon product of pine wood, the specific surface area which increases from 10 to 455 m2 g-1. It was shown that the yield of the carbon product, increases by 15–25 wt.% using wood prolonged exposure in water. Using XRD and electron microscopy, features of the structural transformation of birch, aspen and pine wood subjected to water treatment were revealed. Prolonged exposure of different wood species in the water affects the degree of crystallinity of the cellulose fiber in wood. The crystalline component of pine is exposed to the greatest destruction under the action of water. It was noted that after water treatment of wood, the part of the amorphous component in the carbon product increases, regardless of the type of wood used.

MRS Bulletin ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 890-894 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Moreno-Castilla ◽  
José Rivera-Utrilla

Activated carbons are the most important carbon materials used in water treatment. Their known world production is around 500,000 tons per year, of which about 80% is used for liquid-phase applications. These solids are manufactured in powder or granular form from a large variety of raw materials and are unique and versatile adsorbents due to their highly developed porosity, their large surface area (which in some cases can be up to 3000 m2/g), and their variable surface chemistry.


Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suhong Ren ◽  
Liping Deng ◽  
Bo Zhang ◽  
Yafang Lei ◽  
Haiqing Ren ◽  
...  

Hierarchical porous carbon materials made from cork were fabricated using a facile and green method combined with air activation, without any templates and chemical agents. The influence of air activation on the texture and other surface characteristics of the carbon materials were evaluated by various characterization techniques. Results indicate that air oxidation can effectively improve the surface area and the hierarchical porous structure of carbon materials, as well as increase the number of oxygen-containing functional groups on the carbon surface. The specific surface area and the pore volume of the carbon material activated by air at 450 °C (C800-M450) can reach 580 m2/g and 0.379 cm3/g, respectively. These values are considerably higher than those for the non-activated material (C800, 376 m2/g, 0.201 cm3/g). The contents of the functional groups (C–O, C=O and O–H) increased with rising activation temperature. After air activation, the adsorption capacity of the carbon materials for methylene blue (MB) and methyl orange (MO) was increased from 7.7 and 6.4 mg/g for C800 to 312.5 and 97.1 mg/g for C800-M450, respectively. The excellent dye removal of the materials suggests that the porous carbon obtained from biomass can be potentially used for wastewater treatment.


2015 ◽  
Vol 749 ◽  
pp. 17-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Sreńscek Nazzal ◽  
Karolina Glonek ◽  
Jacek Młodzik ◽  
Urszula Narkiewicz ◽  
Antoni W. Morawski ◽  
...  

Microporous carbons prepared from commercial activated carbon WG12 by KOH and/or ZnCl2 treatment were examined as adsorbents for CO2 capture. The micropore volume and specific surface area of the resulting carbons varied from 0.52 cm3/g (1374 m2/g) to 0.70 cm3/g (1800 m2/g), respectively. The obtained microporous carbon materials showed high CO2 adsorption capacities at 40 bar pressure reaching 16.4 mmol/g.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 854 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanbo Xiao ◽  
Cheng-an Tao ◽  
Yujiao Li ◽  
Xianzhe Chen ◽  
Jian Huang ◽  
...  

Herein, a facile dopamine assisted one-pot synthesis approach is proposed for the preparation of porous carbon with a specific surface area (SSA) up to 2593 m2/g through the direct pyrolysis of a mixture of glucose, NH4Cl, and dopamine hydrochloride (DAH). The glucose is adopted as the carbon source and foaming agent, NH4Cl is used as the blowing agent, and DAH is served as collaborative carbon precursor as well as the nitrogen source for the first time. The effect of dopamine on the component, structure, and SSA of the as-prepared porous carbon materials are systematically studied. The moderate addition of dopamine, which influences the condensation and polymerization of glucose, matches better with ammonium salt decomposition. The SSA of porous carbon increases first and then decreases with the increasing amount of dopamine. In our case, the porous carbon produced with 5 wt% dopamine (PC-5) achieves the maximum SSA of up to 2593 m2/g. Accordingly, it also shows the greatest electrochemical performance. The PC-5 shows a capacitance of 96.7 F/g calculated from the discharge curve at 1 A/g. It also has a good capacitive rate capacity, the specific capacitance can still maintain 80%, even at a high current density of 10 A/g. Moreover, PC-5 exhibits a good cycling stability of 98.1% capacitive retention after 1000 cycles. The proposed method may show promising prospects for preparing porous carbon materials as advanced energy storage materials, storage, and catalyst supports.


2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanhong Lu ◽  
Guankui Long ◽  
Long Zhang ◽  
Tengfei Zhang ◽  
Mingtao Zhang ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 804 ◽  
pp. 89-93
Author(s):  
Jing Yi Yang ◽  
Yu Qiong Chen ◽  
Ying Chuan Ma ◽  
Xin Zhang ◽  
Ling Ling Luo ◽  
...  

Graphene is a fascinating new member of carbon materials with honeycomb and one-atom-thick structure, consisting of 2D hexagonal lattices of sp2 carbon atoms covalently bonded. Graphene has a huge theory specific surface area (over 2600 m2 g1), good thermal conductivity, high values of Youngs modulus and fracture strength, high thermal stability and chemical stability and fast mobility of charge carriers, etc.. In recent years, many researchers found graphene have outstanding adsorption capacity of dyes in aqueous solution due to its high specific surface area. This paper summarized the graphene, graphene oxide and functionalized graphene removing various dyes in wastewater.


Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiano Gomes Ferreira de Paula ◽  
Ignacio Campello-Gómez ◽  
Paulo Fernando Ribeiro Ortega ◽  
Francisco Rodríguez-Reinoso ◽  
Manuel Martínez-Escandell ◽  
...  

Although traditionally high-surface area carbon materials have been considered as rigid structures with a disordered three dimensional (3D) network of graphite microdomains associated with a limited electrical conductivity (highly depending on the porous structure and surface chemistry), here we show for the first time that this is not the case for activated carbon materials prepared using harsh activation conditions (e.g., KOH activation). In these specific samples a clear structural re-orientation can be observed upon adsorption of different organic molecules, the structural changes giving rise to important changes in the electrical resistivity of the material. Whereas short chain hydrocarbons and their derivatives give rise to an increased resistivity, the contrary occurs for longer-chain hydrocarbons and/or alcohols. The high sensitivity of these high-surface area carbon materials towards these organic molecules opens the gate towards their application for sensing devices.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (23) ◽  
pp. 5132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jung Eun Park ◽  
Gi Bbum Lee ◽  
Bum Ui Hong ◽  
Sang Youp Hwang

In this study, spent activated carbons (ACs) were collected from a waste water treatment plant (WWTP) in Incheon, South Korea, and regenerated by heat treatment and KOH chemical activation. The specific surface area of spent AC was 680 m2/g, and increased up to 710 m2/g through heat treatment. When the spent AC was activated by the chemical agent potassium hydroxide (KOH), the surface area increased to 1380 m2/g. The chemically activated ACs were also washed with acetic acid (CH3COOH) to compare the effect of ash removal during KOH activation. The low temperature N2 adsorption was utilized to measure the specific surface areas and pore size distributions of regenerated ACs by heat treatment and chemical activation. The functional groups and adsorbed materials on ACs were also analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and X-ray fluorescence. The generated ash was confirmed by proximate analysis and elementary analysis. The regenerated ACs were tested for toluene adsorption, and their capacities were compared with commercial ACs. The toluene adsorption capacity of regenerated ACs was higher than commercial ACs. Therefore, it is a research to create high value-added products using the waste.


2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (12) ◽  
pp. 2500-2510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry H. Mungondori ◽  
Spencer Ramujana ◽  
David M. Katwire ◽  
Raymond T. Taziwa

AbstractThis work investigates the preparation of a magnetically recoverable photocatalytic nanocomposite of maghemite nanoparticles coated with silica and carbon doped titanium dioxide. The novel nanocomposite boasts the advantages of efficient photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants in water and ease of recovery of the fine particles after water treatment. The photocatalytic nanocomposite was successfully synthesized through a stepwise approach via co-precipitation and sol-gel methods. Characterisation by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) substantiated the existence of the intended structure of the nanocomposite and the particles were found to be in the size range of 15–22 nm with a quasi-spherical shape. Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface area analysis revealed an average surface area of 55.20 m2/g, which is higher than that of commercial TiO2 (Degussa P25, 50.00 m2/g), and an average pore diameter of 8.36 nm. A 5 ppm methylene blue solution was degraded with an efficiency of 96.8% after 3 h of solar irradiation, which was 19.7% greater than using the same photo-catalyst under strict UV light irradiation. Photo-catalysis using these nanoparticles was observed to be very effective. The prepared novel visible light active nanocomposite has great potential for incorporation into water treatment systems because it exhibits good stability and magnetism, as well as high photocatalytic efficiency.


2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (16) ◽  
pp. 5006-5014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuanyuan Li ◽  
Nan Chen ◽  
Zengling Li ◽  
Huibo Shao ◽  
Liangti Qu

Carbon materials are widely used as capacitive deionization (CDI) electrodes due to their high specific surface area (SSA), superior conductivity, and better stability, including activated carbon, carbon aerogels, carbon nanotubes and graphene.


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