A review on activated carbon modifications for the treatment of wastewater containing anionic dyes

K Azam, N Shezad, I Shafiq, P Akhter, F Akhtar, F Jamil… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Polluted water resources, particularly those polluted with industrial effluents' dyes, are
carcinogenic and hence pose a severe threat to sustainable and longstanding worldwide …

[HTML][HTML] Synthesis and application of granular activated carbon from biomass waste materials for water treatment: A review

J Jjagwe, PW Olupot, E Menya, HM Kalibbala - Journal of Bioresources and …, 2021 - Elsevier
There is an increased global demand for activated carbon (AC) in application of water
treatment and purification. Water pollutants that have exhibited a greater removal efficiency …

KOH-activated carbon prepared from sucrose spherical carbon: Adsorption equilibrium, kinetic and thermodynamic studies for Methylene Blue removal

KC Bedin, AC Martins, AL Cazetta, O Pezoti… - Chemical Engineering …, 2016 - Elsevier
This work reports the synthesis of activated carbon (AC) obtained by KOH chemical
activation of spherical carbon (SC) produced from hydrothermal treatment (HT) of sucrose …

Removal of tetracycline by NaOH-activated carbon produced from macadamia nut shells: kinetic and equilibrium studies

AC Martins, O Pezoti, AL Cazetta, KC Bedin… - Chemical Engineering …, 2015 - Elsevier
A NaOH-activated carbon was prepared from macadamia nut shell using the impregnation
ratio of 3: 1 (NaOH: char)(wt: wt). The obtained material (AC M) was characterized by several …

The synthesis and characterization of high purity mixed microporous/mesoporous activated carbon from rice husk using chemical activation with NaOH and KOH

L Muniandy, F Adam, AR Mohamed, EP Ng - Microporous and Mesoporous …, 2014 - Elsevier
Activated carbon (AC) with high purity and surface area was synthesized from rice husk (RH)
using alkali leaching at room temperature. Regular and pyridine FT-IR analysis had shown …

Synthesis of biochar from lignocellulosic biomass for diverse industrial applications and energy harvesting: effects of pyrolysis conditions on the physicochemical …

A Mukherjee, BR Patra, J Podder, AK Dalai - Frontiers in Materials, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The excessive dependency on fossil fuel resources could be curtailed by the efficient
conversion of lignocellulosic biomass. Biochar, a porous carbonaceous product synthesized …

Synthesis and characterisation of novel-activated carbon from waste biomass pine cone and its application in the removal of congo red dye from aqueous solution by …

S Dawood, TK Sen, C Phan - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2014 - Springer
This study was undertaken to synthesise a novel biomass-based chemically activated
carbon from Australian pine cone and to investigate its effectiveness in the removal of …

A review on adsorption mechanism of gold cyanide complex onto activation carbon

J Xia, R Marthi, J Twinney, A Ghahreman - Journal of Industrial and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Gold is an essential metal in the economy and technologies. Most of the gold is produced
from mining and cyanidation is the primary method used for gold extraction, with Au (CN) 2 …

Comparison of physicochemical and sorption properties of activated carbons prepared by physical and chemical activation of cherry stones

P Nowicki, J Kazmierczak, R Pietrzak - Powder technology, 2015 - Elsevier
Cherry stones were used as a precursor for the preparation of activated carbons by physical
and chemical activation with CO 2 and KOH, respectively. The effect of pyrolysis temperature …

Characterization of mesoporous carbon prepared from date stems by H3PO4 chemical activation

H Hadoun, Z Sadaoui, N Souami, D Sahel… - Applied Surface …, 2013 - Elsevier
The present work was focused on the determination of texture, morphology, crystanillity and
oxygenated surface groups characteristics of an activated carbon prepared from date stems …