Effect of phosphoric acid and temperature profile on pine cone based activated carbon production and its effectiveness in the removal of Congo red dye by adsorption

This study was developed to synthesize a chemically activated carbon from Australian raw pine cone and to evaluate its effectiveness as a low cost adsorbent in the removal of anionic dyes such as Congo red from aqueous solution. Pine cone is a natural and low-cost agricultural by-product. The effect...

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Main Authors: Dawood, Sara, Sen, Tushar, Phan, Chi
Other Authors: ICEAI
Format: Conference Paper
Published: ICEAI 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32921
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author Dawood, Sara
Sen, Tushar
Phan, Chi
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description This study was developed to synthesize a chemically activated carbon from Australian raw pine cone and to evaluate its effectiveness as a low cost adsorbent in the removal of anionic dyes such as Congo red from aqueous solution. Pine cone is a natural and low-cost agricultural by-product. The effects of various phosphoric acid concentrations and temperature profiles on activated carbon production were studied. Synthesized activated carbon samples were characterized by bulk density, particle size distribution and CHNS analysis. Batch adsorption experiments were carried out under different physico- chemical process parameters such as solution pH and adsorbent dose. It was observed that the adsorption process was pH dependent and the maximum adsorption occurred at low pH. Also, it was found that amount of dye adsorbed per unit activated carbon qt (mg/g) was decreasing al higher initial adsorbent dose. These results suggest that pine cone is a good and low cost feed material for the production of biomass activated carbon.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-329212017-01-30T13:33:53Z Effect of phosphoric acid and temperature profile on pine cone based activated carbon production and its effectiveness in the removal of Congo red dye by adsorption Dawood, Sara Sen, Tushar Phan, Chi ICEAI Raw pine cone Adsorption Congo red Pine cone based activated carbon This study was developed to synthesize a chemically activated carbon from Australian raw pine cone and to evaluate its effectiveness as a low cost adsorbent in the removal of anionic dyes such as Congo red from aqueous solution. Pine cone is a natural and low-cost agricultural by-product. The effects of various phosphoric acid concentrations and temperature profiles on activated carbon production were studied. Synthesized activated carbon samples were characterized by bulk density, particle size distribution and CHNS analysis. Batch adsorption experiments were carried out under different physico- chemical process parameters such as solution pH and adsorbent dose. It was observed that the adsorption process was pH dependent and the maximum adsorption occurred at low pH. Also, it was found that amount of dye adsorbed per unit activated carbon qt (mg/g) was decreasing al higher initial adsorbent dose. These results suggest that pine cone is a good and low cost feed material for the production of biomass activated carbon. 2013 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32921 ICEAI restricted
spellingShingle Raw pine cone
Adsorption
Congo red
Pine cone based activated carbon
Dawood, Sara
Sen, Tushar
Phan, Chi
Effect of phosphoric acid and temperature profile on pine cone based activated carbon production and its effectiveness in the removal of Congo red dye by adsorption
title Effect of phosphoric acid and temperature profile on pine cone based activated carbon production and its effectiveness in the removal of Congo red dye by adsorption
title_full Effect of phosphoric acid and temperature profile on pine cone based activated carbon production and its effectiveness in the removal of Congo red dye by adsorption
title_fullStr Effect of phosphoric acid and temperature profile on pine cone based activated carbon production and its effectiveness in the removal of Congo red dye by adsorption
title_full_unstemmed Effect of phosphoric acid and temperature profile on pine cone based activated carbon production and its effectiveness in the removal of Congo red dye by adsorption
title_short Effect of phosphoric acid and temperature profile on pine cone based activated carbon production and its effectiveness in the removal of Congo red dye by adsorption
title_sort effect of phosphoric acid and temperature profile on pine cone based activated carbon production and its effectiveness in the removal of congo red dye by adsorption
topic Raw pine cone
Adsorption
Congo red
Pine cone based activated carbon
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32921