Characteristics of rice husk biochar blended with coal fly ash for potential sorption material

Biochar has received a great attention recently due to abundant biomass left in Malaysia. Besides that, the application of biochar in environmental aspects widely used in the world to improvise soil fertility and water quality. In this research, biochar is produced from rice husk (RH) by pyrolysis a...

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Main Authors: Wan Ab Karim Ghani, Wan Azlina, Alias, Azil Bahari, Ahmad, Nurul Farhana, Talib, Norhayati, Abd Rashid, Zulkafli
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Published: Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018
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author Wan Ab Karim Ghani, Wan Azlina
Alias, Azil Bahari
Ahmad, Nurul Farhana
Talib, Norhayati
Abd Rashid, Zulkafli
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Alias, Azil Bahari
Ahmad, Nurul Farhana
Talib, Norhayati
Abd Rashid, Zulkafli
author_sort Wan Ab Karim Ghani, Wan Azlina
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description Biochar has received a great attention recently due to abundant biomass left in Malaysia. Besides that, the application of biochar in environmental aspects widely used in the world to improvise soil fertility and water quality. In this research, biochar is produced from rice husk (RH) by pyrolysis at 500 °C using fixed-bed tube reactor. Then the biochar will be blended with coal fly ash (CFA) using the ratio of rice husk biochar (RHB) to CFA (0.2:0.8, 0.5:0.5, and 0.8:0.2) to be further analyzed on their characteristics. From proximate analysis, the ash content is increasing while moisture content, volatile matter, and fixed carbon decrease as the ratio are decrease. For determination of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur, the result from ultimate analysis indicates that hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen increase as the ratio increases. Based on the BET result, the surface area is increase proportionally to the ratio (0.2:0.8, 0.5:0.5, 0.8:0.2). Based on this research, RHB has a great potential to be applied as an adsorbent. However, blended RH with CFA are not giving desire result to be used an adsorbent. It is believed that introduction of CFA will offer some magnetic effect to the sorbant to attract pollutants.
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spelling upm-733582020-11-27T20:05:11Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/73358/ Characteristics of rice husk biochar blended with coal fly ash for potential sorption material Wan Ab Karim Ghani, Wan Azlina Alias, Azil Bahari Ahmad, Nurul Farhana Talib, Norhayati Abd Rashid, Zulkafli Biochar has received a great attention recently due to abundant biomass left in Malaysia. Besides that, the application of biochar in environmental aspects widely used in the world to improvise soil fertility and water quality. In this research, biochar is produced from rice husk (RH) by pyrolysis at 500 °C using fixed-bed tube reactor. Then the biochar will be blended with coal fly ash (CFA) using the ratio of rice husk biochar (RHB) to CFA (0.2:0.8, 0.5:0.5, and 0.8:0.2) to be further analyzed on their characteristics. From proximate analysis, the ash content is increasing while moisture content, volatile matter, and fixed carbon decrease as the ratio are decrease. For determination of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur, the result from ultimate analysis indicates that hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen increase as the ratio increases. Based on the BET result, the surface area is increase proportionally to the ratio (0.2:0.8, 0.5:0.5, 0.8:0.2). Based on this research, RHB has a great potential to be applied as an adsorbent. However, blended RH with CFA are not giving desire result to be used an adsorbent. It is believed that introduction of CFA will offer some magnetic effect to the sorbant to attract pollutants. Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/73358/1/HUSK.pdf Wan Ab Karim Ghani, Wan Azlina and Alias, Azil Bahari and Ahmad, Nurul Farhana and Talib, Norhayati and Abd Rashid, Zulkafli (2018) Characteristics of rice husk biochar blended with coal fly ash for potential sorption material. Malaysian Journal of Analytical Sciences, 22 (2). 326 - 332. ISSN 1394-2506 http://www.ukm.my/mjas/v22_n2/pdf/NurulFarhana_22_2_19.pdf 10.17576/mjas-2018-2202-19
spellingShingle Wan Ab Karim Ghani, Wan Azlina
Alias, Azil Bahari
Ahmad, Nurul Farhana
Talib, Norhayati
Abd Rashid, Zulkafli
Characteristics of rice husk biochar blended with coal fly ash for potential sorption material
title Characteristics of rice husk biochar blended with coal fly ash for potential sorption material
title_full Characteristics of rice husk biochar blended with coal fly ash for potential sorption material
title_fullStr Characteristics of rice husk biochar blended with coal fly ash for potential sorption material
title_full_unstemmed Characteristics of rice husk biochar blended with coal fly ash for potential sorption material
title_short Characteristics of rice husk biochar blended with coal fly ash for potential sorption material
title_sort characteristics of rice husk biochar blended with coal fly ash for potential sorption material
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