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Capacitor Behaviour of Activated Carbon from Used Tea Dust Powder

https://doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2015.17970
Palanichamy Kalyani
Department of Chemistry, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai-625 021, India
Ariharaputhiran Anitha
Department of Chemistry, SACS MAVMM Engineering College, Madurai-625 301, India

Corresponding Author(s) : Palanichamy Kalyani

kalyani_1973@yahoo.com

Asian Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 27 No. 4 (2015): Vol 27 Issue 4

Abstract

Based on the energy form waste concepts we present the results of our study of utilizing used tea dust for preparing carbon, called the biomass carbon. Tea dust after decocting has been selected as a low cost source of producing the carbon. Virgin carbon is produced by heating the tea refuse around 280 ºC for 2 h and activated carbon is produced using zinc chloride. After physical characterization, the biomass derived carbons have been tested in 3 M KOH electrolyte for the possible application as electrodes in electrochemical double layer capacitors. Cyclic voltammetric studies on the activated tea carbon show significant improvement in the capacitance values over the virgin sample. The study suggests the production of low-cost carbons from house-hold wastes for an important scientific and engineering application.

Keywords

Activated carbon Electrochemical properties Tea waste Biomass carbon
Kalyani, P., & Anitha, A. (2015). Capacitor Behaviour of Activated Carbon from Used Tea Dust Powder. Asian Journal of Chemistry, 27(4), 1365–1370. https://doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2015.17970
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