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Production and Characterization of Activated Carbon From Iraqi Palm Fiber

https://doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2015.17682
Zahraa H. Athab
Environmental Researches Center, Babylon University, Hilla, Iraq

Corresponding Author(s) : Zahraa H. Athab

ahmed_zazaza@yahoo.com

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

Abstract

In this work, activated carbon was prepared from Iraqi palm fiber by zinc chloride activation. Activated cabon Iraqi palm fiber (PFAC) was used as low cost adsorbent material for removal of Brilliant Cresyl Blue dye (BCB) from aqueous media using batch adsorption technique. The effect of different parameters, such as, amount of adsorbent, contact time and pH were investigated. The removal efficiency of Brilliant Cresyl Blue was found equal to 98 % by using activated cabon Iraqi palm fiber. Langmuir and Freundlich models were applied in the present study to describe the adsorption isotherm. The isotherms of adsorption were fitted to the Langmuir equation better than Freundlich equation. Three kinetic models include pseudo-first order, pseudo-second order and intra-particle diffusion were applied to analyze Brilliant Cresyl Blue adsorption process. Kinetic studies showed that the adsorption kinetics was more accurately represented by a pseudo-second order model.

Keywords

Palm fiber Activated carbon Adsorption Brilliant cresyl blue Kinetics Isotherms
H. Athab, Z. (2015). Production and Characterization of Activated Carbon From Iraqi Palm Fiber. Asian Journal of Chemistry, 27(4), 1309–1315. https://doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2015.17682
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