INFLUENCE OF CARBONISATION TEMPERATURE ON THE SURFACE PORE CHARACTERISTICS OF ACID-TREATED OIL PALM EMPTY FRUIT BUNCH ACTIVATED CARBON

Authors

  • Norhidayah Ahmad School of Environmental Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Kompleks Pusat Pengajian Jejawi 3, 02600 Arau, Perlis, Malaysia
  • Naimah Ibrahim School of Environmental Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Kompleks Pusat Pengajian Jejawi 3, 02600 Arau, Perlis, Malaysia
  • Phan Yun Fu School of Environmental Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Kompleks Pusat Pengajian Jejawi 3, 02600 Arau, Perlis, Malaysia
  • Razi Ahmad School of Environmental Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Kompleks Pusat Pengajian Jejawi 3, 02600 Arau, Perlis, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v82.14598

Keywords:

Air pollution control, Oil palm empty fruit bunch, Carbonisation, Adsorption, Nitric oxide, Pore characterisation

Abstract

Carbonisation process affects the surface physical and chemical properties of an activated carbon. Therefore, this work aims to investigate the influence of carbonisation temperature from 400 to 550°C during activation with 85% phosphoric acid (H3PO4) on the surface pore characteristics of activated carbon produced from oil palm empty fruit bunch (EFB) for nitric oxide (NO) removal from gas streams. Pore and morphological characterisation showed that EFB carbonised at 400°C (EFBC-400) is microporous and has a uniform pore structure with 98% micropore volume. Increasing carbonisation temperature resulted in pore enlargement from 2.8 to 4.7 nm and increment in pore heterogeneity and BET surface area from 215 to 759 m2/g. However, the NO breakthrough experiment indicated that EFBC-400 is more favourable for low-temperature NO removal, due to the importance of microporosity in adsorption of NO. Further study will look at the kinetics of NO removal and the adsorbent regeneration.

Author Biography

  • Naimah Ibrahim, School of Environmental Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Kompleks Pusat Pengajian Jejawi 3, 02600 Arau, Perlis, Malaysia
    Dr Naimah Ibrahim is a senior lecturer in School of Environmental Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis since 2013. Her research interest is in adsorption, environmental catalysis and electrocatalysis especially for NOx and SOx removal from gas streams and gas phase conversion of CO2 into valuable products

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INFLUENCE OF CARBONISATION TEMPERATURE ON THE SURFACE PORE CHARACTERISTICS OF ACID-TREATED OIL PALM EMPTY FRUIT BUNCH ACTIVATED CARBON. (2020). Jurnal Teknologi, 82(5). https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v82.14598