Sustainable oil palm trunk fibre based activated carbon for the adsorption of methylene blue.

ABSTRACT: Activated carbon (AC) is becoming the limelight due to its widespread application as an adsorbent for wastewater treatment, gases, and catalysis. However, its high consumption and price have drawn more attention to the sustainable use of natural resources as precursor for AC production. This study focuses on synthesising AC from two types of oil palm trunk (OPT) fibres, a significant agricultural waste products produced by Malaysia's thriving palm oil industries. The BET surface area of about 2057.9 m² g^-1 was achieved by chemical activation with phosphoric acid (H₃PO₄). The efficiency of the synthesised AC was critically analysed based on the adsorption experiments with methylene blue (MB) by varying several parameters (dosage of adsorbent, pH,

SUBMITTER: Gayathiri M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10719241 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature