Effect of Chemical Washing Pre-treatment of Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) biochar on Characterization of Hydrogel Biochar composite as Bioadsorbent

Hydrogel biochar composite (HBC) is a recent interest among researchers because of the hydrophilic characteristic which can adsorb chemical fluid and showed a versatile potential as adsorbent in removing hazardous material in wastewater and gas stream. In this study, the effect of chemical washing p...

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Published inIOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering Vol. 358; no. 1; pp. 12018 - 12024
Main Authors Meri, N H, Alias, A B, Talib, N, Rashid, Z A, Wan, W A, Karim Ghani, Ab
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.05.2018
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Acrylamide
Ammonium peroxodisulfate
Differential scanning calorimetry
Endothermic reactions
Fourier transforms
Functional groups
Gas streams
Hazardous materials
Hazardous wastes
Hydrochloric acid
Hydrogels
Hydrogen chloride
Hydrogen peroxide
Infrared spectroscopy
Methylene bisacrylamide
Pretreatment
Pyrolysis
Thermal resistance
Thermodynamic properties
Washing
Wastewater
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Summary:Hydrogel biochar composite (HBC) is a recent interest among researchers because of the hydrophilic characteristic which can adsorb chemical fluid and showed a versatile potential as adsorbent in removing hazardous material in wastewater and gas stream. In this study, the effect of chemical washing pre-treatment by using two different type of chemical agent Hydrochloric Acid (HCL) and Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) was analysed and investigated. The raw EFB biochar was prepared using microwave assisted pyrolysis under 1000W for 30 min under N2 flow with 150 mL/min. To improve the adsoprtion ability, the EFB biochar has been chemical washed pre-treatment with Hydrochloric Acid (HCl) and Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) before polymerization process with acrylamide (AAm) as monomer, N,N'-methylenebisacrylamide (MBA) as crosslinker and ammonium persulfate (APS) as initiator. The characterization has studied by using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC). FTIR result shows that, the formation of Raw EFB to Hydrogel Biochar Composite (Raw EFB > EFB Biochar > Treated Biochars (HCl & H2O2) > Hydrogel Biochar Composite) have changed in functional group. For DSC result it shows that the thermal behaviour of all samples is endothermic process and have high thermal resistance.
ISSN:1757-8981
1757-899X
DOI:10.1088/1757-899X/358/1/012018