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Title: Pretreatment affects activated carbon from piassava
Keywords: Activated carbon
Attalea funifera
Leopoldinia piassaba
Corona discharge
Electrical discharge
Agricultural residues
Carbono ativado
Descarga corona
Descarga elétrica
Resíduos agrícolas
Issue Date: 2020
Publisher: MDPI
Citation: CASTRO, J. P. et al. Pretreatment affects activated carbon from piassava. Polymers, [S. l], v. 12, n. 7, 1483, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/polym12071483.
Abstract: The specificity of activated carbon (AC) can be targeted by pretreatment of the precursors and/or activation conditions. Piassava (Leopoldinia piassaba and Attalea funifera Martius) are fibrous palms used to make brushes, and other products. Consolidated harvest and production residues provide economic feasibility for producing AC, a value-added product from forest and industrial residues. Corona electrical discharge and extraction pretreatments prior to AC activation were investigated to determine benefits from residue pretreatment. The resulting AC samples were characterized using elemental analyses and FTIR and tested for efficacy using methylene blue and phenol. All resulting AC had good adsorbent properties. Extraction as a pretreatment improved functionality in AC properties over Corona electrical discharge pretreatment. Due to higher lignin content, AC from L. piassaba had better properties than that from A. funifera.
URI: http://repositorio.ufla.br/jspui/handle/1/42565
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