Plasma Treated Active Carbon for Capacitive Deionization of Saline Water

Zeng, Aiping; Shrestha, Maheshwar; Wang, Keliang; Neto, Victor F.; Gabriel, Bárbara; Fan, Qi Hua

doi:10.1155/2017/1934724

Title: Plasma Treated Active Carbon for Capacitive Deionization of Saline Water

Journal Article · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Journal of Nanomaterials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/1934724· OSTI ID:1393874

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Univ. of Aveiro (Portugal). Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Univ. of Aveiro (Portugal). Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation, Department of Mechanical Engineering

The plasma treatment on commercial active carbon (AC) was carried out in a capacitively coupled plasma system using Ar + 10% O₂at pressure of 4.0 Torr. The RF plasma power ranged from 50 W to 100 W and the processing time was 10 min. The carbon film electrode was fabricated by electrophoretic deposition. Micro-Raman spectroscopy revealed the highly increased disorder of sp²C lattice for the AC treated at 75 W. An electrosorption capacity of 6.15 mg/g was recorded for the carbon treated at 75 W in a 0.1 mM NaCl solution when 1.5 V was applied for 5 hours, while the capacity of the untreated AC was 1.0 mg/g. The plasma treatment led to 5.09 times increase in the absorption capacity. The jump of electrosorption capacity by plasma treatment was consistent with the Raman spectra and electrochemical double layer capacitance. This work demonstrated that plasma treatment was a potentially efficient approach to activating biochar to serve as electrode material for capacitive deionization (CDI).

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Research Organization:: South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: FG36-08GO88073

OSTI ID:: 1393874

Journal Information:: Journal of Nanomaterials, Vol. 2017; ISSN 1687-4110

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