Preparation and characterization of flax, hemp and sisal fiber-derived mesoporous activated carbon adsorbents

Dizbay onat, Melike; Vaidya, Uday Kumar; Lungu, Claudiu; Balanay, Jo Anne

doi:10.1177/0263617417700635

Title: Preparation and characterization of flax, hemp and sisal fiber-derived mesoporous activated carbon adsorbents

Journal Article · 20 April 2017 · Adsorption Science and Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0263617417700635 · OSTI ID:1490715

Dizbay onat, Melike ^[1]; Vaidya, Uday Kumar ^[2]; Lungu, Claudiu ^[3]; Balanay, Jo Anne ^[4]

Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham, AL (United States). Center for Community Outreach Development (CORD), College of Arts and Sciences
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering
Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham, AL (United States). Dept. of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health
East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC (United States). Environmental Health Sciences Program, Dept. of Health Education and Promotion

The first aim of this study was to investigate mesoporous activated carbon adsorbents from sisal, hemp, and flax fibers by cost-effective methods. Fibers were impregnated with low concentration (20 wt.%) phosphoric acid. Carbonization temperatures were defined by thermal analysis. Bast fibers (hemp, flax) decompose at lower temperatures (419.36°C, 434.96°C) than leaf fibers (sisal, 512.92°C). The second aim was to compare bast and leaf fibers-derived activated carbon adsorbents by determining physical adsorption properties, chemical compositions, scanning electron microscope, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Results showed that natural fibers have good candidates to prepare mesoporous activated carbon adsorbents with high surface area (1186–1359 m2/g), high mesopore percentage (60–72%), and high C content (80–86%). Even though leaf-derived activated carbon developed more mesoporous structure (72%), bast-derived activated carbons provided higher surface areas (S_hemp = 1359 m²/g; S_flax = 1257 m²/g) and C content. Fourier transform infrared spectra for bast fibers-derived activated carbon adsorbents were quite similar while leaf fiber-derived activated carbon adsorbent had a different spectrum.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1490715

Journal Information:: Adsorption Science and Technology, Vol. 36, Issue 1-2; ISSN 0263-6174

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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