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Activated Carbon from Date Palm Rachis for Continuous Column Adsorption of o-Cresol

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Proceedings of 2nd World Conference on Byproducts of Palms and Their Applications (ByPalma 2020)

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High surface area microporous activated carbon has been prepared from date palm rachis by chemical activation with hydroxide sodium. The process has been conducted at different impregnation ratios (NaOH/precursor = 0.5–4) and carbonization temperatures (500, 600 and 700 °C). The physical structure and chemical properties of obtained activated carbon were derived from Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), N2 adsorption/desorption isotherms, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), thermo gravimetric analysis (TGA), Boehm titration and pH zero point charge measurement (pHPZC). The activated carbon obtained under optimal conditions (600 °C, RAM = 3, 2 h) has a mesoporous structure with a specific surface area of 1108 m2 g−1 and its surface contains mainly basic groups with a pHZCN = 8. Activated carbon was used as an adsorbent for the removal of o-cresol from aqueous solutions in continuous mode. The four most popular breakthrough models, namely, Adams–Bohart, Thomas, Yoon–Nelson and Yan were used for the correlation of breakthrough curve data along with the evaluation of model parameters. The Bohart-Adams model describes admirably the initial part of the breakthrough curve ((Ct/C0) < 0.5), and the hole curve was well fitted by the Yoon-Nelson and Thomas models.

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We greatly acknowledge the financial support of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Tunisia.

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  1. Laboratory for the Application of Materials to the Environment, Water and Energy (LR21ES15), Faculty of Sciences of Gafsa, University of Gafsa, Gafsa, Tunisia

    Nisrine Khadhri

  2. Organic Chemistry Laboratory (LR17ES08), Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

    Manel Elakremi & Younes Moussaoui

  3. Faculty of Sciences of Gafsa, University of Gafsa, Gafsa, Tunisia

    Manel Elakremi & Younes Moussaoui

  4. Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Cleaner Process (LCE2P-LR21ES04), University of Monastir, 5019, Monastir, Tunisia

    Ramzi Khiari

  5. Higher Institute of Technological Studies (ISET) of Ksar-Hellal, 5070, Ksar-Hellal, Tunisia

    Ramzi Khiari

  6. University of Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LGP2, F-38000, Grenoble, France

    Ramzi Khiari

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Khadhri, N., Elakremi, M., Khiari, R., Moussaoui, Y. (2023). Activated Carbon from Date Palm Rachis for Continuous Column Adsorption of o-Cresol. In: Jawaid, M., Midani, M., Khiari, R. (eds) Proceedings of 2nd World Conference on Byproducts of Palms and Their Applications. ByPalma 2020. Springer Proceedings in Materials, vol 19. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6195-3_16

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