Carbon from agricultural waste as an adsorbent in the removal of chromium and nickel ions from aqueous solution

• Main Author: Nor Harlina, Haji Hassan
• Other Authors: Saiful Azhar Saad
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) 2012
• Subjects: Sugarcane bagasse; Rice straw; Carbon; Agricultural waste; Heavy metal ions removal
• Online Access: http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/22188

The objectives of this study were to produce carbon from sugarcane bagasse and rice straw by pyrolysis technique as an adsorbent for heavy metal removal and to determine the optimum condition with respect to contact time, pH of solution, adsorbent doses, particle sizes of adsorbent, initial metal...