Agricultural residues as Precursors for activated carbon production (rice husk)

• Main Author: Nur Hasyimah, Mohd Kamaluddin
• Other Authors: Faizul, Che Pa (Advisor)
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Perlis 2009
• Subjects: Agricultural waste; Agriculture residue; Materials engineering; Precursor; Rice husk; Carbon, Activated
• Online Access: http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/4919

Rice husk because of low cost raw material and it activated form can be used as carbon precursor as a solution to reduce the agricultural waste. An effort was made to produce an activated carbon precursor from the rice husk an agricultural waste. The effects of different preparation parameters whi...