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Active Carbon from Microwave Date Stones for Toxic Dye Removal: Setting the Design Capacity
Author(s) -
Hijab Mouhammad S.,
Parthasarathy Prakash,
Li Puyu,
Mackey Hamish R.,
Al-Ansari Tareq,
Mohammed Rafie Rushdy,
McKay Gordon
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
chemical engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1521-4125
pISSN - 0930-7516
DOI - 10.1002/ceat.202000059
Subject(s) - effluent , malachite green , adsorption , activated carbon , pollutant , waste management , microwave , chemistry , environmental science , environmental chemistry , pulp and paper industry , environmental engineering , engineering , organic chemistry , telecommunications
The widely used toxic dye malachite green (MG) poses a significant risk to human health, having a mutagenic effect. Waste date stones were used to produce microwave‐activated carbons and were applied to adsorb the highly toxic dye. The critically important task of selecting the correct design adsorption capacity for different effluent pollutant concentrations to meet effluent discharge limit standards is described and a novel design selection criteria approach is presented.