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Production, Characterisation and Applications of Activated Carbon
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Production, Characterisation and Applications of Activated Carbon

A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Processes".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 July 2023) | Viewed by 1280

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Dr. Jarosław Serafin

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Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: gas storage; CO2, H2, and CH4 gas adsorption; gas selectivity; carbon materials, including activated carbon, graphene, and MXene; catalysis; H2 production, including photocatalysis/thermocatalysis
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Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, environmental regulations are becoming stricter worldwide and activated carbon is widely one of the best technologies available for removing pollutants. They are used in many processes, such as gas separation and storage, drinking water treatment, wastewater treatment, catalysis, and medical applications. Activated carbons are believed to be one of the most effective adsorptive materials due to their high adsorption capacity through a highly developed porous structure.

They have large surface areas and diverse surface chemistry with different surface functional groups. In this special issue, special attention is paid to innovative materials and methods for the production of activated carbons and the study of novel applications, in particular, those that can be considered "environmentally friendly". This special edition, "Production, Adsorption and Applications of Activated Carbon" is looking for high-quality works focusing on the latest research in the preparation and application of activated carbons. Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Biomass conversion
  • The synthesis of porous materials
  • Different ways of activation of materials and they role of the sorbents properties
  • The physico-chemical characterization of microporous and mesoporous sorbents
  • Adsorption using microporous or mesoporous adsorbents
  • Gas and heavy metals sorption mechanism
  • High selectivity materials
  • Kintetics and modelling

Dr. Jarosław Serafin
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • biomass
  • porous materials
  • activated carbon
  • adsorption
  • characterization
  • modelling
  • kinetics
  • selectivity

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Enthalpic Determination of the Interaction of Modified Activated Carbons with Benzene and Hexane as Pure Solvents and Binary Mixtures
by Diana Hernández-Monje, Liliana Giraldo, Jarosław Serafin and Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján
Processes 2023, 11(4), 1144; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr11041144 - 7 Apr 2023
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Three activated carbons with different physicochemical characteristics are prepared and their N2 isotherms at 77 K and CO2 isotherms at 273 K are determined. The energetic interaction between three activated carbons with different physicochemical properties, and two hydrocarbons as pure liquids [...] Read more.
Three activated carbons with different physicochemical characteristics are prepared and their N2 isotherms at 77 K and CO2 isotherms at 273 K are determined. The energetic interaction between three activated carbons with different physicochemical properties, and two hydrocarbons as pure liquids and as binary mixtures at different concentrations, was characterized by determining the enthalpy of immersion, in order to evaluate the effect of adsorbents and adsorbates, as well as that of the addition of another adsorbate to the system. For the pure solvents, the enthalpy of immersion (ΔHi) is higher for the aromatic compound (−94.98 to −128.80 J g−1) than for the aliphatic compound (−16.36 to −53.35 J g−1); for the mixtures, the values are between −36.39 and −98.37 J g−1, where the interaction increases with the solid that was subjected to thermal treatment and presented the lowest content of surface oxygenated groups, while the energetic parameter decreases with the solid that presents chemical modification with nitric acid, behavior that is evident in the pure solvents and in the mixtures. Activated carbons have a CO2 adsorption between 3.43 and 3.79 mmol g−1. Full article
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