Production of high surface area mesoporous activated carbons from waste biomass using hydrogen peroxide-mediated hydrothermal treatment for adsorption applications

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 273, Issue , 2015, Pages 622-629

  Jain, Akshay ^a   Balasubramanian, Rajasekhar ^a   Srinivasan, M P ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Chemical activation; Dye adsorption; Hydrogen peroxide; Hydrothermal carbonization; Mesoporous activated carbon; Oxidizing agent

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; CARBONIZATION; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; OXIDATION; PEROXIDES; WASTE TREATMENT;

DYE ADSORPTION; HIGH ADSORPTION CAPACITY; HIGH SURFACE AREA MESOPOROUS; HYDROTHERMAL CARBONIZATION; HYDROTHERMAL TREATMENTS; MESOPOROUS ACTIVATED CARBON; MESOPOROUS CARBON; OXIDIZING AGENTS;

GAS ADSORPTION;

EID: 84926615303     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2015.03.111     Document Type: Article

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