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Contribution to the textural characterisation of Filtrasorb 400 and other commercial activated carbons commonly used for water treatment

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The textural characteristics of three commercial activated carbons, Filtrasorb 400 (F400), Industrial React High Affinity and Picabiol, commonly used in water treatment, are reinvestigated. Nitrogen physisorption isotherms are determined in the range P/P 0 = [4 × 10−7–0.998] and processed using BET, αS (Sing), Dubinin–Radushkevich and Density Functional Theory methods. In addition, fractal dimensions are determined by the Frenkel–Halsey–Hill procedure. Since F400 is often considered as a reference material in studies on the adsorption of solutes in aqueous solutions, a review of the textural characteristics of this carbon is carried out. The results obtained in this work using the different methods are consistent and a critical crossed comparison of these results allows discussing the limitations of the methods used. In particular, the impact of the P/P 0 range considered on S BET value is examined. In addition, the accuracy of the BET specific surface area is assessed in the light of information from recent literature.

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank Chemviron Carbon (European Operations of Calgon Carbon Corporation, USA) and Pica (France) who kindly provided them with the activated carbon samples. Authors wish to thank Noëlle Cristin (IRCELYON) and Camille Schlitter (Institut Français du Pétrole) who performed the nitrogen physisorption and the mercury porosimetry experiments, respectively. The corresponding author also gratefully acknowledges kind encouragement from James Hickman, Director of the NanoScience Technology Center (NSTC, University of Central Florida, USA), during her stay at NSTC.

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    Catherine Morlay & Jean-Pierre Joly

  2. NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, 12424 Research Parkway, Orlando, FL, 32826, USA

    Catherine Morlay

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Morlay, C., Joly, JP. Contribution to the textural characterisation of Filtrasorb 400 and other commercial activated carbons commonly used for water treatment. J Porous Mater 17, 535–543 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10934-009-9322-3

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