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Preparation of Activated Carbon from Sugarcane Bagasse Soot and Methylene Blue Adsorption

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Sugarcane bagasse soot is an agro-industrial residue rich in carbon that can be transformed into value-added materials, such as activated carbons. Therefore, this work aimed at producing activated carbon from sugarcane bagasse soot, using CO2 at 800, 850, and 900 °C, and investigating its efficiency to adsorb methylene blue as model contaminant. The results showed that the surface area and pore volume increased in the obtained carbons, with high specific areas (up to 829 m2/g), and the isotherms of the N2 adsorption describe mesoporous materials. The morphology of the prepared activated carbons showed that sugarcane bagasse soot and the activated carbons kept the fibrous structure of sugarcane bagasse, but after activation, they have cavities that resemble a honeycomb. Adsorption studies with methylene blue dye showed that the activation process resulted in adsorption capacities up to 11 times higher than sugarcane bagasse soot, which is comparable with commercial activated carbon. Dye adsorption kinetics could be described by a pseudo-second-order dependency in the studied materials, and the adsorption isotherms were better fitted by the Langmuir model. It is emphasized that cost-effective materials that are similar to commercial activated carbon were obtained.

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The authors would like to thank Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (Fapemig), and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) for the financial support and grants provided, the Escola de Engenharia de Lorena from Universidade de São Paulo (EEL-USP), for the scanning electron microscopy analyses and the Laboratório de Cristalografia da Universidade Federal de Alfenas-MG, for the XDR analyses.

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    Luana A. R. Giusto & Fábio L. Pissetti

  2. Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av Pres. Antônio Carlos, 6627, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, MG, 31270-901, Brazil

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  3. Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Caixa Postal 3037, Lavras, MG, 37200-000, Brazil

    Fabiano Magalhães

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Giusto, L.A.R., Pissetti, F.L., Castro, T.S. et al. Preparation of Activated Carbon from Sugarcane Bagasse Soot and Methylene Blue Adsorption. Water Air Soil Pollut 228, 249 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-017-3422-5

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