Highly selective mesoporous sorbents for mercury removal from industrial wastewater

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2011

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University of the Western Cape

Abstract

The results of this study show that novel mesoporous carbons were obtained as inverse replica of SBA-15, HMS and MCM-41 silica templates, with a large pore diameter (2-4 nm), a BET surface area of 1867, 874 and 910 m2g–1 respectively for CA_SBA-15_LPG_105, CA_HMS_LPG_80 and CA_MCM- 41_LPG_80 with bimodal pore size distribution (PSD) in the mesopores range. The results obtained show that mesoporous carbon with graphitic structures can be synthesized via the LPG route.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD

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SBA-15, HMS, MCM-41, Template, Mesoporous silica, Carbon Analogue (CA), Ordered Mesoporous Carbon (OMC), Modified Ordered Mesoporous Carbon (MOMC), Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), Pyrolysis, Etching, Mesoporous carbon, Graphitic carbon, Adsorption, Hg (II), Capacity, Dosage, Langmuir isotherm, Freundlich isotherm

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