Synthesis and Characterization of Date Palm Fiber-Based Bio-Char and Activated Carbon and its Utilization for Environmental Remediation

Natural agricultural products have the potential to be a substitute for synthetic polymers absorbentsin environmental remediation and spill cleanup recovery. One of these natural by-productswhich is available in many regions world Date Palm Fibers (DPF). DPF (also known assurface fibers) sorbent that exhibits good sorption characteristics. In an attempt tovalorize this abundant, low cost byproduct, we investigated micro porosity rawmaterial by carrying out two procedures. First, hydrothermal pyrolysis using scalable reactor withonly water as solvent at high temperature (480 °C) under dry nitrogen atmosphere. Biochar yield wasfound varying from 30.5 33.6% (32%), with little bio-oil.Then resultant biochar was physically activated KOH mixture heated 750oC(0.5oC/min) kept 750°C 2 hours Argon flow tubular furnace produceactivated carbon. Second, resulting carbons were then characterized byParticle Analyzer measure their surface area, pore volume diameter.For biochar, area : 1.1374 m²/g, 0.001883 cm³/g, diameter 1355.874 Å andfor (activated carbon), 1220.2755 volume: 0.062068cm³/g, diameter: 19.0116 determined particle characterization analyzer. ScanningElectron Microscopy (SEM), X-ray Diffraction (XRD) also used other analysis .The oil behavior raw DPF, examined motoroil. The Oil Sorption Capacity (OSC) tested theoil alone over value calculated gravimetrically. maximumOSC values sorbents order of: DPF<biochar< OSC valuesof 8.952, 11.712 33.402 g*oil/g*sorbent, respectively time 30 min. That indicatethe above are proportional its areas.The materials can utilized well waste treatment forremoval hydrocarbons pollutants water. addition soil amendmentfor enhancing fertility