background: nanotechnology is a new approach that has been lionized in recent years. one of its applications is its consumption as an absorbent. in this study, the single-wall carbon nanotubes (swcnts) were used as an absorbent for sampling benzene in the air. materials and methods: for this study, swcnts manufactured by iran and skc’s activated charcoal were used for sampling benzene vapors. p...

dissolved organic nitrogen (don) can react with disinfectants to produce numerous disinfectionbyproducts (dbps), particularly nitrogen-containing dbps (n-dbps), and produce serious adverse effectson public health. widely used biological processes in drinking water treatment can increase don in effluents,and enhance these ill effects. this study investigated don in a full-scale two-stage ozonati...

there have been increasing interests in finding new and innovative solution for removal of contaminants from soils recently. in the present investigation, electro kinetic (ek) process coupled with activated carbon barrier to remove nickel from kaolinite clayey soil is investigated. laboratory tests were performed by applying a constant voltage to nominal electric field strength of 1 and 1.25 v/...

In this study, powder activated carbon (PAC) and magnetic nanoparticles of iron (III) oxide were used for synthesis of Fe3O4-activated carbon magnetic nanoparticles (AC-Fe3O4 MNPs) as an adsorbent for the removal of aniline. The characteristics of adsorbent were evaluated by SEM, TEM, XRD and BET. Also, the impact of different parameters such as pH, contact time, adsorbent dosage, aniline initi...

Nitrate contamination of water resources and the growing concentration of nitrate endanger human health and the environment and considering its reduction strategies from water resources is important. The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of removal of nitrate from aqueous solutions using granular activated carbon from grape wood coated with iron nanoparticles. The results sho...

In this work, a low-cost activated carbon as well as non-hazardous material, with high adsorption capacity, was prepared from Melia azedarach fruit (MF) by ZnCl2 activation for the removal of Pb(II) toxic metal from aqueous solutions. The microstructure of the activated carbon was observed by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). Batch experiments have been performed as a function of pH, contact ...

The present study aims at investigating the potential of activated carbon AC prepared from waste cotton fiber for the removal of Acid Dyes from aqueous solutions. The prepared activated carbon was characterized by pore structure analysis, Fourier transforms infrared spectroscopy FTIR. Batch adsorption studies were carried out and the effect of experimental parameters such as pH, initial dye con...

Adsorption of 1-Butanol, Phenol, and P-nitrophenol on activated carbon havebeen studied. The results were used to testifying the validity of different modelsbased on thermodynamic principles: Freundlich, Langmuir and Henry isotherms.The maximum capacity of adsorbent for three compounds was determined, Theconstants of equilibrium were determined by Freundlich isotherm and virialisotherm expressi...

In the paper we developed a new method to determine the absolute amount of adsorption. This method relies on the excess adsorption isotherm and the density profile in the pore of one material. To compute the density profile and decrease complex calculation of obtaining the absolute amount of adsorption we introduced Simplified Local-Density (SLD) model. A few of appropriate parameters were ...