Abstract The impregnation of granular activated carbon with the anionic surfactant sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) was studied and influence on aurocyanide adsorption evaluated. Thermodynamic kinetic parameters were also determined. SDS improves gold by 10%, showing a cleansing effect surface which displayed in higher specific area. Specific pore volume average diameter did not undergo important ch...

In this paper, new various morphologies of boron carbide were successfully synthesized using carbon black, activated carbon and boron oxide precursors as well as using cobalt nanoparticles as catalysts. Almost the whole morphology of synthesized boron carbide are consisted of smooth nanowires and nanobelts. With decreasing the carbon black particles size from 29 nm to 13 nm (29, 23, 17 and 13),...

the recovery and removal of the most organic acids in liquid solutions is usually treated with fixed-bed adsorption processes. among many adsorbents, granular activated carbon (gac) is used to remove organic pollutants such as benzoic acid (ba) from wastewaters conventionally. in this research, adsorption isotherm curves of ba onto gac at varying temperatures 25-60 °c are developed and the amou...

Adsorption is a fundamental process in the physicochemical treatment of municipal wastewaters, a treatment which can economically meet today's higher effluent standards and water reuse requirements. Activated carbon is the most effective adsorbent for this application. Expanded-bed contact systems permit most efficient use of granular carbon for waste treatment. The adsorption process is enhanc...