Characteristics of granular activated carbon from UTM pilot plant

• Main Authors: Mulop, Normah, Abdul Aziz, Ramlan, Ku Hamid, Ku Halim
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 1991
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/5679/1/NormahMulop1991_CharacteristicsOfGranularActivatedCarbon.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/5679/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

The granular activated carbon is produced from coconut shell. The pilot plant initially carbonizes the raw coconut shell to produce charcoal. The crushed charcoal is then converted to activated carbon. Factors that are affecting the activation process such as time of activation and size of particles...