Adsorption of volatile organic compounds onto activated carbon

• Main Author: Low, Chun Lai.
• Other Authors: Lua Aik Chong
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/16864
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

It is the porosity within activated carbon which imparts their dominant characteristics of adsorption. Adsorption arises as a result of the unsaturated and unbalanced molecular forces that are present on the solid surface. Thus, when a solid surface is brought into contact with a liquid or gas, ther...