Adsorption behaviors of sugars and sulfuric acid on activated porous carbon

Kyong-Mok Park; Hee-Geun Nam; Ki Bong Lee; Sungyong Mun

Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.34, 21-21, February, 2016

DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2015.12.001 Export Citation

Adsorption behaviors of sugars and sulfuric acid on activated porous carbon

Kyong-Mok Park, Hee-Geun Nam, Ki Bong Lee^{1, †}, and Sungyong Mun^†

Department of Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, Republic of Korea
¹Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 136-713, Republic of Korea

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To investigate the suitability of activated porous carbon as the adsorbent for separation of sugars and sulfuric acid, the relevant adsorption equilibrium data were obtained by using a staircase frontal analysis method in the range of sulfuric acid concentration (0-13.61 g/L), glucose concentration (0-5.86 g/L), and xylose concentration (0-34.96 g/L). It was found from the resultant adsorption data that sugars had considerably higher adsorption affinities to activated porous carbon than sulfuric acid, which indicates that activated porous carbon has the potential to be utilized as an economical adsorbent for separation of sugars and sulfuric acid. It was also found that the resultant adsorption data could be well predicted by the Langmuir isotherm model.

Keywords:Activated porous carbon;Sugars;Sulfuric acid;Adsorption;Bio-ethanol

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