Adsorption of VOCs onto engineered carbon materials: A review
TL;DR: This review discusses recent research developments of VOC adsorption onto a variety of engineered carbonaceous adsorbents, including activated carbon, biochar, activated carbon fiber, carbon nanotube, graphene and its derivatives, carbon-silica composites, ordered mesoporous carbon, etc.
About: This article is published in Journal of Hazardous Materials.The article was published on 2017-09-15. It has received 915 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Adsorption & Activated carbon.
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TL;DR: This work provides a comprehensive review of recent research on various carbon adsorbents in terms of their surface functional groups and the associated removal behaviors and performances to heavy metals in aqueous solutions.
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TL;DR: In this article, the development of efficient adsorbents and catalysts for VOCs with varied nature are discussed, and the perspectives on the potential future directions of the adsorptive removal and catalytic oxidation of VOC are given.
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TL;DR: The source and production of biochar is summarized, its research status in the removal of organic pollutants is pointed out, the relevant adsorption parameters are introduced, its regeneration methods are summarizes, its application of engineering is studied, and the development prospects are described.
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TL;DR: An overview of VOCs adsorption mechanisms and up-to-date progress of modification technologies for different porous materials is provided to provide a comprehensive understanding of the mechanism of adsorbate-adsorbent interactions, modification methods for the mentioned porous materials, and enhancement of V OCs advertisersorption capacity.
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TL;DR: It can be concluded that biochar technology represents a new, cost effective, and environmentally-friendly solution for the treatment of wastewater.
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Abstract: THE synthesis of molecular carbon structures in the form of C60 and other fullerenes1 has stimulated intense interest in the structures accessible to graphitic carbon sheets. Here I report the preparation of a new type of finite carbon structure consisting of needle-like tubes. Produced using an arc-discharge evaporation method similar to that used for fullerene synthesis, the needles grow at the negative end of the electrode used for the arc discharge. Electron microscopy reveals that each needle comprises coaxial tubes of graphitic sheets, ranging in number from 2 up to about 50. On each tube the carbon-atom hexagons are arranged in a helical fashion about the needle axis. The helical pitch varies from needle to needle and from tube to tube within a single needle. It appears that this helical structure may aid the growth process. The formation of these needles, ranging from a few to a few tens of nanometres in diameter, suggests that engineering of carbon structures should be possible on scales considerably greater than those relevant to the fullerenes. On 7 November 1991, Sumio Iijima announced in Nature the preparation of nanometre-size, needle-like tubes of carbon — now familiar as 'nanotubes'. Used in microelectronic circuitry and microscopy, and as a tool to test quantum mechanics and model biological systems, nanotubes seem to have unlimited potential.
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TL;DR: A simple solution-based oxidative process for producing a nearly 100% yield of nanoribbon structures by lengthwise cutting and unravelling of multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) side walls is described.
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TL;DR: Due to complexity of soil-water system in nature, the effectiveness of biochars on remediation of various organic/inorganic contaminants is still uncertain.
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