Adsorption of Cd Metal Using Active Carbon From Cacao Shell (Theobroma cacao)

Adsorpsi Logam Cd Menggunakan Arang Aktif dari Kulit Buah Coklat (Theobroma Cacao)

  • Serly J. Sekewael Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Pattimura-Indonesia
  • Jolantje Latupeirissa Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Pattimura-Indonesia
  • Rosalina Johannes Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Pattimura-Indonesia
Keywords: Activation carbon, adsorption of Cd metal, Freundlich isotherm.

Abstract

The study on production of activated carbon from cacao shell (Theobroma cacao) was conducted by added 4 M HCl as activating agent. The results show that acidity of solid carbon active before activated with adsorption weight is 3.2865x10-3 mol.g-1 and after activated is 3.5052x10-3 mol.g-1. Active carbon result is used for the application at adsorption Cd with some variantion, that are optimum concentration 20 ppm and optimum time 80 min. Cd adsorption from active carbon was analyzed by AAS. The results are coeficient correlation (r2) 100 % followed Freundlich isotherm with KF value was 9.994 and n was -0.982.

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Published
2015-01-31
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Sekewael, S.; Latupeirissa, J.; Johannes, R. Adsorption of Cd Metal Using Active Carbon From Cacao Shell (Theobroma Cacao). Indo. J. Chem. Res. 2015, 2, 197-204.