Abstract:
Biomass recovery is very important in agricultural waste management as it solves the
waste disposal problems effectively by not disposing the wastes through current
disposal method like landfilling and incineration. The current disposal method
produces secondary pollution like leachate, smog and ash which need further
treatment. In this experiment, the waste banana peel was converted into activated
carbon by chemical activation using microwave pyrolysis. The chemical activation
using potassium hydroxide and sodium hydroxide increases the pore size distribution
on the surface of activated carbon. The effect of microwave power towards
microwave pyrolysis was studied at several microwave power adjustment (300W,
500W and 700W) to determine highly porous activated carbon.
