A study on the efficiency of activated carbon as an adsorbent for the removal of carbon monoxide

Abstract

A Study on the Efficiency of Activated Carbon as an Adsorbent for the Removal of Carbon Monoxide is intended to determine the efficiency of activated carbon as a pollutant removal through adsorption processes. A system contain burning chamber and activated carbon packed column will be used in this study. Source of pollutant will be palm oil fiber and shell, the reason why palm oil has been chosen is because palm oil industry is one of the source of air pollution in agricultural based. Two different types of activated carbon used in this study are coconut shell, and palm oil shell based carbon. The efficiency of adsorption on palm shell and coconut shell based carbon is determined and moreover, the correlation between efficiency and flowrate had been done through this research. As a result, the performance of activated carbon had been figured out and for further application, study on activated carbon should be done more.