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Preparation of Activated Carbon Fibers from Cost Effective Commercial Textile Grade Acrylic Fibers

  • Carbon Letters
  • Abbr : Carbon Lett.
  • 2011, 12(1), pp.44-47
  • Publisher : Korean Carbon Society
  • Research Area : Natural Science > Natural Science General > Other Natural Sciences General

Mekala Bikshapathi 1 Nishith Verma 1 Rohitashaw Kumar Singh 2 Harish Chandra Joshi 2 Anurag Srivastava 3

1Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
2Defence Materials and Stores Research & Devolopment Establishment
3Defence Materials and Stores Research & Development Establishment

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ABSTRACT

Activated carbon fibers (ACFs) were prepared from cost effective commercial textiles through stabilization, carbonization,and subsequently activation by carbon dioxide. ACFs were characterized for surface area and pore size distribution by physical adsorption of nitrogen at 77 K. ACFs were also examined for various surface characteristics by scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and CHNO elemental analyzer. The prepared ACFs exhibited good surface textural properties with well developed micro porous structure. With improvement in physical strength, the commercial textile grade acrylic precursor based ACFs developed in this study may have great utility as cost effective adsorbents in environmental remediation applications.

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