Publications by authors named "Vitor A Duarte"

The present paper reports the application of augmented simplex-centroid mixture design to obtain a high BET surface area activated carbon using as reactants KOH, KCO and KCO. The optimum mixture composition was 2.51 g of KOH, 0.

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A super activated carbon (SAC) was produced by KOH-activation of a biomass waste for paracetamol (PCT) adsorption from aqueous solution and for adsorption-thermal regeneration cycles. The SAC and the regenerated SAC after five adsorption-regeneration cycles (RSAC-5th) were fully characterized by several techniques. The N physisorption showed that the S values of the SAC and RSAC-5th are remarkably different, being 2794 m² g and 889 m² g, respectively.

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