Mg/Si- and Ag-Doped Carbon-Based Media Rainwater Filtration System for Multiple Pollutants Removal
So Yeon Yoon, Hyeseong Kim, Reneesha Valiyaveettil Basheer, Nurhaslina Abd Rahman, Seok Byum Jang, Kien Tiek Wong, Deok Hyun Moon, Choe Earn Choong, Min Jang · 2024
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Description
So Yeon Yoon and co-authors build a rainwater filter from palm waste carbon in a 2024 study. Rainwater can carry heavy metals, organic pollutants, and gut germs, so it needs cleaning before use. Their cartridge stacks three forms of activated carbon made from palm shells: plain carbon, carbon doped with magnesium and silicon, and carbon doped with silver.
The magnesium-silicon layer added surface area and binding sites, which lifted heavy metal capture. In column tests that mimic a working filter, the full cartridge beat plain carbon and a commercial carbon. It removed one and a half to two times more Escherichia coli germs, and more metals and organics as well. The silver layer added disinfection. The authors present the system as a single pass answer for rainwater with mixed pollution.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | So Yeon Yoon, Hyeseong Kim, Reneesha Valiyaveettil Basheer, Nurhaslina Abd Rahman, Seok Byum Jang, Kien Tiek Wong, Deok Hyun Moon, Choe Earn Choong, Min Jang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |