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Volume 3, Issue 2 (Suppl)
Trends in Green chem
ISSN: 2471-9889
Environmental & Green Chemistry 2017
July 24-26, 2017
Page 116
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International Conference on
July 24-26, 2017 Rome, Italy
Environmental Chemistry and Engineering
Green Chemistry and Technology
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Green activated carbons for mercury removal
George Z Kyzas
and
Athanasios C Mitropoulos
Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Greece
A
ctivated carbons are considered to be the most successful adsorbent materials due to their high adsorption capacity for the
majority of pollutants (dyes, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, phenols, etc). They possess large surface area, and different
surface functional groups, which include carboxyl, carbonyl, phenol, quinone, lactone and other groups bound to the edges
of the graphite-like layers. Therefore, they are regarded as good adsorbents both in liquid and gas phases. The most widely
used carbonaceous materials for the industrial production of activated carbons are coal, wood and coconut shell. These types
of precursors are quite expensive and often imported, in many places; hence making it necessary, particularly for developing
countries, to find a cheap and available feedstock for the preparation of activated carbon for use in industry, drinking water
purification and wastewater treatment. In order to reduce the synthesis cost of activated carbons, some green final products are
recently proposed, using several suitable agricultural by-products (lignocellulosics) - i.e. including olive-waste cakes, cattle-
manure compost, bamboo materials, apple pulp, potato peel - as activated carbon precursors. In this work, special attention
is given to those activated carbons (synthesis, and adsorption applications) which can be characterized as “green” because
their origin are green environmental-friendly sources. The application of the prepared carbons was for mercury removal from
aqueous solutions.
Biography
George Z Kyzas obtained his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). His current interests include the synthesis of various
adsorbent materials for the treatment of wastewaters (dyes, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, phenols, etc). He has published significant scientific papers, books
(as Author and/or Editor), chapters in books, teaching notes and reports. He also acted as Guest Editor in Special issues of journals and presented many works in
international conferences. He has been awarded with honors, grants and fellowships for his research career/profile by (i) Research Committee of Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki (2009, 2013), (ii) National State Scholarships Foundation of Greece (2013) and (iii) Stavros Niarchos Foundation (2016).
georgekyzas@gmail.comGeorge Z Kyzas et al., Trends in Green chem, 3:2
DOI: 10.21767/2471-9889-C1-003