Removing Oil Impurity by Using Biomass Cell of Water Hyacinth

Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is one of the world’s worst invasive aquatic plant which often found covered the river and pound. Recently, some studies show the feasibility of water hyacinth as oil sorbent for oil spill clean-up. Compare to its leaf and root, the stem of water hyacinth has...

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Main Author: Abdillah, Fauziah
Format: Final Year Project
Language: English
Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas
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Published: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2016
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spelling utp-utpedia.225312022-02-14T07:10:49Z http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/22531/ Removing Oil Impurity by Using Biomass Cell of Water Hyacinth Abdillah, Fauziah TP Chemical technology Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is one of the world’s worst invasive aquatic plant which often found covered the river and pound. Recently, some studies show the feasibility of water hyacinth as oil sorbent for oil spill clean-up. Compare to its leaf and root, the stem of water hyacinth has the highest oil sorption capacity and buoyancy, even though has the smallest surface area. Increasing its surface area may result in higher sorption capacity. Active surface area can be potentially increased by treating the stem either physically, chemically or both. This study is aimed to increased surface area of water hyacinth’s stem by treating it with 3% of Hydrochloric acid (HCl). The characteristics of HCl treated sorbent and non-treated were compared and their sorption capacity towards diesel, gasoline, toluene, and hexane were also analysed in this study. Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2016-01 Final Year Project NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/22531/1/FauziahAbdillah_17778_Full.pdf Abdillah, Fauziah (2016) Removing Oil Impurity by Using Biomass Cell of Water Hyacinth. Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. (Submitted)
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Abdillah, Fauziah
Removing Oil Impurity by Using Biomass Cell of Water Hyacinth
description Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is one of the world’s worst invasive aquatic plant which often found covered the river and pound. Recently, some studies show the feasibility of water hyacinth as oil sorbent for oil spill clean-up. Compare to its leaf and root, the stem of water hyacinth has the highest oil sorption capacity and buoyancy, even though has the smallest surface area. Increasing its surface area may result in higher sorption capacity. Active surface area can be potentially increased by treating the stem either physically, chemically or both. This study is aimed to increased surface area of water hyacinth’s stem by treating it with 3% of Hydrochloric acid (HCl). The characteristics of HCl treated sorbent and non-treated were compared and their sorption capacity towards diesel, gasoline, toluene, and hexane were also analysed in this study.
format Final Year Project
author Abdillah, Fauziah
author_sort Abdillah, Fauziah
title Removing Oil Impurity by Using Biomass Cell of Water Hyacinth
title_short Removing Oil Impurity by Using Biomass Cell of Water Hyacinth
title_full Removing Oil Impurity by Using Biomass Cell of Water Hyacinth
title_fullStr Removing Oil Impurity by Using Biomass Cell of Water Hyacinth
title_full_unstemmed Removing Oil Impurity by Using Biomass Cell of Water Hyacinth
title_sort removing oil impurity by using biomass cell of water hyacinth
publisher Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
publishDate 2016
url http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/22531/1/FauziahAbdillah_17778_Full.pdf
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