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Effects of acid treatment on the improvement of specific capacitance and deionization efficiency of porous carbon electrodes

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Author(s)
Machunda, Revocatus L.; Jeon, Hongrae; Lee, Jae Kwang; Lee, Jae Young
Type
Article
Citation
Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, v.9, no.2, pp.159 - 165
Issued Date
2009-06
Abstract
We report the effect of acid treatment on porous carbon materials on their double layer capacitance and electrosorption of ions in capacitive deionization systems. The as-received activated carbon cloth (ACC) had the capacitance value of 210F/g and was markedly (∼175%) improved when treated with acid solution. Surface functional groups such as hydroxyl, quinines, lactones and ethers on carbon after modification were increased by 40% and 29% with HNO3 and H2SO4 respectively. In capacitive deionization test of NaCl solution, the ACC treated with HNO3 had more than two times removal efficiency when charged with a 1.5 V current than the untreated one. This is attributed to activation and changes of surface functional groups when charged with a current. © IWA Publishing 2009.
Publisher
International Water Association Publishing
ISSN
1606-9749
DOI
10.2166/ws.2009.252
URI
https://scholar.gist.ac.kr/handle/local/17056
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