Mohd Nazri Idris

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy study on corrosion inhibition of benzyltriethylammonium chloride

Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) was employed to study the corrosion inhibition behavior of benzyltriethylammonium chloride (BTC) for carbon steel corrosion. The inhibition efficiency was investigated in 1.0 M HCl solution at room temperature (25°C) by varying the BTC concentration. EIS results indicated that the double layer capacitance of electrolyte/carbon steel interface decreases with the increasing of BTC concentration and consequently enhances the polarization resistance of equivalence Randles circuit. The results indicated that inhibition efficiency of as high as 65% could be achieved when 10mM BTC was present in 1.0 M HCl solution as compared to inhibitor-free solution. The inhibition process of BTC on the carbon steel corrosion was found to obey Langmuir adsorption isotherm. This study revealed that BTC is suitable to be used as a corrosion inhibitor in acid media.

Characterization of Potential Used Rubber Seed Coat Waste for the Removal of Remazol Brilliant Blue R Reactive Dye

In the present work, activated carbon was prepared from rubber seed coat by physicochemical activation for the removal of Remazol Brilliant Blue R (RBBR) dye from aqueous solution. The effects of dye initial concentration, contact time, solution temperature and pH on RBBR adsorption onto rubber seed coat based activated carbon (RSCAC) were investigated. The adsorption uptake was found to increase with increase in initial dye concentration and contact time. Change in temperature and pH also played an important role to RBBR adsorption capability. Study showed that rubber seed coat is suitable to be used as activated carbon precursor.

Optimization Process for Producing Mesopores Activated Carbon Based on Hevea Brasiliensis Seed Coat Using Response Surface Methodology

The conditions for the preparation of rubber (hevea brasiliensis) seed coat based activated carbon (RSCAC) treated with NaOH were optimized through response surface methodology (RSM). The effects of three preparation variables: the activation temperature, activation time and NaOH impregnation ratio (IR) on Remazol Brilliant Blue R (RBBR) removal from aqueous solutions and RSCAC yield were investigated. Based on the RSM, two quadratic models were respectively developed to correlate the preparation variables to the RBBR percentage removal and carbon yield. The significant factors on each experimental design response were identified from the analysis of variance (ANOVA). The optimum conditions for RSCAC preparation were obtained by using activation temperature of 700 °C, activation time of 1.0 h and IR of 1.0, which resulted in 70.82% of RBBR removal and 24.93% of RSCAC yield.