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Development of Activated Carbon Derived from Artocarpus heterophyllus
(Jackfruit) Seed
Nurul Syiffa Binti Ishak
Supervisor: Dr. Hidayatul Aini Binti Zakaria
Applied Science (Electronic and Instrumentation Physics)
School of Ocean Engineering
Due to the presence of impurities in water, some treatments were required to remove
them to avoid the effect of consuming untreated water. Currently, Alum is used as
water treatment material which causes harm after a prolonged consumption. Activated
carbon is one of the common materials used for water treatment. Based on previous
studies, Artocarpus heterophyllus’s leaves and peels have shown positive results on
treating wastewater. In this project, the seeds of Artocarpus heterophyllus’s was used
as activated carbon material and tested on kaolin synthetic wastewater. The
effectiveness of the sample was tested by using turbidity meter. The characteristic
analysis of samples is done by Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Fourier Transform
Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) analysis and X-ray
Diffraction (XRD). It is found that the effectiveness of the wastewater treatment
increases with samples of smaller particle size and optimum heating time is required
to allow production of pores.
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