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Development of Water Treatment Sachets Using Artocarpus Integer’s
Seeds via Activated Carbon Route
Raihan binti Ramli
Supervisor: Dr. Hidayatul Aini Zakaria
Bachelor of Applied Sciences (Electronics and Instrumentation Physics)
School of Ocean Engineering
This research presented the preparation of activated carbon from Artocarpus Integer’s
seed. Currently, water treatment using chemical was used which can give effect to
human health, so to reduce the chemical usage we can used natural resources as
activated carbon.To find the optimum physical characteristics of activated carbon,
carbonization temperature(400ºC) and duration time(1,2,4 hours) was used.FTIR
showed functional group for activated carbon and conventional activated carbon are
similar.XRD showed activated carbon and conventional activated carbon are
amorphous. BET showed conventional activated carbon have larger surface area than
activated carbon from Artocarpus Integer.SEM showed pore size of activation carbon
was larger than conventional activated carbon. Turbidity meter showed the
concentration of suspended particles before was 490 NTU changed 100 NTU after
several minutes. The result showed that Artocarpus Integer’s seed was a capable
activated carbon. For the future, activated carbon from Artocarpus Integer can be
used for the water treatment method.
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