Regeneration of Activated Carbon Using Photo-Oxidation Process

       2014 Spring World Congress on Engineering and Technology (SCET 2014)——Activated carbon has been used as an adsorbent for centuries. For purpose of regeneration, advanced oxidation processes is suggested, this approach could be viable from the economic and environmental point of view, and appears as an alternative to the many of inefficient single-step processes actually applied for the regeneration process. The results showed that the Titanium dioxide can easily regenerate the AC by oxidizing the organic compounds adsorbed on the surface of AC. The increase of UV light intensity has a positive effect on the adsorption capacity. However, the increase of TiO2 concentrations have a small negative effect on the adsorption capacity of the AC.