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Microporous activated carbon from pinewood and wheat straw by microwave-assisted KOH treatment for the adsorption of toluene and acetone vapors

Haiyan Mao, Zaher Hashisho, Sunguo Wang, Heng Chen, Haiyan Wang, Masoud Jahandar Lashaki

RSC Advances · 2015 · 69 citations · 35 references

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Abstract

Pore size distribution of raw char, pinewood char activated with KOH/char mass ratios 0.5, 1.5 and 3.0 was explored.

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