CELL 271 |
| Value added applications for the utilization of readily available and renewable broiler manure could help reduce a complicated disposal problem. Pelletized broiler litter was converted into granular activated carbons in a laboratory-scale furnace. The ability of these carbons to adsorb a suite of four different trihalomethanes in solution was investigated. Isotherm curves were generated by exposing varying amounts of carbon to 10 ppm-solutions each of chloroform, diclorobromomethane, dibromochloromethane and bromoform. Amount adsorbed was measured by two different gas chromatography methods. Purge and trap (P&T) and solid phase micro extraction methods, SPME coupled with mass spectrometric detection were used and compared to measure the amount of trihalomethanes remaining in solution after 24 hr batch adsorption studies. Results obtained from SPME and P&T were relatively similar in terms of reproducibility and sensitivity. |
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Renewable Chemicals from Plant and Animal-Based Agricultural Wastes
12:50 PM-4:45 PM, Thursday, April 10, 2008 Morial Convention Center -- Rm. R07, Oral
Division of Cellulose & Renewable Materials |