TY - GEN
T1 - Bio char production from sugar cane bagasse and its application sugarcane processing wastewater treatment
AU - Manyuchi, M. M.
AU - Mbohwa, Charles
AU - Muzenda, E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/3
Y1 - 2020/3
N2 - The sugar producing industry generates tons of bagasse as a waste product. This bagasse has the potential to be converted to bio char. In this study, sugarcane bagasse was converted to bio char at 600 C for 3 hours and a heating rate of 10 C/min using the pyrolysis technology. A bio char yield of 75%was achieved with a surface area of 500 m2/g and a particle size of <2mm. The bio char was used as anadsorbent media in sugarcane wastewater and the changes in the pH, biological oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD), total nitrogen (Tot-N), total phosphate (Tot-P) and the total solids(TS) were monitored using standard methods. Application of the bagasse based bio char in sugarcanewastewater treatment resulted in the significant reduction of BOD, COD, Tot-N, Tot-P and TS by85.1%, 84.8%, 74.8%, 76.5% and 84.7% respectively.
AB - The sugar producing industry generates tons of bagasse as a waste product. This bagasse has the potential to be converted to bio char. In this study, sugarcane bagasse was converted to bio char at 600 C for 3 hours and a heating rate of 10 C/min using the pyrolysis technology. A bio char yield of 75%was achieved with a surface area of 500 m2/g and a particle size of <2mm. The bio char was used as anadsorbent media in sugarcane wastewater and the changes in the pH, biological oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD), total nitrogen (Tot-N), total phosphate (Tot-P) and the total solids(TS) were monitored using standard methods. Application of the bagasse based bio char in sugarcanewastewater treatment resulted in the significant reduction of BOD, COD, Tot-N, Tot-P and TS by85.1%, 84.8%, 74.8%, 76.5% and 84.7% respectively.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85088939494
SN - 9781532359491
SN - 9781532359514
SN - 9781532359521
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
SP - 2900
EP - 2906
BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
PB - IEOM Society
T2 - 10th Annual International IEOM Conference, IEOM 2020
Y2 - 10 March 2020 through 12 March 2020
ER -