eprintid: 10961 rev_number: 2 eprint_status: archive userid: 1 dir: disk0/00/01/09/61 datestamp: 2023-11-09 16:37:34 lastmod: 2023-11-09 16:37:34 status_changed: 2023-11-09 16:32:36 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Kong, H. creators_name: Cheu, S.C. creators_name: Othman, N.S. creators_name: Song, S.T. creators_name: Johari, K. creators_name: Saman, N. creators_name: Lye, J.W.P. creators_name: Mat, H. title: Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide-coated agrosorbents and their high benzene adsorption performance from aqueous solution ispublished: pub keywords: Adsorption; Benzene; Coatings; Infrared spectrophotometers; Mercerization; Meteorological instruments; Reaction kinetics; Scanning electron microscopy; Spectrophotometers; Surface active agents, Agro-wastes; American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromides; Energy dispersive x-ray; Field emission scanning electron microscopes; Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometers; Pseudo second order; Rate-limiting steps, Solutions note: cited By 5 abstract: Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide-coated agrosorbents were successfully synthesized through firstly mercerization of raw banana trunk (Raw-BT) with alkali (M-BT) and finally coating with cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (M-CTAB-BT). The characterization was done using an energy dispersive X-ray spectrophotometer, a Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer and a field emission scanning electron microscope. The Brunauer, Emmett, and Teller analysis was also conducted. The benzene adsorption performance of BT agrosorbents was improved by mercerization and surfactant coating according to the following order: Raw-BT (340.25 � 10�mmol/g) < CTAB-BT (382.41 � 10�3 mmol/g) < M-CTAB-BT (535.62 � 10�3mmol/g). The adsorption data obeyed the Langmuir and pseudo-second order (PSO) kinetic models with film diffusion as the rate-limiting step. The agrosorbent regeneration as well as comparison to literature data indicated the modified BT and thus the agrowaste biomass could be alternative agrosorbent precursors for removing benzene from aqueous solutions. © 2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environ Prog, 37: 305�317, 2018. © 2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environ Prog. date: 2018 publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc. official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85022071261&doi=10.1002%2fep.12678&partnerID=40&md5=0f441e2351e29d7ca8a68e3880dffbd2 id_number: 10.1002/ep.12678 full_text_status: none publication: Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy volume: 37 number: 1 pagerange: 305-317 refereed: TRUE issn: 19447442 citation: Kong, H. and Cheu, S.C. and Othman, N.S. and Song, S.T. and Johari, K. and Saman, N. and Lye, J.W.P. and Mat, H. (2018) Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide-coated agrosorbents and their high benzene adsorption performance from aqueous solution. Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy, 37 (1). pp. 305-317. ISSN 19447442