Charging of oil components by caustic soda to prepare activated charcoal
Abstract
The study aimed to produce activated carbon by gradual heating to about 550C for 4hr. The mixture consist of 1:2 ( residual petroleum: sodium hydroxide) The residual petroleum used was the atmospheric residual from Hammam AL-AIil in the northen of Iraq. The prepared activated carbon gives good results for the adsorption of iodine No. and methylene blue in comparson to synthetic carbon . Another characters for activated carbon were studied like ash content and density.