Effects of Influent Concentration and Flow Rate on the Sorption of Diesel Molecules on Kapok Fibers at Dynamic Conditions

Abstract:

Kapok fibers were used as a filtering medium in a column-type filtration set-up to separate diesel from water molecules in dynamic conditions. The amount of diesel flowing out the filtration system with respect to time was monitored. The times wherein the diesel first came out the filtering system (breakthrough time) were shorter at higher influent concentration and faster flow rate. Meanwhile, the total sorbed diesel molecules in the filtering system were increasing with the influent concentration while invariant with flow rate. The shorter breakthrough time was associated with the higher amount of diesel molecules that could be sorbed at a shorter time and the rate at which the overall processes of sorption-desorption-resorption proceeded. On the other hand, the sorption capacity of the system was viewed to be affected by the amount of moving diesel molecules that would interact with the kapok fibers and/or surface-sorbed diesel molecules but not by the contact time.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 902)
• Pages: 127-132
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.902.127
• Online since: October 2021
• Authors: Marvin U. Herrera*, Ronniel D. Manalo, Monet Concepcion Maguyon-Detras, Mary Donnabelle L. Balela
• Keywords: Breakthrough Time, Filtration System, Kapok Fibers, Oil Sorption, Oil-Water Separation

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