Preparation and Development of a Novel Activated Carbon based on Moroccan Oil Shale Using Activation Process

The objective of this study is the optimization of experimental conditions and the identification of various parameters influencing the preparation of the activated carbon using activation process. The results obtained throughout this work confirm good adsorption capacity of the activated carbon based on Moroccan oil shale. The (SEM) and (FTIR) analysis were used to confirm the adsorption performance of activated carbon from oil shale. Moreover, the Langmuir isotherm showed the best fit with experimental data, the maximum adsorption capacity of cadmium (II) ions was determined to be 55.87 mg/g. The kinetics analysis illustrates that the adsorption processes can be described by the pseudo-first order model.