Synthesis and Characterization of Biochars from Textile Sludge Precursors

Oil pollution is considered as one of the major problem to the sea and also public watercourse. Oil pollution give bad effects to many aspects like to marine life, water treatment system and overall aquatic ecosystem. Thus, this study is focusing on the oil pollution treatment by using adsorption process. For that purpose, this study investigated the potential of textile sludge (TS) which considered as abundant sludge as a source of biochars. Biochars (BC) from textile sludge was prepared by carbonization at different temperatures; 105 °C, 200 °C, 400 °C, and 700 °C. The synthesized biochars; BC105, BC200, BC400, BC700 was characterized using FTIR spectroscopy and BET surface area. The results obtained from characterization showed that BC700 showed the highest BET surface area, 161.9945m2/g while, the highest percentage yield of biochar was obtained at temperature 105 °C with 98.20%. From FTIR results, BC700 showed less peaks which indicated less presence of functional groups compared to BC105, BC200 and BC400 due to decomposition of raw textile sludge wastes at high elevated temperature. The characterization results also showed that BCs produced from textile sludge wastes have potential for oil pollution treatment.