TY - GEN
T1 - Adsorption of bilirubin toxin in liver by chitosan coated activated carbon prepared from date pits
AU - Mwafy, Asel
AU - Seyedzadeh, Ameereh
AU - Ahmed, Waleed Khalil
AU - Ahmad, Basel Alsayyed
AU - Mathew, Betty
AU - Pandurangan, Kamala
AU - Mourad, Abdel Hamid Ismail
AU - Hilal-Alnaqbi, Ali
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The aim of this work was to develop activated carbon (AC) from date pit powder and evaluate its adsorption efficiency of bilirubin toxin. In order to increase the adsorption capacity of bilirubin, an increase in the surface area is necessary. This increase was achieved through pyrolysis technique and to further increase the absorption capacity of AC when coated with chitosan gel, which contains several groups on its chains that act as interaction sites. Results indicated that the presence of the AC lead to a decrease in bilirubin content and the more the AC added to the sample, the faster the rate of adsorption as well as the higher the capacity of adsorption. A 0.3 M AC concentration shows a 0.82 left over bilirubin fraction after 16 h, while a 0.1 M AC concentration shows a 0.9 bilirubin fraction after the same interval of time. Contact time is another factor that also contributed to the increase in adsorption of bilirubin. It was seen that chitosan coated AC shows an increase in adsorption percentage from about 25% to 96% when left for a longer period of time.
AB - The aim of this work was to develop activated carbon (AC) from date pit powder and evaluate its adsorption efficiency of bilirubin toxin. In order to increase the adsorption capacity of bilirubin, an increase in the surface area is necessary. This increase was achieved through pyrolysis technique and to further increase the absorption capacity of AC when coated with chitosan gel, which contains several groups on its chains that act as interaction sites. Results indicated that the presence of the AC lead to a decrease in bilirubin content and the more the AC added to the sample, the faster the rate of adsorption as well as the higher the capacity of adsorption. A 0.3 M AC concentration shows a 0.82 left over bilirubin fraction after 16 h, while a 0.1 M AC concentration shows a 0.9 bilirubin fraction after the same interval of time. Contact time is another factor that also contributed to the increase in adsorption of bilirubin. It was seen that chitosan coated AC shows an increase in adsorption percentage from about 25% to 96% when left for a longer period of time.
KW - Activated carbon
KW - Adsorption
KW - Chitosan coating
KW - Date pit
KW - Toxin
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-56148-6_21
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-56148-6_21
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85018705496
SN - 9783319561479
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 247
EP - 260
BT - Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering - 5th International Work-Conference, IWBBIO 2017, Proceedings
A2 - Rojas, Ignacio
A2 - Ortuno, Francisco
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 5th International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, IWBBIO 2017
Y2 - 26 April 2017 through 28 April 2017
ER -