1. Equipment/ instrument
Table 1. Analysis Methods and Instruments for Physicochemical Characterization of Ad3
Parameter
Equipment/ instrument
Analysis Method
Moisture
Hot air oven
Bureau of Indian Standards method (IS 877: 1989) [25]
Water soluble content
Weighing balance (AND, Model HR-200) pH
pH Meter (Deluxe 101 (EI))
Particle Size
IS Sieve & Sieve Shaker
Conductivity
Conductivity Meter (Systronic, Model 304)
Bureau of Indian Standards method (IS 14767: 2000) [26]
Ash
Muffle furnace (Tempo Instruments and Equipment Pvt. Ltd.)
European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) methods, 1986 [27]
Bulk density
Bulk Density apparatus (DBK )
Yield
El-Ashtoukhya et al., 2008
Calorific value
Digital Bomb Calorimeter (Rajdhani Scientific, Model: RSB 6)
Traces of elements
Coupled PlasmaOptical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES) (Model: VARIAN 720-ES)
Adsorbent nature and shape of crystals
X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) (BRUKER, Germany, Model: D8 ADVANCE)
Adsorbent morphology
Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) (HITACHI, Model: S- 4800TypeII), Coupled with Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) of BRUKER
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