Research Article
Synthesis and Characterisation of Activated Carbon from Tea Waste for Super Capacitor
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.7-12-2021.2314736, author={Senthil Kumar A}, title={Synthesis and Characterisation of Activated Carbon from Tea Waste for Super Capacitor}, proceedings={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Combinatorial and Optimization, ICCAP 2021, December 7-8 2021, Chennai, India}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICCAP}, year={2021}, month={12}, keywords={activated carbon electrodes functional group micro structure particle size supercapacitors}, doi={10.4108/eai.7-12-2021.2314736} }- Senthil Kumar A
Year: 2021
Synthesis and Characterisation of Activated Carbon from Tea Waste for Super Capacitor
ICCAP
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.7-12-2021.2314736
Abstract
Supercapacitors are considered as anenergy storage device whereincharge transfer takes place without chemical reactions and it is more environmentally friendly in nature. In this present work, activated carbon was prepared from the tea waste by means of activation process using an activating agent like Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH). The obtained activated carbon powders were systematically studies from X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) to know the structure of activated carbon,Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)studies to revealthe surface morphology of activated carbon and the existence of pores formed after the activation process. HRTEManalysis shows that how complex is the structure with carbon layers and their atomic packing.FTIR analysis was carried out to know their functional group. Hence activated carbon prepared through chemical activation process from tea waste can bea better choiceas an electrode material for supercapacitor.