CONTRASITIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN MANGANESE DIOXIDE AND ZINC

OXIDE GRAFTED ON ACTIVATED CARBON FIBER ELECTRODES IN

CAPACITIVE DEIONIZATION OF BRACKISH WATER DESALINATION

Water cleanliness and quality have always been a problem to one's

health. As it is essential for daily living, consuming dirty water brings great risk
on human's. Lack of freshwater resources to meet water demand is also an
arising problem that has a great impact on farming and growing crops. Waster
Scarcity was listed as one of the global risks by World Economic Forum in
2019. As for this reason, the researchers are proposing a comparative study
beween manganese dioxide and zinc oxide grafted on activated carbon fiber
electrodes in capacitive deionization of brackish water desalination Both
manganese dioxide and zinc oxide showed potential on removing inorganic
and organic compounds on water from past studies, The main objective of this
study is to know which grafted activated carbon fiber will enhance the
desalination and capacitive deionization of the brackish water for it to be
suitable for drinking ard farming.
 Review of Related Literature

According on a journal written by Myint, M.t.2, Al-Harth,S.H. and Dutta, J.

(2014). Their study showed that Zinc Oxide microsheet grafted on activated
carbon cloth enhanced salt removal efficiency if 22% as well as Zinc Oxide
nanorod grafted on activated carbon cloth.

In accordance with the study, Electrodeposited Manganese

Dioxide/Activated Carbon Composite as a high-performance Electrode
material for Capacitive Deionization by Liu, Y, Hsi,H, Li , K, and Heu, C. (2016).
In their study, a superior electroabsorbtion capacity of 9.3 mg g-1 was
presented by MnO₂ /AC composite electrode which was approximately 1.6 fold
higher than pure AC electrodes. They concluded that the electrodeposited
MnO₂ / AC composite is a potential electrode material for high performance
CDI.

As stated on Development of Novel MnO₂ / nonporous carbon

composite Electrodes in Capacitive Deionization Technology by Hao, Z., Song,
H., Yang-J., and Zou, L. (2011). It showed the capacitance of MnO₂ / carbon
composites was higher then AC. It was also concluded that MnO₂ film
provided a high surface adsorption capability and an effective cation
intercalation.

Based from Fabrication of Zinc Oxide Nanorode modified activated

carbon cloth electrode for Desalination of blackish water using capacitive
deionization approach conducted by Ai-Harthi, S.H., Dutta, J., and Myint,
M.T.Z. (2012), ACC modified with Zinc Oxide enhanced salt removal or the
desalination and regeneration efficiency.