Mitigation of BTEX occurring during the storage of Poultry Litter using Nanomaterials and Statistical Analysis

Adsorption capacities of nanomaterials is the main reason why they are effective in the gas treatment. Treatment of the gases formed in poutry manure with graphene oxide, single-walled carbon nanotube, multi-walled carbon, activated carbon and graphite is the aim of this paper. Since the most common pollutant relased from manure storage is volatile organic compounds, such as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene being VOCs was analized during 84 days, in the study. The VOC holding capacities of different materials in different cabinets were examined. The adsorbent material performances between the cabinets were compared statistically such as Manny-Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis H, Wilcoxon. It was concluded that in the case of adding additional carbon nanotubes, a decrease in pollutant emission was observed, but the use of different materials did not cause a difference in pollutant release between benzene, toluene, xylene and ethylbenzene.