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The selected gases included polar gases (hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and ammonia (NH3)) and non-polar gases (acetaldehyde (AA), methyl mercaptan (MM), and trimethylamine (TMA))). Commercial activated carbon with a specific surface area of 2276 m2\/g was used as the adsorbent. For the removal of odor from medical waste, we investigated: (1) the effective adsorption capacity of a single gas (&lt;1 ppm), (2) the effect of the adsorbed NH3 gas concentration and flow rate, and (3) the desorption rate using NH3 gas. The values of the effective adsorption capacity of the single gas were in the following order: H2S &lt; NH3 &lt; AA &lt; MM &lt; TMA, at 0.2, 4.2, 6.3, 6.6, and 35.7 mg\/g, respectively. The results indicate that polar gases have a lower effective adsorption capacity than that of non-polar gases, and that the size of the gas molecules and effective adsorption capacity exhibit a proportional relationship. The effective adsorption performance of NH3 gas showed an increasing trend with NH3 concentration. Therefore, securing optimal conditions for adsorption\/desorption is imperative for the highly efficient removal of odor from medical waste.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/molecules28020785","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,13]],"date-time":"2023-01-13T02:57:33Z","timestamp":1673578653000},"page":"785","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Adsorption Capacity and Desorption Efficiency of Activated Carbon for Odors from Medical Waste"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"28","author":[{"given":"Jung Eun","family":"Park","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Bio Resource, Institute for Advanced Engineering, Yongin-si 17180, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eun Seo","family":"Jo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Bio Resource, Institute for Advanced Engineering, Yongin-si 17180, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gi Bbum","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Bio Resource, Institute for Advanced Engineering, Yongin-si 17180, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sang Eun","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Bio Resource, Institute for Advanced Engineering, Yongin-si 17180, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bum-Ui","family":"Hong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Bio Resource, Institute for Advanced Engineering, Yongin-si 17180, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Dharmaraj, S., Ashokkumar, V., Pandiyan, R., Munawaroh, H.S.H., Chew, K.W., Chen, W.-H., and Ngamcharussrivichai, C. 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