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This paper discusses the influence of residence time and iron concentration factors on the impregnation yield for preparation of the carbon nanofiber supported iron material by incipient wetness impregnation. The samples were characterized by nitrogen physisorption, thermogravimetric analysis and electron spectroscopy techniques. The technique of effective impregnation was studied by atomic adsorption spectrophotometry. The results show that the morphology of the iron was distributed and well supported and the size of iron was in a wide range of 1μm to less than 2nm. The impregnation yield has been achieved 78% for 3 hours of residence time of 3%wt Fe/CNF sample with surface area of 102.292 m2/g.

The intrinsic surface of carbon nanofiber (CNF) is important for supported catalyst preparation. The surface changes due to various techniques applied such as N2thermal and HNO3oxidation methods. The combination of different analyses is to observe the internal structure through Raman spectroscope, textural properties via N2physisorption and morphology of CNF using transmission electron microscope or through quantification of oxygen containing groups by acid base titration. As results, an extension of residence time increases the amount of amorphous and damages the structure of mesoporous CNF texture unexpectedly. The change from hydrophobic to hydrophilic surface of CNF is due to the growing number of oxygen. The surface area of CNF by HNO3treatment method produces 115.14m2/g which is higher than that of using thermal method.