Removal of Copper from Water Solutions by Adsorption on Spruce Sawdust

Abstract

Pollution of water by toxic elements is one of the major factors of concern for human health, as well as for environmental quality, and draws a large amount of scientific attention. New and cheaper methods of wastewater treatment are increasing the quality of the environment and reducing the negative impacts on fauna, flora, and human beings. The sorption technique is considered a cost effective method for effectively removing heavy metals. During the past few years, there have been increasing studies dedicated to using low-cost adsorbents like bark, tannin-rich materials, lignin, chitosan peat moss, and sawdust. The presented paper describes the adsorption behavior of spruce wood sawdust. In order to determine its applicability for wastewater treatment, copper removal from model solutions was studied.

Steam explosion process for the selective extraction of hemicelluloses polymers from spruce sawdust

“…Spruce sawdust is a low cost industrial waste material available in large quantities (El-Saied et al, 2017;Kovacova et al, 2019). In native softwood, the dominant hemicelluloses are acetyl-galactoglucomannan (Ac-GGM) amounting to 14 -20% of wood (Willför et al, 2008;Xu et al, 2010) and arabinoglucuronoxylans (AGX) for approximatively 10%.…”

A Review on Removal of Heavy Metals from Water by Adsorption

“…Kovacova et. al., (2019) [21] Sawdust is an agricultural waste material that is available in large quantities, has a low cost, and is easily regenerated after use. This adsorbent was characterized by FTIR to determine the changes after the adsorption.…”