Removal of metals from electroplating wastes using banana pith

Low, Kun She; Lee, Chnoong Kheng; Leo, A. C.

doi:10.1016/0960-8524(94)00123-i

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“…Recently, agricultural by-products have been widely studied for sequestering of metals from water including peat [29], wood [30], pine bark [31], banana pith [32], rice bran, soybean and cottonseed hulls [33], peanut shells [34], hazelnut shell [35], rice husk [36], sawdust [37], wool [38], orange peel and compost [39] and leaves [40]. Most of this work has approved that natural products could be perfect adsorbents for heavy metals [26].…”

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Sesame Husk as Adsorbent for Copper(II) Ions Removal from Aqueous Solution

El-Araby¹,

Ibrahim²,

Mangood³

et al. 2017

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In this study, the adsorption behavior of copper(II) ions from aqueous solutions onto sesame husk (SH) was investigated. The effect of different parameters such as pH, contact time, adsorbent dosage, adsorbate concentration, temperature and agitation speed was studied. Thermodynamic parameters, equilibrium isotherms and kinetic data have been evaluated. The functional groups and surface morphology of SH adsorbent were characterized by FTIR and SEM. Adsorption equilibrium isotherms were expressed by Langmuir, Freundlich and Dubinin-Radushkevich (D-R) adsorption models and it was found that Langmuir adsorption model fits the experimental data better than Freundlich and D-R models. The adsorption can be best described by the pseudo second-order kinetic model.

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Sesame Husk as Adsorbent for Copper(II) Ions Removal from Aqueous Solution

El-Araby¹,

Ibrahim²,

Mangood³

et al. 2017

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“…These adsorbents are abundant and relatively cheap. These adsorbents have been used in the adsorptive removal of heavy metals such as maize cob and husk (Igwe and Abia, 2003;Igwe, et al, 2005b), sunflower stalks (Gang and Weixing, 1998), chemically modified and unmodified cassava waste biomass , sawdust (Igwe, et al, 2006), bacterial algal Holan, 1995, Figurerira, et al, 2000), fungal biomass (Guibal, et al, 1992), chitosan and N-carboxymethyl chitosan (Guibal, et al, 1998;Ngah and Liang, 1998), Pillared clay (Vinod and Anirudhan, 2001), sago waste (Quek, et al, 1998), banana pith (Low, et al, 1995), sawdust (Raji and Anirudhan, 1997), Medicago sativa (Alfalfa) (Gardea-Torresdey, et al, 1998), spagnum peat moss (Ho, et al, 1995) and so on. In the present study, the kinetics of sorption of Hg (II) As (III) and Pb (II) onto modified and unmodified coconut fiber was studied at th e optimum pH 7.5 and the temperature 30 ºC.…”

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Adsorption kinetics and intraparticulate diffusivities of Hg, As and Pb ions on unmodified and thiolated coconut fiber

Igwe

Abia

Ibeh

2007

Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

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ABSTRACT:As, Hg and Pb are examples of heavy metals which are present in different types of industrial effluents responsible for environmental pollution. Their removal is traditionally made by chemical precipitation, ion-exchange and so on. However, this is expensive and not completely feasible to reduce their concentrations to the levels as low as required by the environmental legislation. Biosorption is a process in which solids of natural origin are employed for binding the heavy metal. It is a promising alternative method to treat industrial effluents, mainly because of its low cost and high metal binding capacity. The kinetics was studied for biosorption experiments using coconut fiber for As (III), Hg (II) and Pb (II) ions adsorption. The specific surface area and surface charge density of the coconut fiber are 1.186x10 25 (m 2 /g) and 5.39 x10 24 (meq/m 2 ), respectively. The maximum adsorption capacity was found to be the highest for Pb (II) followed by Hg (II) and As (III). The modification of the adsorbent by thiolation affected the adsorption capacity. Equilibrium sorption was reached for the metal ions at about 60 min. The equilibrium constant and free energy of the adsorption at 30 ºC were calculated. The mechanism of sorption was found to obey the particlediffusion model. The kinetic studies showed that the sorption rates could be described by both pseudo first-order and pseudo second-order models. The pseudo second-order model showed a better fit with a rate constant value of 1.16 x 10 -4 /min. for all three metal ions. Therefore, the results of this study show that coconut fiber, both modified and unmodified, is an efficient adsorbent for the removal of toxic and valuable metals from industrial effluents. Key words: Adsorption kinetics, intraparticulate diffusivity, heavy metal, coconut fiber, waste management INTRODUCTIONAs, Hg and Pb have detrimental effects on human, plants and animals. The toxicity of these heavy metals to marine life and consequently to man has been established for many years. The sources of As pollution come from discharges of various industries, such as smelting, petroleum-refining, pesticides, herbicide, glass and ceramic manufacturing industries (Volesky and Holan, 1995). Pb pollution particularly results from battery manufacturing, automobile exhaust fumes and metal finishing industries. Hg pollution results from metallurgical industries, chemical manufacturing and metal finishing industries. Other sources of these heavy metals also exist and these have increased as a result of an increase in urbanization and industrialization. The chemistry of these heavy metals is complex and interesting,

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“…Various biomass materials and agricultural by-products have been utilized in the removal of toxic heavy metals from waste water, such as; sunflower stalks (Sun and Shi, 1998), coconut fibre and sawdust (Raji and Anirudhan, 1997;Igwe et al 2005), maize cob , cassava waste , banana pith (Low et al 1995) medicago sativa (Alfalfa) (Gardea-Torresdey et al 1998), Sphagnum moss peat (Ho et al 1995), Fungal, bacteria, algae (Kapoor and Viraraghavan, 1995;Puranik and Paknikar, 1999;Yang and Volesky, 1999;Davis et al 2000;Figueira et al 2000;Aksu, 2001;Hussein et al 2003;Liu et al 2004) and so on. The present article reports the feasibility of utilizing maize husk as a low cost adsorbent material for the removal of toxic heavy metal ions from waste water.…”

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Equilibrium sorption isotherm studies of Cd(II), Pb(II) and Zn(II) ions detoxification from waste water using unmodified and EDTA-modified maize husk

Igwe¹,

Abia²

2007

Electron. J. Biotechnol.

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The mobilization of heavy metals in the environment due to industrial activities is of serious concern due to the toxicity of these metals in humans and other forms of life. The equilibrium adsorption isotherms of Cd(II), Pb(II) and Zn(II) ions, detoxification from waste water using unmodified and EDTA-modified maize husk have been studied. Maize husk was found to be an excellent adsorbent for the removal of these metal ions. The amount of these metal ions adsorbed increased as the initial concentration increased. Also, EDTAmodification enhanced the adsorption capacity of maize husk due to the chelating ability of ethylenediamine tetra acetic acid (EDTA). Among the three adsorption isotherms tested, Dubinin-Radushkevich isotherm gave the best fit with R 2 value ranging from 0.7646 to 0.9988 and an average value of 0.9321. This is followed by Freundlich and then Langmiur isotherms. The sorption process was found to be mostly a physiosorption process as seen from the apparent energy of adsorption which ranged from 1.03 KJ/mol to 12.91 KJ/mol. Therefore, this study demonstrates that maize husk which is an environmental pollutant could be used to adsorb heavy metals and achieve environmental cleanliness.

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Removal of metals from electroplating wastes using banana pith

Cited by 177 publications

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Sesame Husk as Adsorbent for Copper(II) Ions Removal from Aqueous Solution

Sesame Husk as Adsorbent for Copper(II) Ions Removal from Aqueous Solution

Adsorption kinetics and intraparticulate diffusivities of Hg, As and Pb ions on unmodified and thiolated coconut fiber

Equilibrium sorption isotherm studies of Cd(II), Pb(II) and Zn(II) ions detoxification from waste water using unmodified and EDTA-modified maize husk

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