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Orange tree leaves, a perfect adsorbent for the removal of Cd (II), Co (II), Zn (II) from wastewater
- Source :
- Chemical Industry and Chemical Engineering Quarterly, Vol 25, Iss 2, Pp 107-117 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Association of the Chemical Engineers of Serbia, 2019.
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Abstract
- The present study explores the uptake capacity of low-cost agricultural waste for the removal of heavy metals, Co2+, Cd2+ and Zn2+, from aqueous solution. Studies conformed to Freundlich, Langmuir and Temkin adsorption isotherms. The values of constants for the thermodynamic and kinetic isotherms were found. The kinetic isotherm experiment data could be well described with the pseudo-second order kinetic model and thermodynamic studies indicated that the adsorption processes were spontaneous and endothermic with orange tree leaves under natural conditions. Experiments showed that Cd2+, Co2+ and Zn2+ adsorption increased with increasing pH and decreased with increasing the temperature and concentration of solutions. This study indicates that the developed method based on orange tree leaves is very simple, low-cost, fast and trusty for the removal of heavy metal ions from water and wastewater samples.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14519372 and 22177434
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Chemical Industry and Chemical Engineering Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.96a4f6a7bcc94879aea323c7cbd7a65c
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2298/CICEQ180219024N