Biosorption of Ni (II) using alkaline-treated rice husk

Rice husk has been widely reported as a good sorbent for heavy metals. Pretreatment of rice husk minimizes cellulose crystallinity and increases the surface area thus ensuring better adsorption capacity. Commercial base and natural base-treated rice husk were used to investigate the potential of Ni...

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Main Author: Simarani, K.
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Published: 2015
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spelling um-149942015-12-02T01:51:06Z Biosorption of Ni (II) using alkaline-treated rice husk Simarani, K. Q Science (General) Rice husk has been widely reported as a good sorbent for heavy metals. Pretreatment of rice husk minimizes cellulose crystallinity and increases the surface area thus ensuring better adsorption capacity. Commercial base and natural base-treated rice husk were used to investigate the potential of Ni (II) adsorption from synthetic wastewater in batch systems. Effects of process variables such as pH. contact time. adsorbent dose. initial Ni (II) concentration were studied. Optimum Ni (II) adsorption was observed at pH 6 within 60 min of contact time. Experimental data showed increased amount of adsorbed Ni (11)with increasing adsorbent dose and decreased percent of adsorption with increasing initial Ni(lI) concentration. Kinetic isotherms (Langmuir. Freundlich) were also applied. Biosorption mechanism of rice husk was analyzed using SEMIEDS. FT-IR, and XRD. The results revealed that natural base produced from agro industrial waste could be used IS efficient as commercial bases during pretreatment rice husk in removing Ni(II) from wastewaters within 15 min. Keywords-adsorbent, biomass. heavy metal. nickel removal. 2015-07-29 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.um.edu.my/14994/1/0001.pdf Simarani, K. (2015) Biosorption of Ni (II) using alkaline-treated rice husk. In: International Science Index, 29-30 July 2015, Istanbul, Turkey . http://eprints.um.edu.my/14994/
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Simarani, K.
Biosorption of Ni (II) using alkaline-treated rice husk
description Rice husk has been widely reported as a good sorbent for heavy metals. Pretreatment of rice husk minimizes cellulose crystallinity and increases the surface area thus ensuring better adsorption capacity. Commercial base and natural base-treated rice husk were used to investigate the potential of Ni (II) adsorption from synthetic wastewater in batch systems. Effects of process variables such as pH. contact time. adsorbent dose. initial Ni (II) concentration were studied. Optimum Ni (II) adsorption was observed at pH 6 within 60 min of contact time. Experimental data showed increased amount of adsorbed Ni (11)with increasing adsorbent dose and decreased percent of adsorption with increasing initial Ni(lI) concentration. Kinetic isotherms (Langmuir. Freundlich) were also applied. Biosorption mechanism of rice husk was analyzed using SEMIEDS. FT-IR, and XRD. The results revealed that natural base produced from agro industrial waste could be used IS efficient as commercial bases during pretreatment rice husk in removing Ni(II) from wastewaters within 15 min. Keywords-adsorbent, biomass. heavy metal. nickel removal.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Simarani, K.
author_facet Simarani, K.
author_sort Simarani, K.
title Biosorption of Ni (II) using alkaline-treated rice husk
title_short Biosorption of Ni (II) using alkaline-treated rice husk
title_full Biosorption of Ni (II) using alkaline-treated rice husk
title_fullStr Biosorption of Ni (II) using alkaline-treated rice husk
title_full_unstemmed Biosorption of Ni (II) using alkaline-treated rice husk
title_sort biosorption of ni (ii) using alkaline-treated rice husk
publishDate 2015
url http://eprints.um.edu.my/14994/
http://eprints.um.edu.my/14994/1/0001.pdf
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