Characterization of watermelon rind as biosorbent in removing zinc and lead
Rapid industrial development discharged huge volume of heavy metals to the environment. In some cases heavy metals present is high concentration and require treatment. An alternative option in treating heavy metals is using biosorption. Biosorption is a passive physical-chemical process where bio mo...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/7246/ |
| Summary: | Rapid industrial development discharged
huge volume of heavy metals to the environment. In
some cases heavy metals present is high concentration
and require treatment. An alternative option in treating
heavy metals is using biosorption. Biosorption is a passive
physical-chemical process where bio molecule of
non living biological material that called as biosorbent, bind with heavy metal ion in aqueous solution. In this
research watermelon rind was chosen as biosorbent-
Charaeteization studies were conducted using SEMEDX,
XRF and FTIR to prove that biosorption process
occurred. The results from characterization studies had
confirmed the appearance of heavy metals after biosorption
due to ion exchange process. These results
supported potentially used of watermelon rind as biosorbent
for heavy metals removal in various wastewater. |
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