Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 193, Issue -, Pages 477-487Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.06.123
Keywords
Heavy metal; Biosorption; Chemical modification; Desorption; Lignocellulosic waste
Funding
- Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater (CTWW)
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
- University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
- Australian Postgraduate Award
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This work attends to preparation and characterization of a novel multi-metal binding biosorbent after chemical modification and desorption studies. Biomass is a combination of tea waste, maple leaves and mandarin peels with a certain proportion to adsorb cadmium, copper, lead and zinc ions from aqueous solutions. The mechanism involved in metal removal was investigated by SEM, SEM/EDS and FTIR. SEM/EDS showed the presence of different chemicals and adsorbed heavy metal ions on the surface of biosorbent. FTIR of both unmodified and modified biosorbents revealed the important role of carboxylate groups in heavy metal biosorption. Desorption using different eluents and 0.1 M HCl showed the best desorption performance. The effectiveness of regeneration step by 1 M CaCl2 on five successive cycles of sorption and desorption displays this multi-metal binding biosorbent (MMBB) can effectively be utilized as an adsorbent to remove heavy metal ions from aqueous solutions in five cycles of sorption/desorption/regeneration. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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