Paper Title
Using The Alternative (Low-Cost) Adsorbent for Environmental Pollution Control: A Waste Removal with Different Peels of Fruits and Vegetables
Abstract
Over the last few years, pollution of the water both from natural and anthropogenic sources is of high concern. Another apprehensive fact of pollution is the high presence of contaminants in the environment, especially those with toxic and hazardous properties. Considering the fact that we are dealing with a high amount of contaminates, remediation of environment has an enormous cost and reducing the pollution is a necessity. Nowadays, for scientists is a big challenge to find the path that leads to purifying the environment in the most eco-friendly way with a low cost. Therefore, the aim of this study presents the use of environmentally friendly low-cost adsorbents, such as; pumpkin peels, shells of peanut and sunflower seeds, chamomile tea residues and coffee as a waste removal from aqueous solution. The known concentration of our studied samples were measured before and after the peel treatment. To prove the results of the decreased concentration from solutions, we also used different analytical techniques. For the color removal, we used UV–visible spectrophotometry, for the metal removal we used thermo scientific orion star A211 benchtop with a cadmium electrode and we also validated the results with inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP AES) technique, for morphology of the substances scanning electron microscope (SEM) and infrared spectra (FTIR).From the results of our research, we can conclude that we have promising outcomes of these peels and wastes from biowaste derived bio sorbents for the removal of cadmium element from aqueous solution.
Keywords - Cadmium, Environmental Pollution, ICP AES Technique, SEM.