TITLE:
Lead Adsorption onto Various Solid Surfaces
AUTHORS:
Handojo Djati Utomo
KEYWORDS:
Adsorption, Coffee Residue, GAC, Pb2+, Particle Concentration Effect, Tea Leaves, Nano Metal Oxide of MnO2
JOURNAL NAME:
Natural Resources,
Vol.6 No.3,
March
9,
2015
ABSTRACT: Adsorption is becoming an important method in water and wastewater treatment technology at low concentrations. Pb2+ adsorption at low concentration onto various solid surfaces using either nano metal oxide of MnO2, or granulated activated carbon (GAC) or agricultural by-products such as tea leaves and coffee residue are considered promising. In this adsorption study the measurements were conducted by equilibrating Lead solutions at different concentrations range 19 - 291 μmol·L-1 with various adsorbent suspensions in the concentration range 0.388 - 8.738 g·L-1. Comparing all the adsorption capacities calculated using Langmuir equation Pb2+ adsorption by MnO2 shows the highest adsorption capacity with the estimated Γm = 528.0 μmol·g–1 at a fixed equilibrium constant K = 0.0119 L·μmoL-1. In addition, the Pb2+ adsorption by coffee residue is subject to a particle concentration effect in which the adsorption density decreases as the concentration of solid adsorbent Cs is increased. The Pb2+ adsorption by tea leaves, MnO2 and GAC shows less dependency to the concentration of solid adsorbent Cs, especially at lower metal ion concentrations. In the particular case of Pb2+ adsorption on MnO2 there appears to be no dependence on Cs.