INVESTIGATION OF ABSORPTION OF HEAVY METALS AND POLLUTING MINERAL COMPOUNDS BY CARBON NANOPARTICLES PRODUCED FROM POMEGRANATE PEEL, AS WELL AS ELEMENTS EFFECTIVE ON IT
Journal Title: International journal of ecosystems and ecology science (IJEES) - Year 2019, Vol 9, Issue 1
Abstract
Existence of chemical pollutions and heavy metals in the environment, especially in surface and ground waters is followed by enormously harmful effects on public health. For the purpose of elimination of these pollutions, several methods including implementation of CNTs and active carbons yielding from agricultural wastes have been used. Considering the industrial variability of the city of Saveh, every year a large amount of polluting chemical wastewater enters the environment. The purpose of the present study was to eliminate the Nickel heavy metal and pollutions caused by mineral compounds through making use of pomegranate peel wastes for production of active carbons. For this purpose, various parameters such as pH, contact time, absorber amount, primary density of the metal, and Freundlich and Langmuir’s adsorption isotherms, as well as the overall experiment scheme were studied and investigated using the Design Expert Software. Results of the study showed that a pH of 8 is associated with the highest absorption level. In addition it was tuned out that by prolonging the contact time up to 50 minutes, more than 84.2% of the Nickel content is absorbed by the absorber. The obtained experimental data are in a roughly desirable consistence with the Freundlich and Langmuir’s isotherm models. The values yielded by the optimization of factors were evaluated in order to obtain an optimum elimination efficiency solution and a high selectivity percentage. In order to obtain the selectivity of 0.691 and the optimum elimination efficiency of 91.7432, the value of pH must be equal to 8, contact time must be 50 minutes, and the primary density must be 75mgs per liter.
Authors and Affiliations
Shahla Mozaffari, Narges Ajami, Juliet Ordoukhanin, Najmeh Eisaabadi
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP433672
- DOI 10.31407/ijees9115
- Views 74
- Downloads 0
ECOLOGICAL-GEOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION OF PLANT SPECIES OF TAIGA-STEPPE COMMUNITIES ON LAKE BAIKAL WESTERN SHORE
Phytocoenoses in environmental contact zones reveal in more detail modern trends in the genesis of ecosystems of any range of their organization. Phytocoenoses formed under the extrazonal conditions within definite envir...
ESTIMATION OF SUSPENDED SEDIMENT LOAD BY ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK
In this study, the monthly flow rate and suspended sediment load (Qs) Karamenderes Stream in Turkey for the years of 1996-2004 were estimated with artificial neural network. Mean square error, mean absolute error and co...
INTEGRAL ASSESSMENT OF THE INFLUENCE OF TECHNOGENIC SOIL POLLUTION BY FLUORIDES AND CLIMATIC FACTORS ON THE AGROECOSYSTEMS OF THE BAIKAL REGION
Monitoring (1997-2012) was focused on the impact of gray forest soils (Luvic Greyzemic Phaeozems) pollution with aluminum industry fluorides on carbon transformation and agroecosystems functioning at the background of pr...
KEYSTONE SPECIES AND POSSIBLE IMPACT OF ARTISANAL FISHING IN EKPERIAMA (EKPERIKIRI) FISHING AREA IN NIGER DELTA
A mass-balance model was constructed using EwE version 6.4 aimed at identifying the keystone species and possible impact of artisanal fishing in Ekperiama in the Niger Delta. Data collected between January 2014 and Decem...
LEGACY AND LESSONS LEARNT FROM THE CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT
The nuclear accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, by then USSR yet, took place almost thirty years ago, in the night of April 26th, 1986. The paper aims at summarizing the last findings about the heal...