Biosorption of nickel and cadmium from spent battery in aqueous solution using Animal waste as bio sorbent in a packed column

Abstract

A promising technique for eliminating heavy metals from the environment and industrial effluents is biosorption. Toxic metals can be entirely removed from waste water by using organic molecules in the absorption process, but this requires a physiochemical mechanism. There are several approaches including the economical and environmentally beneficial method of bio adsorption, to remove heavy metals from contaminated water. Animal wastes including crab shells, fish scales and egg shells were used in research to determine whether they might play as an efficient adsorbent to remove heavy metals from wastewater. It has been reviewed that instead of using traditional ways to remove heavy metals from waste water, unused animal parts could be used as an adsorbent. The possibility and mechanism, as well as the variables influencing favourable conditions that promote heavy metal adsorption, are examined in this study. It has been demonstrated that the study supports the high metal adsorption capacity of animal wastes, materials such as scales and shells and that the rate of adsorption is dependent on time, pH, the initial concentration of metals and the concentration of the adsorbent during suspension. With R2 values ranging from 0.9275 to 0.9894, isotherm modelling investigations showed that the experimental data best suited the Freundlich and Langmuir models respectively. Using the removal efficiency formula, the amount of adsorption of each metal with various animal wastes material scales and shells was determined.

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DOI

10.25303/204rjbt1370145

Journal

Research Journal of Biotechnology

Year

2025