Sugarcane Bagasse and Corn Stalk Biomass as a Potential Sorbent for the Removal of Pb(II) and Cd(II) from Aqueous Solutions
Issued Date
2023-02-01
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eISSN
27740226
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85144706471
Journal Title
Trends in Sciences
Volume
20
Issue
2
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SCOPUS
Bibliographic Citation
Trends in Sciences Vol.20 No.2 (2023)
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Phaenark C., Jantrasakul T., Paejaroen P., Chunchob S., Sawangproh W. Sugarcane Bagasse and Corn Stalk Biomass as a Potential Sorbent for the Removal of Pb(II) and Cd(II) from Aqueous Solutions. Trends in Sciences Vol.20 No.2 (2023). doi:10.48048/tis.2023.6221 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/82157
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Sugarcane Bagasse and Corn Stalk Biomass as a Potential Sorbent for the Removal of Pb(II) and Cd(II) from Aqueous Solutions
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Abstract
Heavy metal pollution in the water supply is a serious environmental problem that affects human health around the world. The goal of this study was to investigate the adsorption behaviour of sugarcane bagasse (SB) and corn stalk (CS) biomass for Pb(II) and Cd(II) removal from metal-contaminated water. When the doses of biomass were increased in solutions containing Pb(II) and Cd(II), the SB and CS showed a trend of increasing metal removal efficiency. The removal efficiency of biomass for Pb(II) decreased as the pH of the solution increased from 5.0 to 7.0, with an optimum pH range of 5 to 6. However, pH has little influence on the removal efficiency of biomass for Cd(II). Adsorption equilibrium is reached in about 15 min. Adsorption for at least four cycles improves Pb(II) removal efficiency (up to 98 %) in solutions containing only Pb(II). The best fitness of the adsorption isotherm to Freundlich suggests multilayer adsorption of metal ions onto CS. Higher qmax and Kf suggest that SB and CS have a greater affinity for Pb(II) than for Cd(II). Pb(II) adsorption potential was found in biomass derived from SB and CS, but it was less effective as a Cd(II) adsorbent. For application in environmental clean-up, we suggest further study on the structural modification of biomass to enhance its metal removal capacity, the regeneration of biomass for better results, and field trials for practical application.