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Highly efficient removal of toxic ions by the activated carbon derived from Citrus limon tree leaves

  • Carbon Letters
  • Abbr : Carbon Lett.
  • 2021, 31(3), pp.509-521
  • DOI : 10.1007/s42823-020-00181-7
  • Publisher : Korean Carbon Society
  • Research Area : Natural Science > Natural Science General > Other Natural Sciences General
  • Received : February 22, 2020
  • Accepted : August 28, 2020
  • Published : June 1, 2021

Nemati Fahime 1 Jafari Dariush 2 Esmaeili Hossein 2

1School of Chemical Engineering, Kherad Institute of Higher Education
2Islamic Azad University

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to remove lead and arsenic ions from aqueous solutions using the activated carbon prepared from Citrus limon tree leaves. Characteristics of the prepared adsorbent were studied thoroughly using BET, SEM, EDS and mapping, XRD, and RAMAN analyses. The results of experiments showed that the highest adsorption efciencies were 97.67% and 95.89% for Pb (II) and As (III), respectively. Additionally, the adsorbent was successfully regenerated four times and therefore it was able to perform the adsorption and desorption processes well. Moreover, the results of adsorption kinetics showed that the pseudo second-order kinetic model was more efective for the description of adsorption mechanism of both metals. Furthermore, the equilibrium studies indicated that Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm models were desirable for lead and arsenic ions, respectively

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