Research Article
Removal of Heavy Metals from Water (Cu and Pb) Using Household Waste as an Adsorbent
| Mrinalini Kanyal and Anuja Ashok Bhatt* | |
| School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India | |
| Corresponding Author : | Anuja Ashok Bhatt School of Biosciences and Biotechnology Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India Tel: 0416 224 3091 E-mail: anuja_bhatt92@yahoo.com |
| Received August 21, 2014; Accepted December 29, 2014; Published December 31, 2014 | |
| Citation: Kanyal M, Bhatt AA (2015) Removal of Heavy Metals from Water (Cu and Pb) Using Household Waste as an Adsorbent. J Bioremed Biodeg 6:269. doi:10.4172/2155-6199.1000269 | |
| Copyright: © 2015 Kanyal M, et al. This is an open-a ccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
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Abstract
Chicken eggshells, Banana peels and Pumpkins are used as good adsorbents for removing heavy metals from contaminated water, which have been observed and studied currently. The effects of various parameters such as pH, agitation speed and contact time was studied and good results were obtained at pH 7, 100 rpm and 90 mins of contact time. The results indicate that usage of household waste such as these can be used as a good biosorbent for removal of heavy metals on a large scale and create effective, cheap and efficient methods in treating wastewater.
