Affiliation:
1. RCCV Girls College, Ghaziabad, India
Abstract
Heavy metals have come up as a threatening pollutant in aqueous media, leading to life threatening consequences. Biomaterial has been a novel and innovative wing of Green Chemistry, eradicating the threats in a cost effective and clean manner. The present study has been focused on the successful removal of a life-threatening heavy metal Cd (II) from aqueous solution using biosorbent created using selected plants. The present study establishes the fact that carboxylic acid group plays an important role in the metal binding process using protection of COOH group by propylamination and esterification. We could also conclude that the enrichment of COOH group onto the biomaterial using synthetic modifications succination leads to the increase in the sorption efficiency.
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