Proceedings of the International Conference of Tropical Studies and its Applications (ICTROPS 2022)

Removal of Heavy Metals (Fe and Pb) in The Mahakam River Water Using Eggshells and Rubbing Ash as Adsorbent

Authors
Alris Sanca Pratama Putra1, Akbar Perdana1, Ahmad Zarkasi1, Dadan Hamdani1, Rahmawati Munir1, *
1Theoretical and Material Physics Laboratory, Physics Department Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, Mulawarman University, Samarinda, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: rahmawati@fmipa.unmul.ac.id
Corresponding Author
Rahmawati Munir
Available Online 27 July 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-180-7_35How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Adsorbent; Eggshells. Heavy Metals; Rubbing Ash
Abstract

Pollution of heavy metals (Fe and Pb) in the Mahakam River water has become an important problem. The solution for this case is water purification using natural product. There are several purification methods, one of them is the adsorption method to reduce the levels of heavy metals (Fe and Pb). The aim of this study was to reduce the concentration of heavy metals (Fe and Pb) using egg shells and rubbing ash as adsorbents. Characterization of the ability to adsorb heavy metals by adsorbents using Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS). By varying the mass of the adsorbent, the maximum Fe adsorption ability was obtained at a mass of 10 grams, namely 0.11 mg per liter (eggshells) and 0.3 mg per liter (eggshells+rubbing ash). Meanwhile, the maximum Pb adsorption capacity at 10 grams was 0.24 mg per liter (eggshells) and 0.17 mg per liter (eggshells+rubbing ash). Thus the best adsorbent for Fe is eggshell and the best adsorbent for Pb is a mixture of eggshell and rubbing ash. For modelling Fe sorption by eggshells, the Freudlich isotherm fits better than the Langmuir isotherm. Based on the Freudlich isotherm result, the adsorption process is forable and the maximum adsorption capacity is 0.009601 mg/g. This work gives detailed information about an innovative method to utilize eggshell waste and rubbing ash as an inexpensive adsorbent to remove heavy metals (Fe and Pb) from Mahakam River Waters.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference of Tropical Studies and its Applications (ICTROPS 2022)
Series
Advances in Biological Sciences Research
Publication Date
27 July 2023
ISBN
978-94-6463-180-7
ISSN
2468-5747
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-180-7_35How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Alris Sanca Pratama Putra
AU  - Akbar Perdana
AU  - Ahmad Zarkasi
AU  - Dadan Hamdani
AU  - Rahmawati Munir
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/07/27
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BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference of Tropical Studies and its Applications (ICTROPS 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 327
EP  - 334
SN  - 2468-5747
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DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-180-7_35
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