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International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies
ISSN: 2028-9324     CODEN: IJIABO     OCLC Number: 828807274     ZDB-ID: 2703985-7
 
 
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Evaluation of Moringa oleifera Carbon for the As(III) Removal from Contaminated Groundwater


Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2014, Pages 1390–1399

 Evaluation of Moringa oleifera Carbon for the As(III) Removal from Contaminated Groundwater

Suman Barua1, Ismail M. M. Rahman2, M. Nazimuddin3, and Hiroshi Hasegawa4

1 Department of Applied and Environmental Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Chittagong, Chittagong 4331, Bangladesh
2 Department of Applied and Environmental Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Chittagong, Chittagong 4331, Bangladesh
3 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Chittagong, Chittagong 4331, Bangladesh
4 Institute of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University, Kakuma, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan

Original language: English

Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract


Removal of trivalent arsenic from contaminated groundwater was studied using steam activated carbon prepared from the leaf, seed and pod of Moringa oleifera (MO) plant of the indigenous-cultivar of Bangladesh. Batch adsorption experiments were performed as a function of contact time, adsorbent doses and variants. The removal efficiency of the MO-leaf-carbon and MO-seed-carbon was substantial, while it was trivial for MO-pod-carbon. The pseudo-first- and second-order and intra-particle diffusion equations were used to evaluate the sorption mechanism of the MO carbon options. The MO is a common plant variety of the arsenic-affected Bengal delta. Therefore, it can be exploited as a cheaper resource of carbonaceous adsorbent for the economical removal of arsenic from the water.

Author Keywords: Moringa oleifera, leaf, seed, pod, arsenic, water treatment.


How to Cite this Article


Suman Barua, Ismail M. M. Rahman, M. Nazimuddin, and Hiroshi Hasegawa, “Evaluation of Moringa oleifera Carbon for the As(III) Removal from Contaminated Groundwater,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1390–1399, September 2014.