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<p>Jordan is one of the most water-scarce countries in the world. The country’s renewable water supply currently only meets about half of the population’s water demands. The aim of the present study was to investigate the changes in the level of heavy metals found in pharmaceutical wastewater from Al-Hikma Drugs Industry using palm fronds - Washingtonia Robusta (PF-WR) as organic adsorbents. Removal of heavy metals, turbidity, chemical, and biological oxygen demand, and suspended solids from industrial water using bioadsorbent materials was studied. Increasing the concentration of PFWR increased the removal efficiency. The optimum reductions of Fe, Ni, Cu, Cr, Pb, Co, Al, Na, COD, BOD, and turbidity were 64.29 %, 90.35 %, 61.75 %, 62.6 %, 60.60 %, 34.09 %, 10.09 %, 85.26 %, 87.41 %, and 78 %, respectively, were achieved by increasing the PF-WR concentration to 100 %. The removal efficiency was found to be concentration-dependent of PF-WR. The lowest reduction was achieved by sodium and pH.</p>
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Jordan is one of the most water-scarce countries in the world. The country’s renewable water supply currently only meets about half of the population’s water demands. The aim of the present study was to investigate the changes in the level of heavy metals found in pharmaceutical wastewater from Al-Hikma Drugs Industry using palm fronds - Washingtonia Robusta (PF-WR) as organic adsorbents. Removal of heavy metals, turbidity, chemical, and biological oxygen demand, and suspended solids from industrial water using bioadsorbent materials was studied. Increasing the concentration of PFWR increased the removal efficiency. The optimum reductions of Fe, Ni, Cu, Cr, Pb, Co, Al, Na, COD, BOD, and turbidity were 64.29 %, 90.35 %, 61.75 %, 62.6 %, 60.60 %, 34.09 %, 10.09 %, 85.26 %, 87.41 %, and 78 %, respectively, were achieved by increasing the PF-WR concentration to 100 %. The removal efficiency was found to be concentration-dependent of PF-WR. The lowest reduction was achieved by sodium and pH.

Improve Heavy Metals and Pollutants Removal from the Pharmaceuticals Wastewater Using Washingtonia Robusta: New Extraction Process

Al-Huson University College Al-Balqa Applied University

Al-Balqa’ Applied University Al-Huson University College

Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Jordan is one of the most water-scarce countries in the world. The country’s renewable water supply currently only meets about half of the population’s water...

Improve Heavy Metals and Pollutants Removal from the Pharmaceuticals Wastewater Using Washingtonia Robusta: New Extraction Process

Published Online: Jun 29, 2022

Page range: 340 - 349

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cee-2022-0032

Keywords
Adsorption, Heavy metals, Physiochemical, Palm fronds - Washingtonia Robusta

© 2022 La’aly A Al-Samrraie et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Improve Heavy Metals and Pollutants Removal from the Pharmaceuticals Wastewater Using Washingtonia Robusta: New Extraction Process

Published Online: Jun 29, 2022

Page range: 340 - 349

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cee-2022-0032

KeywordsAdsorption, Heavy metals, Physiochemical, Palm fronds - Washingtonia Robusta

© 2022 La’aly A Al-Samrraie et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Adsorption, Heavy metals, Physiochemical, Palm fronds - Washingtonia Robusta