Avaliação do uso do mesocarpo de “coco verde” como adsorvente de íons cobre (Cu^2+) presente em águas residuárias industriais

Abstract

One of the most worrisome and frequent pollutants is heavy metals, which are highly toxic and harmful, making water unfeasible; alternatively, various treatment techniques have been proposed for there moval of metals in water. The adsorption process, besides having a high efficiency in there moval of metals, still has as an advantage the ease of operation and the possibility of use and integral use ofcrops, by-products / wastes that are considered trash by a good part of society and that in the majority of times they only pile up in dumps and compromise the life of land fills. This work aimedat the production of a powder obtained from the drying of the mesocarp of the "greencoconut" and to evaluate its use as adsorbent of copperions (Cu^2+ ) in industrial effluents. For the study of the kinetic data required in the drying study, anairrefurbishmentoven with air -1 flow velocity of 1.0 m.s wasused, with a temperature of 70 ± 3 ° C. The kinetic model that presented the best ad justment in the drying process was Page Modified (R² = 0.9999). The amount of Cu^2+ adsorbed in the adsorption process using the mesocarp powder presented more satisfactory results with removal in the 99% range for the tests with activated material. Among the isotherms adjusted to the experimental data, the correlation coefficients indicate that the Langmuir model (> 0.99) is the best fit for Cu^2+ adsorption, characterizing that the adsorption occurs in monolayer. It can be concluded that the 'greencoconut' mesocarppowderunderthe 'in natura' and activated conditions proved to bean attractive adsorbent, with great adsorptive potential, making it an ideal biosorbent for Cu^2+ adsorption process.