Heavy metal pollution has emerged as one of the most serious environmental challenges facing the world today. The removal of heavy metals from the effluent is of special environmental concern because of their toxicity and persistence in nature. This study presents the suitability of activated carbon from waste rubber tire as a low-cost adsorbent for multiple adsorption of copper, lead and zinc from wastewater. The adsorbent removed heavy metal ions effectively from solution medium in the order of copper > lead > Zinc. The adsorption process was rapid with all metals reaching equilibrium within 120 min. The optimum pH for Lead was achieved at 5 and 6 for copper and Zinc. The removal of heavy metals was discovered to increase with adsorbent dosage and contact time and reduced with initial concentration. The adsorption of multiple heavy metals was modeled using Freundlich and Langmuir adsorption isotherms to assess the experimental findings. The equilibrium data better fitted to the Langmuir isotherm with regression coefficient (R 2 ) of 0.9831, 0.9992 and 0.9953 for lead, copper and zinc respectively. The maximum adsorption capacities (Q max ) at equilibrium were 9.6805 mg/g, 12.4378 mg/g and 4.9950 mg/g for Lead, Copper and Zinc respectively. The adsorption kinetics indicated that pseudo-second-order kinetic model described well the sorption mechanism for multiple adsorption of heavy metals with R 2 of more than 0.99 for all metal ions. An empirical model for predicting and designing of a single batch adsorber for 95 % multiple heavy metal ion removal at any given initial heavy metal ion concentration and effluent volume was further developed using activated carbon from waste rubber tires. Waste rubber tire Activated carbon demonstrated an ability for the treatment of wastewater containing these heavy metals in multimetal solutions.
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