Agriculture waste from banana peel as low cost adsorbent in treating methylene blue from batik textile waste water effluents

Abstract

Batik industrial textile waste water effluent if improperly disposed to the catchment can cause the water pollution that will endanger human health and the environment. The contaminants discharge in the dye processing causes the water pollution. Banana peel is a potential agriculture waste that can be used to reduce the concentration of color from synthetic dye effluents. This study is aim to determine the potential of banana peel as agricultural waste adsorbent for Methylene Blue (MB) removal at different contact time (15minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 90 minutes, 120 minutes, 150 minutes, and 180 minutes) and different adsorbent dosage (0.05, 0.1, 0.15, 0.2, 0.25, 0.3, and 0.4 gram) and to develop kinetic model for Methylene Blue (MB) removal. The experiments were conducted at room temperature using batch study. As the banana peel dosage is added from 0.05 g to 0.4 g in 100 ml of Methylene Blue solution, the percentage of MB solution removal also increase from 34.69 % to 86.88 %, indeed due to the increase in phenolic compounds adsorption rates. The adsorption process reached the optimum contact time at 150 minutes with MB solution removal of 86.22 %. The kinetic data obtained specified that the data follow closely the pseudo-second-order. It is concluded that banana peel can act effectively as natural adsorbent in treating Methylene Blue (MB) from batik textile wastewater effluents.

Current Development of Sorbents Derived From Plant and Animal Waste as Green Solution for Treating Polluted Aqueous Media

“…Research on plant-based sorbent has gained an increasing interest for various purposes. The recycle of abundant plant wastes could be part of green solutions overcoming detrimental issues to the environment related agricultural waste [47,48]. Along with this consideration, the need of finding cheaper and more environmentally friendly sorbent materials has led to more efforts to widen the variety of green sorbents utilization [49].…”

“…Current studies have reported the potentiality of banana waste as sorbent material especially its peel which can be utilized to remove organic and inorganic pollutants from polluted media. To begin with, methylene blue dye concentration in raw textile wastewater could be reduced by more than 86.88 % using as little as 0.4 g of banana peel-derived sorbent [47]. It was then followed by other study which created banana peel-based biochar/iron oxide composite to adsorb methylene blue dye.…”

Biomass potential as an alternative resource for valuable products in the perspective of environmental sustainability and a circular economy system

“…One of those materials is activated carbon. With the circular economy and environmental sustainability, the utilization of biomass derived from agricultural and animal wastes like fruit seeds and peels, leaves, tree barks or woods, and animal bones has attracted significant interest as part of the green solution for modern industrialization and population side effect [13][14][15]. Finding low-cost, environmentally friendly, and effective adsorbents may require extensive investigation.…”

Remediation Potency of Charcoal Block and Sawdust in Petroleum Products Contaminated Soil

“…Edokpayi et al [42] observed that the adsorption efficiency of coconut shellbased adsorbent increased drastically (6% to 35%) as the contact time increased from 20 min to 60 min, after which it slowed down (35% to 40%) between 60 min to 100 min contact time, before it started to decline after 100 min. According to Abu Bakar et al [42], the higher adsorption efficiency (fast kinetics) detected during the initial contact time could be credited to the abundant availability of active binding sites within the adsorbent material, which are later filled up as the adsorption process progresses. Since charcoal is not a selective adsorbent material; it will therefore absorb not only the harmful contaminants, but also the useful nutrients (and trace elements) required by the plant's growth and microbial activity within the soil.…”