“…Babel and Kurniawan (2003) reviewed the use of lowcost adsorbents for heavy metals uptake from contaminated water. Researchers investigated industrial by-products such as lignin (Betancur et al, 2009;Reyes et al, 2009), diatomite (Sheng et al, 2009), clino-pyrrhotite , lignite (Mohan and Chander, 2006), aragonite shells (Kohler et al, 2007), natural zeolites (Apiratikul and Pavasant, 2008a), clay (Al-Jlil and Alsewailem, 2009), kaolinite (Gu and Evans, 2008) and peat (Liu et al, 2008a), etc. Jiang et al (2010) investigated the kaolinite clay obtained from Longyan, China to remove heavy metal ions Pb(II), Cd(II), Ni(II) and Cu(II) from wastewater.…”