Using fish scales as a new biosorbent for adsorption of nickel and copper ions from wastewater and investigating the effects of electric and magnetic fields on the adsorption process

Seyed Mohamad Javad Sajjadi Shourije, Pouyan Dehghan, Mohammad Ebrahim Bahrololoom, Andrew J. Cobley, Veronique Vitry, Golnaz Taghavi Pourian Azar, Hesam Kamyab, Mohsen Mesbah

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Abstract

In this study, fish scales (Pomadasys kaakan's scales) were used as new biosorbent for removing Ni2+ and Cu2+ ions from wastewater. The effects of electric and magnetic fields on the absorption efficiency were also investigated. The effects of sorbent content, ion concentration, contact time, pH, electric field (EF), and magnetic field (MF) on absorption efficiency were assertained. In addition, the isotherm of absorption was studied in this work. This study revealed that electric field and magnetic field have significant effects on the absorption efficiency of ions from wastewater. An increase in the electric field enhanced the removal percentage of the ions and accelerated the absorption process by up to 40% in comparison with the same condition without an electric field or a magnetic field. By increasing contact time from 10 to 120 min, the removal of Ni2+ ions was increased from 1% to 40% and for Cu2+ ions, the removal increased from 20% to almost 95%, respectively. In addition, increasing pH, ion concentration and scales dose increased removal percentage effectively. The results indicated that using fish scales for Cu2+ ions absorption is ideal due to the very high removal percentage (approximately 95%) without using either an electric or magnetic field.
Original languageEnglish
Article number137829
Number of pages10
JournalChemosphere
Volume317
Early online date11 Jan 2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2023

Keywords

  • Fish scales
  • Biosorbent
  • Adsorption
  • Ions removal
  • Waste-water
  • Electric_magnetic field

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