Removal of Copper and Cobalt from Textile Wastewater using Date Palm as Bioadsorbance and Implication to pH

Abstract

A lot of wastewater has been produced by factories and has been
discharged wastewater into water sources that have great potential to disrupt
the health of organisms such as humans, plants, animals, and most aquatic life.
Therefore, this study is important in the effort to remove heavy metals from
wastewater. The wastewater was tested using Inductively Coupled PlasmaOptical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES) twice which is before and after
filtration. The sample will be undergoing ICP-OES twice to calculate the
percentage of the heavy metal removal. The percentage of heavy metals
removal from this experiment is too small between 2.0% to 2.4%. Even though
date palm (DP) was successfully changing pH value before and after treatment
of wastewater which in this case was textile wastewater evidenced by the pH
meter results. ICP-OES analysis results show the type of heavy metals content
on the wastewater such as Copper (Cu) and also Cobalt (Co) confirmed the
removal of heavy metals by using date palm as bio adsorbent was able to
identify types of heavy metals content on the wastewater. In conclusion, dates
are an effective natural ingredient to be used as a bio-absorbent for wastewater.