Abstract
Copper is an essential element for human body and also micro nutrient for plants. Higher concentrations of copper in water cause severe health problems. Many process and metallurgical industries release significant quantities of copper into the environment. Several methods were suggested for removal of copper, most of which were either cost ineffective and/or release harmful chemicals. In that perspective, current paper is focused on the removal of copper from aqueous solution by using laterite as an adsorbent. The equilibrium, kinetics and adsorption behaviour under varied pH and temperature were studied in this investigation. It was found that the removal efficiency was about 90%. The kinetics obeyed pseudo second order model. The adsorption equilibrium isotherms could be described by Langmuir model satisfactorily.
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