Use Seeds of Peach (Prunus persica L. Batsch) Growing Within Mosul City, in Water Purification

Abstract

Hundred gram of large peach seeds were weighted and used as dried clean seeds. Part of dried seeds was grinding and sieved to obtain fine size of granules, with 3 mm as an average. This size of grain is suitable for absorption with ensures that the particles remain completely and did not dissolved or passes with water through contact to treatment. Water samples were collected from water sources for municipal uses in Mosul city, from artesian wells with different characteristics in addition to Tigris river water to analytic the physical, chemical, and heavy metals concentrations. Results shows that Peach seeds were active in improving quality of water. The efficiency of improvement by absorbance the ions. Improvement are increase as the surface area of seeds are increased also. Decrease in the concentrations of ions causing pollution water reaches 35%.