Study on Activated Carbon Prepared from Various Fruit Peels

The presence of dyes and heavy metals in water is undesirable and may be toxic to the aquatic
environment. Therefore, removal of these contaminants is an important aspect of waste water
treatment. Fruit peel was produced by restaurants, fruit juice producers, fruit seller, consumer and
food industries in the world. Because of for most fruits, only the fleshy pulps are consumed leaving
and the peels were discarded. As a result, these peels causing pollution and serious environmental
impact. Therefore, there is the need for an intensified research in the development of the activated
carbon. Fruit peels were used as precursor to synthesis activated carbon in water treatment. The
obtained activated carbon has higher surface area and pore volume. Equilibrium data will be
investigated using Langmuir and Freundlich.