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Effective Removal of Pb(II), Cr(VI), and Cd(II) Ions from Water Using Environmentally Friendly Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles Synthesized from Pods of Pisum sativum

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Despite several technological advances and breakthroughs wastewater treatment continue to be a major problem on a world basis. Here, in this work we synthesised cerium oxide nanoparticles for the removal of chromium, lead and cadmium ions from water. Cerium oxide nanoparticles have been synthesized from Pisum sativum pods extract by the green synthesis route and characterized by various instrumental techniques like double beam UV-Visible spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope, energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometer. Further, the effects of several factors, like adsorbent dose, ion concentration, pH, contact time are also studied through batch adsorption experiments. We also studied pseudo second order and pseudo first order kinetics model. The qmax values for the elimination of Pb(II), Cr(VI), and Cd(II) was calculated to be 100, 125 and 100mg/g respectively. The maximum elimination of lead and cadmium ions were observed at pH 6 and the maximum removal percentage of chromium was observed at pH 3. Based on our results, it concluded that, the synthesized cerium oxide nanoparticles could be used to treat water for better adsorbent.

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The authors are thankful the Department of Chemistry at the National Institute of Technology Raipur, India for providing the research facilities. One of the authors, Komal Kashyap, expresses gratitude to the CSIR-UGC NET for the fellowship (File number 09/1116(0007)/2018-EMR-I).

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Kashyap, K., Moharana, M., Pattanayak, S.K. et al. Effective Removal of Pb(II), Cr(VI), and Cd(II) Ions from Water Using Environmentally Friendly Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles Synthesized from Pods of Pisum sativum. Water Air Soil Pollut 235, 276 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-024-07092-7

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