Adsorption of manganese in waste water treatment using banana peels

Manganese metal is seen as one of the biggest contributor to water pollution in the planet.
although there exist conventional technologies to remove heavy metal from water, it is either
economical or ineffective. Adsorption is seen as a good solution to the current problem and
with wide abundance of banana peels available in Malaysia which makes it cheap, the problem
o heavy metal pollution are hope to be reduced. This would add value to the agricultural
commodities. This project aims to fmd a method to develop the most efficient adsorbent from
mana peels. In the project, the banana peels is initially dried, grinded and extraction study was
Jne to determine the adsorption capacity. Development of the banana peels characteristics is
me using CHN Elemental Analyzer and FTIR. The adsorption study was done at different
mtact time, different dosage and also different manganese concentration at constant room
mperature. The final result obtained shows that the banana peels has the potential to be tum
,to an efficient adsorbent in adsorption of manganese.