Abstracts Book - IMRC 2018

• SF5-P092
DEVELOPMENT OF AN INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER FILTER BASED
IN BIOMASSES ORANGE PEELS AND WALNUT SHELLS FOR THE
ABSORPTION OF HEAVY METALS.
Ramses Adrian Valdez Morales 1 , Carlos Fernando Córdova Juárez 1 , Francisco Javier Almendariz
Tapia 1 , Guillermo del Carmen Tiburcio Munive 1 , Paul Zavala Rivera 1
1 Universidad de Sonora, Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Metalurgia., Mexico.
Several industries have problems in their chemical or physical process that can
release toxic compounds to environmental media such a heavy metals with the
potential to affect human health and the environment.
In the last decades, research and development of physical, chemical, and
biological processes for the extraction of heavy metal in industry effluents has
increased, such as activated carbon, precipitation, ionic exchange, inverted
osmosis, adsorption, biomass, etc. However, some generate other environment
problems or the implementation needs high investments. Biosorption through
biomass farming waste has shown a sustainable option.
The main purpose of this work is to elaborate a biomass capable to absorb
heavy metal and then use them in a biosorption filter using orange peels and
walnut shells farms waste of the region. The waste is pre-treated by chemical
and thermal process to improve the adsorption of different metal found in local
industrial wastewaters by simulated solutions at different pH´s and
temperatures.
Acknowledgment:
We appreciate Dr. Roberto Carlos Carrillo Torres of Physics Department and Dr.
Ramón Alfonso Moreno Corral of Polymers and Materials Research Department
for their valuable help in the characterization of our samples.
Keywords: biomass, Metals, Wastewater
Presenting authors email: a215201694@alumnos.unison.mx