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Journal of Hazardous Materials 180 2010 442–448 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Hazardous Materials j o u rn al h ome Adsorption of copper onto agriculture waste materials Henrik K. Hansen ? , Fernanda Arancibia, Claudia Gutiérrez Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Ambiental, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria, Casilla 110 V, Valparaíso, Chile a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Mining activities generate large amounts of wastewater, which contain heavy metals of elevated con- Received 13 January 2010 centration according to legislative threshold values. Therefore, treatment is necessary, and there has Received in revised form 22 March 2010 been a recent focus on more environmentally friendly methods. One of these is biosorption, where heavy Accepted 13 April 2010 metals are adsorbed from the wastewater via materials of biological origin. In this work copper sorption Available online 18 April 2010 capacity, kinetics and isotherms of different low-cost residual agricultural materials was studied. Seven different materials were investigated: peanut shells, nut shells, plum seeds, eucalyptus bark, olive pips, Keywords: peach stones, and pine sawdust. The best sorption results were obtained in acidic pH for olive pips, peach Biosorption kinetics Freundlich isotherm stones and pine sawdust. Furthermore, it was observed that at higher pH, a longer duration of time is Langmuir isotherm required before equilibrium is established. In general, the better biosorbents were found to be peach Agricultural residues stones and pine sawdust with a sorption capacity at acidic pH around 10–15 mg Cu g?1 biosorbent. In Biosorption capacity addition it was found, that the Ho and McKay second order model described the sorption kinetics very satisfactorily. Both Langmuir and Freundlich models described the equilibrium sorption isotherms well for the biosorbents studied – with the last model bein