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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Chemical Engineering Volume 2012, Article ID 751240, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2012/751240 Research Article Application of Chemically Modified and Unmodified Waste Biological Sorbents in Treatment of Wastewater John Kanayochukwu Nduka Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology Research Unit, Pure Industrial Chemistry Department, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, PMB 5025, Anambra State, Awka 420001, Nigeria Correspondence should be addressed to John Kanayochukwu Nduka, johnnduka2000@yahoo.co.uk Received 12 October 2011; Revised 10 February 2012; Accepted 13 February 2012 ´ Academic Editor: Licınio M. Gando-Ferreira Copyright © 2012 John Kanayochukwu Nduka. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Protein wastes (feathers, goat hair) and cellulosic wastes (corn cob, coconut husks) were collected and washed with detergent solution, thoroughly rinsed and sun dried for 2 days before drying in an oven, and then ground. One-half of ground material was carbonized at a maximum temperature of 500◦C after mixing with H SO . The carbonized parts were pulverized; both carbonized 2 4 and uncarbonized sorbents were sieved into two particle sizes of 325 and 625 µm using mechanical sieve. Sorbents of a given particle size were packed into glass column.Then, textile wastewater that had its physicochemical parameters previously determined was eluted into each glass column and a contact time of 60 and 120 mins was allowed before analysis. Results showed 48.15–99.98