Palm Oil Fuel Ash (POFA) as an Innovative Material for Arsenic Removal from Mining Effluent

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10.2991/aer.k.210825.083How to use a DOI?

Keywords

adsorption, agricultural waste, mercury removal, palm oil fuel ash (pofa)

Abstract

Arsenic is toxic element, accumulate in the environment as main contaminant in aqueous waste stream. This study aimed to analyze the capability of raw palm oil fuel ash (pofa) as a potential adsorbent to remove arsenic contamination in the wastewater of mining effluent. Technology applied in this study was adsorption followed by precipitation. The maximum arsenic removal percentage of 100 % and a maximum adsorption capacity up to 0.224 mg/g was discovered. The results indicate that the method for arsenic removal from wastewater using raw pofa was effective, simple and low-cost to apply.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rainiyati
AU  - Ahmad Riduan
AU  - Sarah Fiebrina Heraningsih
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/26
TI  - Palm Oil Fuel Ash (POFA) as an Innovative Material for Arsenic Removal from Mining Effluent
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd Green Development International Conference (GDIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 490
EP  - 493
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aer.k.210825.083
DO  - 10.2991/aer.k.210825.083
ID  - 2021
ER  -