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Surfactant-Mediated Techniques for Heavy Metal Removal in Water Treatment

Author(s) Mr. Dukhit Kumar Sahu, Dr. Radha Krishnan, Dr. Birendra Kumar, Dr. Piyush Kumar Thakur, Dr. Deepti Tikariha Jangde
Country India
Abstract Heavy metals pose a significant threat to environmental and public health due to primarily from agricultural runoff and sugar industry effluents. The physicochemical parameters such as pH, total hardness, total deposit solids, turbidity and chemical oxygen demand (COD) of water is determined. The water samples are analyzed that various metal ions presented durring analysis. In this study, we found that various metal ion such as iron (Fe), lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd) and chromium (Cr), exceeding permissible limits from collected samples. It is task for scientific community to removal of heavy metals from water samples. We observed that the iron metal ions levels are very high than other metal ions in this region. Therefore, we have used nonionic surfactants and polymer, particularly Triton X-100 (TX-100), Triton X-114 (TX-100), Polyethylene glycol 200 (PEG-200), polyethylene glycol 400 (PEG-400) for the removal of heavy metals from contaminated water samples from different regions by cloud point extraction techniques. The efficiency of surfactants viz. TX-100, TX-114, PEG-200, PEG 400 are influenced by factors such as pH, surfactant concentration. These method operate through micellar solubilization, enhanced adsorption and chelation, offering a sustainable and cost-effective solution for heavy metal removal in water.
Keywords Non-ionic Surfactant, polymers, heavy metal, cloud point extraction, Iron
Field Chemistry
Published In Volume 7, Issue 4, July-August 2025
Published On 2025-07-03
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i04.49664
Short DOI https://doi.org/g9s9c3

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