Surface Modification of Celluloses Extracted from Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunches for Heavy Metal Sorption

Contamination of environment with heavy metals such as cadmium, cobalt, copper, nickel and manganese is becoming a major problem due to their toxicity persistency and bioaccumulation tendency. Cellulose fibers extracted from Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunches (OPEFB) were surface modified using esterifica...

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Main Authors: S. Daneshfozoun, M. Nazir, B. Abdullah, M. Abdullah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIDIC Servizi S.r.l. 2014-06-01
Series:Chemical Engineering Transactions
Online Access:https://www.cetjournal.it/index.php/cet/article/view/5808