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Organic/inorganic composite material for the adsorption of heavy metals from aqueous solutions and procedure for obtaining it

Emerging Nanotechnologies Group ICECHIM Bucharest at Institutul Național de Cercetare – Dezvoltare pentru Chimie și Petrochimie - ICECHIM

Bucuresti, Romania

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The present invention refers to a composite material formed from an organic phase, namely pectin obtained from vegetable waste of: apple peels, citrus peels, and an inorganic phase formed from apatite material of the hydroxyapatite type in which calcium has been displaced by magnesium in atomic ratios Mg:Ca = 0.01..0.5:1, the composite material being used for the adsorption of heavy metals from aqueous solutions, an effect demonstrated by the adsorption of lead and cadmium. The process of obtaining the organic/inorganic composite material consists of two stages, in the first stage pectin is obtained from vegetable waste, and in the second stage the apatitic material is obtained in the presence of pectin.

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