Effects of Cupric Ion Adsorption onto the Modified Pineapple Pulp as a Biochar Adsorbent

The cupric ion is toxic for humans and is contained in many industrial wastewater that should be effectively removed with adsorption before discharging into the natural water source. In this study, pineapple pulp was obtained from canned pineapple juice manufacturing for drying (DPP) and carbonization (CPP) for 2 h. at 400 °C as the fine biochar adsorbents. The specific surface area of DPP and CPP were 45.3 and 60.2 m2/g, respectively. A high surface area of the carbonized pineapple pulp as a fine adsorbent was found to effectively cupric ion adsorption capacity, the maximum cupric ion removal efficiency of 83.4% and 41.9 mg/g of adsorption capacity at a pH of 6.0 was attained after 30 minutes to equilibrium reach, initial feed concentration of copper (II) sulfate 5-hydrate (CuSO4 . 5H2O) 250 ppm and temperature 50 °C. From these results can be applied to remove the cupric ion from the wastewater treatment.