Research Article

Biosorption of Zinc from Aqueous Solution Using Chemically Treated Rice Husk

Table 3

Adsorption of Zn2+ from the literature by various adsorbents.

AdsorbentsAdsorption capacity (mg/g)Reference

Activated carbon obtained from agricultural by-products6.65Ferro-García et al. [18]
Oxidised jute8.02Shukla and Pai [19]
Neem bark13.29Bhattacharya et al. [20]
Black gram husk13.45Saeed et al. [9]
Clarified sludge15.53Bhattacharya et al. [20]
NaOH-treated rice husk20.08This study