Track: Environmental Engineering and Management

Abstract

This project presents a process of decontamination of mercury, cadmium and lead from water using lemon techniques as filtering material. The lemon peel, despite being a fruit that use a lot nowadays, contains various minerals that provide essential elements for different chemical processes, including water purification that contains metals. The methodology consists of collecting and preparing the raw material, in this case, lemon peel, dehydrating it at low temperatures with flows of calories, sieving it in 150 microns and then digesting it; followed by tests of determination of minerals and fatty acid profiles. The decontamination tests were carried out with the filtered material and if the results were shown as the ability to decontaminate heavy metals, a filtered material of lemon layers is produced. The methods currently used for the removal of heavy materials are basically not biodegradable. Compared with our filter material they have a higher cost, because the lemon label is a waste that is not commercialized. Our filter material has removed contaminated particles below the order offered by the World Health Organization