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  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 2b

Adsorption behavior of lead in industrial sewage effluent irrigated soils

  • Author:
  • Ramappa Jakanur, V.R. Ramakrishna Param, Ganapathi 1
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 515 to 517

1Organic farming Research center, ZAHRS, UAHS, Navile, Shimoga, Karnataka

Department of soil science and Agricultural Chemistry, UAS, GKVK, Bangalore, Karnataka

Online published on 12 September, 2014.

Abstract

Adsorption of lead was higher in polluted soils as compared to unpolluted soils. The Langmuir and freundlich adsorption isotherms recorded highest binding energy (k) and adsorption maxima (b) in Hoskerhallli polluted soils as compared to unpolluted soils.

Keywords

Heavy metal, Adsorption, Sewage, industrial effluents, isotherms