Saturday, September 7, 2013

Preparation and composition of sago waste as an adsorbent:

Preparation and composition of Sago waste as an adsorbent:

                                                                          

                                                         
Sago palm(Cycus revoluta) a green leafy ornamental plant 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycas_revoluta .It is mostly cultivated  due to its beautiful long green leaves .If it is ingested by man it will be very dangerous some species of it are extremely poisonous.It propagates mostly through seeds.

 Sago waste as an adsorbent:

 In a present study, sago waste being used up as an adsorbent. It is a waste biomass, inexpensive and easily available. On the other hand it is granular and having the ability to remove the contamination from the waste water.Certain dyes are compatible and sago waste have prooved to remove many toxic metals  from effluents and inreturn toxicity free waste water is obtained .
  
Firstly twig off all the leaves and spread all the leaves onto the paper. Keep all the leaves on sun exposure, to set dry. Later the dried leaves grinded to obtain powder of raw leaves. Further passed such dried powder from the sieve in order to get more refine powder.in the long run introduced the powder into oven at low temprature  and let allow the powder moisture free. Now the adsorbent is ready to use.Pack the adsorbent in an air tight container.

The composition of sago palm:

Trunk weight varies from 800 kg to 1250 kg and pith weight varies from 643-850 kilograms. The pith contains 20.2 -29% starch and 50-66% water, the remainder being 13.8-21.3 per cent. Calculated on the basis of dry matter, the pith contains 54- 60% starch and 40-46% of other dry matter. The bark or cortex varies from 25.7% -32% of the trunk.
Regarding sago, the granular starch size ranges from about 5-80 micro meters with an average of 30 microns. About 90% of the starch has a particle size of between 20-40 microns. Sago starch consists of 27% amylose and 73% amylopectin. Its gelatinization temperature is 700 centigrade.
       

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