Abstract:
The application of plant waste materials in the synthesis of nanomaterials is an efficient
and inexpensive method to minimize the practice of expensive chemicals. It is because
of the reason that it gives rise to green approaches that abstain from the addition of toxic
chemicals into the environment. The research work focuses on the synthesis of silver
nanocomposites using powders of various therapeutically reported plants and the study
of their potential regdaring chromium metal decontamination. For characterization, the
techniques of X-ray Diffraction XRD and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy FTIR has been used. Waste water treatment is performed for adsorptiove removal of
chromium. Optimization is carried out using batch methods for various parameters like,
pH, adsorbent dose and time of contact. Isothermal and kinetics study have shown that
removal of chromium using silver nanocomposite was a feasible process, following
langmuir adsorption model and pseudo second order reaction kinetics.
