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BIO Web Conf.
Volume 131, 2024
6th International Conference on Tropical Resources and Sustainable Sciences (CTReSS 6.0)
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| Article Number | 05030 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Environmental Sustainability, Analytics and Technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/202413105030 | |
| Published online | 15 October 2024 | |
A Study on the Potential Microplastic Removal in Water
1 Faculty of Earth Science, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan Jeli Campus, 17600 Jeli, Kelantan.
2 Environment & Sustainable Development Research Group, Faculty of Earth Science, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, 17600 Jeli, Kelantan.
3 Animal and Wildlife Research Group, Faculty of Earth Science, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, 17600 Jeli, Kelantan.
4 International Ceramic Manufacturing Hub (ICMH), Batu 4, Jalan Batu Pahat, Kawasan Perindustrian Mengkibol, 86000 Kluang, Johor.
5 Centre of Management for Environment, Occupational Safety and Health, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, 16310 Bachok, Kelantan.
Water pollution is one of the major types of pollution in this world. Water pollution refers to the contamination of water with hazardous substances or chemicals that are harmful to human health, animals, and plants. Plastic comes in a wide variety of sizes, forms, and colours. Plastics can be dumped into the environment as poorly managed garbage and have the potential to indiscriminately contaminate water. Therefore, this study is focusing on the microplastic pollutants removal from contaminated water. Microplastics can be treated and removed in wastewater treatment using a variety of techniques such as membrane filtrations, adsorption, electrocoagulation, photocatalyst and many more. This study aim is to ascertain how effective it is to remove microplastics using magnetic activated carbon that has been produced from agriculture waste. As for the result, the highest percentage removal is Polyethylene (PE) which is 89.05% compared to other microplastic samples which is percentage removal for Polystyrene (PS) is 85.79% and Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) is 86.53%.
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