Table 5. Adsorption capacities of different adsorbents for Cr(VI).

Adsorbent

Q^o (mg/g)

Saw dust (Dikshit, 1989)

16.05

Leaf mould (Sharma and Forster, 1994)

43.00

Maize cob (Sharma and Forster, 1994)

13.80

Palm pressed fibres (Tan et al. 1993)

15.00

Pinnus sylvestris bark
(activated by 0.05 N NaCl) (Alves et al. 1993)
O. anthropi (Ozdemir et al. 2003)

19.50
86.20

CFTS (present work)

74.62

H-TS (present work)

140.84

PTS2 (present work)

151.51