Testing of Natural Sorbents for the Assessment of Heavy Metal Ions’ Adsorption

Nowadays, the sorption-oriented approach is on agenda in remediation practices of lands contaminated with heavy metals. The current growing quantity research accounts for different sorbents. However, there still a lack studies utilizing economic criteria. Therefore, to ensure wide application opportunities, one necessary requirements their efficiency use. By these criteria, this manuscript researches generally accepted natural sorbents assessment metal ions’ adsorption, such as peat, diatomite, vermiculite and mixtures proportions physical shapes. methodological base study consists volumetric (titrimetric) method, X-ray fluorescence spectrometry atomic absorption spectrometry. Experimental tests show certain decline adsorption from aqueous salt solutes follows: granular peat–diatomite > large-fraction medium-fraction non-granular diatomite.