Application of date palm biowaste material as bioadsorbent for micropollutants: removal of diphenylamine from contaminated water

The conventional waste management practices generally goal to dispose biological waste from farms and forest. Many times these strategies, contribute to the environmental pollution like incineration and at the same time biomass is lost. This biowaste has a great potential of reuse so innovative thinking in this direction is desired. In present research date palm biowaste is applied to look for removal of diphenylamine from contaminated water samples. Date seed powder was applied to look into the removal of diphenylamine from contaminated water, ultraviolet visible spectroscopy results indicated decreased diphenylamine absorbance in date palm biowaste samples indicating sequestration of chemical pollutant from water. Our research suggested the possible application of date palm biowaste in micropollutant removal from contaminated water. Further research is needed in this direction to have full understanding of this phenomenon and to optimise this process so that it can be applied and executed at large scale. The application bio-waste produced by farming activities when applied as adsorbent for wastewater treatment, it can tackles water contamination, decreases the overall amount of agricultural waste, and reduces the potential gas emissions caused by waste transportation, treatment and disposal.