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Cellulosic fibers — Biosorptive materials and indicators of heavy metals pollution

Cellulosic fibers are part of plants which can be used as efficient biosorptive materials and indicators of heavy metal pollution. Since their application varies significantly with regard to their natural metal content, the scope of this work was to develop protocols of elemental characterization and toxic metal determination in different cellulosic fibers (cotton, flax and hemp). Therefore several extraction procedures (liquid/solid extraction (LSE), ultrasonic extraction (UE) andmicrowave extraction (ME)) and digestionmethods (dry ashing, open-vessel digestion and microwave digestion (MD))were applied to monitor the total and the extractable amounts of different metals in fibers. All extraction experiments were designed and optimized by multiparameter optimization methods. Analytical procedure applied formonitoring ofmetals was inductively coupled plasma–optical emission spectrometry (ICP–OES). The analytical procedures were developed by certified reference material IAEA-V9 and afterwards applied on cellulose samples (fibers andmaterials). Obtained results have shown that all cellulosic natural fibers are suitable to be bio-adsorbers and indicators of environmental pollution. Among all tested materials the most efficient bio-adsorber was flax, making this plant ideal for removal of considerable quantities of metals when growing at polluted soils.

heavy metal pollution; extraction; digestion; biosorption; fibers; ICP–OES

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