Patent ID: 11896952
Assignee: KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  C | IPC B  C

Claim 0:
1. A method of making an adsorbent composite from lemon peel and a polymer, the method comprising:
obtaining lemon peels;
cutting and drying the lemon peels to obtain lemon peel pieces;
activating the dried lemon peel pieces to obtain activated lemon peel pieces;
pyrolyzing the activated lemon peel pieces to obtain activated lemon peel chars;
dissolving at least one polymer in an organic solvent to obtain a polymer solution;
dispersing the activated lemon peel chars in the polymer solution to obtain a mixture;
extracting the organic solvent from the mixture to obtain a composite; and
annealing the composite to provide the adsorbent composite.