Iron is the most essential nutrient required for every life form, including humans but it is required to the certain extent. If the concentration of this iron increase beyond its permissible limit given by WHO/FAO it can cause dangerous diseases because iron is a potent oxidizer and can damage your body tissues contributing to serious health issues including: Cirrhosis, Liver cancer, Cardiac arrhythmias, Diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, Bacterial and viral infections. So it has become necessary to remove that iron contamination which can cause harm to the human body. The present work is related with the preparation of low cost adsorbent using Waste Orange Peel so as to evaluate the cheapest and easiest means of iron removal and to find an effective suitable low cost adsorbent. The Nag River water was used as source of Iron contaminated water. Orange peels were carbonized in muffle furnace at 500°c for two hours. Then it was activated using different activating agents such as HCL, HNO3 and H2SO4. The analysis of Iron was done by 1, 10 phenanthroline method using UV Visible Spectrophotometer (Model no. 108, Sstronics). The results showed that the adsorbent prepared by orange peel has a potential capacity to remove iron and it further increases strongly after its activation. During the study of activating agents it was found that charcoal activated with HCL can remove around 90-100% iron followed by HNO3 (70-80%) and H2SO4 (65-75%).
