The need to develop a new effective and efficient adsorbent for pollutant removal is insatiable. Tiger-nut activated carbon-zeolite composite (STC) was prepared using sol-gel method by mixing zeolite A and prepared steam activated carbon from tigernut using thermal method for removal of Cr (VI), Pb (II) and Cd (II) from aqueous solution. The material was characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDX) and Brunauer–Emmette–Teller (BET) respectively. Characteristic vibrational frequency surface area methods.