A comprehensive review on sources, analysis and toxicity of environmental pollutants and its removal methods from water environment

A Saravanan, PS Kumar, RV Hemavathy… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural and human anthropogenic activities increase the concentration of the toxic pollutant
in the water environment; they could cause harmful effects even in their lower concentration …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of inorganic acid modification on Cr (VI) adsorption performance and the physicochemical properties of activated carbon

M Lesaoana, RPV Mlaba, FM Mtunzi, MJ Klink… - South African Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Macadamia activated carbon (MAC) was impregnated with different concentrations of
sulphuric or phosphoric or nitric acid ranging from 20 to 60% v/v and heated in a muffle …

Green fabrication of bentonite/chitosan@ cobalt oxide composite (BE/CH@ Co) of enhanced adsorption and advanced oxidation removal of Congo red dye and Cr (VI …

MR Abukhadra, A Adlii, BM Bakry - International journal of biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Bentonite/chitosan composite supported by green fabricated Co 3 O 4 was successfully
synthesized and its physicochemical properties were investigated utilizing several analytic …

Adsorption of crystal violet from aqueous solution onto NaOH-modified rice husk

S Chakraborty, S Chowdhury, PD Saha - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2011 - Elsevier
In this study, equilibrium, kinetics and thermodynamics of Crystal Violet (CV) adsorption onto
NaOH-modified rice husk (NMRH) was investigated. Experiments were carried out as …

Sea shell powder as a new adsorbent to remove Basic Green 4 (Malachite Green) from aqueous solutions: Equilibrium, kinetic and thermodynamic studies

S Chowdhury, P Saha - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2010 - Elsevier
In this work the feasibility of employing sea shell powder to remove Basic Green 4 (BG 4), a
cationic dye from its aqueous solutions was investigated. Parameters that influence the …

Modeling of microwave-assisted extraction of natural dye from seeds of Bixa orellana (Annatto) using response surface methodology (RSM) and artificial neural …

K Sinha, S Chowdhury, PD Saha, S Datta - Industrial Crops and Products, 2013 - Elsevier
With ever increasing demand for eco-friendly, non-toxic colorants, dyes derived from natural
sources have emerged as a potential alternative to relatively toxic synthetic dyes. In the …

Adsorption removal of safranin dye contaminants from water using various types of natural zeolite

MR Abukhadra, AS Mohamed - Silicon, 2019 - Springer
The presented study involved detail investigation for the adsorption properties of three types
of natural zeolite (heulandite, clinoptilolite, and phillipsite). The studied zeolite samples were …

[HTML][HTML] Equilibrium, kinetic and diffusion mechanism of Cr (VI) adsorption onto activated carbon derived from wood apple shell

KM Doke, EM Khan - Arabian journal of chemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
In the present investigation, adsorbent activated charcoal was prepared from wood apple
shell by chemical activation and used for Cr (VI) removal from aqueous solutions. Powdered …

Effective decontamination of phosphate and ammonium utilizing novel muscovite/phillipsite composite; equilibrium investigation and realistic application

MR Abukhadra, M Mostafa - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Novel muscovite/synthetic zeolitic phillipsite composite (Mu/Ph) was synthesized and
inspected by different analytical techniques as a hybrid product of enhanced …

Application of response surface methodology for preparation of low-cost adsorbent from citrus fruit peel and for removal of methylene blue

S Dutta, A Bhattacharyya, A Ganguly, S Gupta, S Basu - Desalination, 2011 - Elsevier
A low-cost adsorbent has been prepared by carbonizing citrus fruit peel using o-phosphoric
acid as an activating agent and investigation has been made to explore the possibility of this …