The relative impact of toxic heavy metals (THMs)(arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr)(VI), mercury (Hg), and lead (Pb)) on the total environment: an overview

Z Rahman, VP Singh - Environmental monitoring and assessment, 2019 - Springer
Certain five heavy metals viz. arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr)(VI), mercury (Hg),
and lead (Pb) are non-threshold toxins and can exert toxic effects at very low concentrations …

Photocatalytic activity of CuO nanoparticles for organic and inorganic pollutants removal in wastewater remediation

AK Sibhatu, GK Weldegebrieal, S Sagadevan, NN Tran… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Heterogeneous photocatalysis is a promising technology for eradicating organic, inorganic,
and microbial pollutants in water and wastewater remediation. It is a more preferable …

Review on heavy metal adsorption processes by carbon nanotubes

SS Fiyadh, MA AlSaadi, WZ Jaafar, MK AlOmar… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
The most important and indispensable substance for life on earth is water. Regrettably, the
growths of civilization, population, and industrssialization have led to a steady deterioration …

Arsenic, selenium, boron, lead, cadmium, copper, and zinc in naturally contaminated rocks: A review of their sources, modes of enrichment, mechanisms of release …

CB Tabelin, T Igarashi, M Villacorte-Tabelin… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Massive and ambitious underground space development projects are being undertaken by
many countries around the world to decongest megacities, improve the urban landscapes …

Active MnO2/biochar composite for efficient As (III) removal: Insight into the mechanisms of redox transformation and adsorption

DV Cuong, PC Wu, LI Chen, CH Hou - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
In the present work, an active MnO2/rice husk biochar (BC) composite (MBC) was prepared
to enhance As (III) removal for groundwater remediation. The MBC material obtained an …

Heavy metal removal from aqueous solution by advanced carbon nanotubes: critical review of adsorption applications

A Abbas, AM Al-Amer, T Laoui, MJ Al-Marri… - Separation and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The scarcity of water, especially in arid and semi-arid regions of the world is exerting great
pressure on resources and establishing more need to provide good quality water for human …

Arsenic contamination, consequences and remediation techniques: a review

R Singh, S Singh, P Parihar, VP Singh… - … and environmental safety, 2015 - Elsevier
The exposure to low or high concentrations of arsenic (As), either due to the direct
consumption of As contaminated drinking water, or indirectly through daily intake of As …

Treatment of organic pollutants by homogeneous and heterogeneous Fenton reaction processes

B Jain, AK Singh, H Kim, E Lichtfouse… - Environmental Chemistry …, 2018 - Springer
Nowadays, the water ecosystem is being polluted due to the rapid industrialization and
massive use of antibiotics, fertilizers, cosmetics, paints, and other chemicals. Chemical …

The global menace of arsenic and its conventional remediation-A critical review

A Sarkar, B Paul - Chemosphere, 2016 - Elsevier
Arsenic is a ubiquitous element found in the earth crust with a varying concentration in the
earth soil and water. Arsenic has always been under the scanner due to its toxicity in human …

Water depollution using metal-organic frameworks-catalyzed advanced oxidation processes: A review

VK Sharma, M Feng - Journal of hazardous materials, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review on the environmental applications of metal-organic
frameworks (MOFs), which are inorganic-organic hybrid highly porous crystalline materials …