A review of the potential utilisation of plastic waste as adsorbent for removal of hazardous priority contaminants from aqueous environments

H Zhang, S Pap, MA Taggart, KG Boyd, NA James… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
There is growing global awareness of the presence and negative impacts of waste plastic in
the marine environment. Risks to wildlife include ingestion and entanglement for macro …

Dye removal from water and wastewater by nanosized metal oxides-modified activated carbon: a review on recent researches

D Nayeri, SA Mousavi - Journal of Environmental Health Science and …, 2020 - Springer
The conventional water and wastewater treatment methods are unable to provide up-to-data
organized standards for drinking water and discharging effluents into natural ecosystems …

Carboxymethyl cellulose/carboxylated graphene oxide composite microbeads for efficient adsorption of cationic methylene blue dye

AS Eltaweil, GS Elgarhy, GM El-Subruiti… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
An efficient composite adsorbent was fabricated based on carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC)
microbeads incorporated carboxylated graphene oxide (GOCOOH) for the adsorptive …

Optimization of heavy metal biosorption onto freshwater algae (Chlorella coloniales) using response surface methodology (RSM)

J Jaafari, K Yaghmaeian - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, the interaction of the initial metal concentration, time of reaction and Chlorella
coloniales algae dose were taken for the biosorption of Cr, Cd, Co, Fe and As from aqueous …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlinear regression analysis of the sorption of crystal violet and methylene blue from aqueous solutions onto an agro-waste derived activated carbon

EE Jasper, VO Ajibola, JC Onwuka - Applied Water Science, 2020 - Springer
Sorption of synthetic dyes on low-cost solid sorbents is a simple technique for their removal
from wastewater. Recent initiatives in the sorption process have sought the use of activated …

Verification of pore size effect on aqueous-phase adsorption kinetics: A case study of methylene blue

JO Ighalo, KO Iwuozor, CA Igwegbe… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to the negative environmental effect of methylene blue (MB), researchers have been
investigating several aspects of its adsorption. The kinetics/rapidity is an important aspect of …

[HTML][HTML] Cationic dye removal using novel magnetic/activated charcoal/β-cyclodextrin/alginate polymer nanocomposite

S Yadav, A Asthana, R Chakraborty, B Jain, AK Singh… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
New magnetic iron oxide (Fe3O4)/activated charcoal (AC)/β-cyclodextrin (CD)/sodium
alginate (Alg) polymer nanocomposite materials were prepared by direct mixing of the …

Role of sulfonation in lignin-based material for adsorption removal of cationic dyes

J Li, H Li, Z Yuan, J Fang, L Chang, H Zhang… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Sulfonate lignin-based hydrogels (SLG) were prepared through simple and effective method
and successfully applied to the adsorption of cation dye methylene blue (MB). Samples were …

Remediation of malachite green in wastewater by ZIF-8@ Fe/Ni nanoparticles based on adsorption and reduction

T Zhang, X Jin, G Owens, Z Chen - Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Dye-contaminated wastewater resulting from rapid industrialization and urbanization is a
global problem. In this study, a ZIF-8@ Fe/Ni sample was synthesized for the removal of …

Adsorption performance of chitosan Schiff base towards anionic dyes: Electrostatic interaction effects

C Huang, H Liao, X Ma, M Xiao, X Liu, S Gong… - Chemical Physics …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, an electropositive adsorbent, salicylaldehyde-chitosan Schiff base (SCSB),
was prepared via chitosan modification. The results showed that SCSB exhibited …