Advances in biosorbents for removal of environmental pollutants: A review on pretreatment, removal mechanism and future outlook

PR Yaashikaa, PS Kumar, A Saravanan… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Environmental pollutants are a serious threat for decades causing contamination of soil and
water systems. The release from various industries is the main source of these pollutants …

Heavy metal-contained wastewater in China: Discharge, management and treatment

Q Li, G Liu, L Qi, H Wang, Z Ye, Q Zhao - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
A large amount of heavy metal-contained wastewater (HMW) was discharged during
Chinese industry development, which has caused many environmental problems. This study …

Removal of Cd (II) and Pb (II) from synthetic wastewater using Rosa damascena waste as a biosorbent: An insight into adsorption mechanisms, kinetics, and …

F Batool, A Mohyuddin, A Amjad, A ul Hassan… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to their toxicity to public health, the presence of inorganic pollutants in the aquatic
environment have become a global concern. This work investigates the technical feasibility …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient removal of Pb (II) and Cd (II) from aqueous solutions by mango seed biosorbent

Q Wang, Y Wang, Z Yang, W Han, L Yuan… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abundant fruit waste materials can be utilized as sustainable biosorbents for heavy metal
removal from aqueous solutions. In this study, mango seed (MS) comprising seed kernel …

[HTML][HTML] Characteristic and biosorption capacities of orange peels biosorbents for removal of ammonia and nitrate from contaminated water

S Dey, SR Basha, GV Babu, T Nagendra - Cleaner Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
The ammonia and nitrate are one of the most common groundwater contaminants present in
the rural areas. Therefore it is necessary to remove ammonia and nitrate from water. There …

Bioremediation of heavy metals from the aqueous environment using Artocarpus heterophyllus (jackfruit) seed as a novel biosorbent

S Maity, PB Patil, S SenSharma, A Sarkar - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Biosorption is an environment-friendly and economic technique to remediate heavy metals
from aqueous systems. In the present study, Artocarpus heterophyllus seed powder was …

[HTML][HTML] New insights into the interactions between Pb (II) and fruit waste biosorbent

Q Wang, Y Wang, J Tang, Z Yang, L Zhang, X Huang - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Fruit waste is a sustainable biosorbent for heavy metal removal from wastewater. Elucidation
of adsorption mechanism is imperative for the process control and development of effective …

Agricultural byproducts used as low-cost adsorbents for removal of potentially toxic elements from wastewater: a comprehensive review

EL Ungureanu, AL Mocanu, CA Stroe, CM Panciu… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Potentially toxic elements (PTEs) are ubiquitous chemical compounds in the environment
due to contamination of air, water, or soil. They are primarily sourced from fossil fuel …

Quantification of the antagonistic and synergistic effects of Pb2+, Cu2+, and Zn2+ bioaccumulation by living Bacillus subtilis biomass using XGBoost and SHAP

S Wang, Y Zhou, X You, B Wang, L Du - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Bioaccumulation and adsorption are efficient methods for removing heavy metal ions (HMIs)
from aqueous environments. However, methods to quantifiably characterize the removal …

[HTML][HTML] The role of biomass elemental composition and ion-exchange in metal sorption by algae

ARF Carreira, T Veloso, IPE Macário, JL Pereira… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of macroalgae, microalgae and cyanobacteria for metal sorption has been widely
reported. Still, there are no studies allowing a direct comparison of the performance of these …