Recent advances in using of chitosan-based adsorbents for removal of pharmaceutical contaminants: A review

H Karimi-Maleh, A Ayati, R Davoodi, B Tanhaei… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
During recent years, the pharmaceutical compounds have been considered as an emerging
water micro-pollutant, due to their potential eco-toxicity. Among the various treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into recent advances of chitosan-based adsorbents for sustainable removal of heavy metals and anions

AM Omer, R Dey, AS Eltaweil… - Arabian Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
With globally increased human population and industrialization, the natural sources of water
are reduced and then contaminated. Therefore, development of advanced technologies for …

Insight into the adsorption kinetics models for the removal of contaminants from aqueous solutions

KL Tan, BH Hameed - Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical …, 2017 - Elsevier
The past decade has seen a boom in environmental adsorption studies on the adsorptive
removal of pollutants from the aqueous phase. A large majority of works treat kinetic …

Review on recent progress in chitosan-based hydrogels for wastewater treatment application

PM Pakdel, SJ Peighambardoust - Carbohydrate polymers, 2018 - Elsevier
Recently, chitosan has been used as a raw material for synthesis of hydrogels in a wide
range of potential and practical applications like wastewater treatment, drug delivery, and …

Endocrine-disrupting compounds: An overview on their occurrence in the aquatic environment and human exposure

C Pironti, M Ricciardi, A Proto, PM Bianco, L Montano… - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs) as emerging contaminants have accumulated in
the aquatic environment at concentration levels that have been determined to be significant …

Adsorption of pharmaceuticals from water and wastewater using nonconventional low-cost materials: a review

JR de Andrade, MF Oliveira, MGC da Silva… - Industrial & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Pharmaceuticals are environmental contaminants that have been widely detected in aquatic
media. In this review, the occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the environment, its major …

Recent modifications of chitosan for adsorption applications: a critical and systematic review

GZ Kyzas, DN Bikiaris - Marine drugs, 2015 - mdpi.com
Chitosan is considered to be one of the most promising and applicable materials in
adsorption applications. The existence of amino and hydroxyl groups in its molecules …

Synthesis and adsorption application of succinyl-grafted chitosan for the simultaneous removal of zinc and cationic dye from binary hazardous mixtures

GZ Kyzas, PI Siafaka, EG Pavlidou, KJ Chrissafis… - Chemical Engineering …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this work, a grafted (with carboxylic groups) chitosan material was synthesized and the
adsorption mechanism of a basic dye (Remarcyl Red TGL denoted as CR) and a heavy …

Mitigation of pollutants by chitosan/metallic oxide photocatalyst: a review

MAM Adnan, BL Phoon, NM Julkapli - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
The semiconductor photocatalysis system has been the subject of numerous investigations,
as it is an attractive technique for complete mitigation of undesirable pollutant in waste water …

New approaches on the removal of pharmaceuticals from wastewaters with adsorbent materials

GZ Kyzas, J Fu, NK Lazaridis, DN Bikiaris… - Journal of molecular …, 2015 - Elsevier
This review article summarizes the alternative use of adsorbent materials for treatment of
pharmaceutical wastewaters. Pharmaceutical wastewaters are very hazardous and toxic not …