Nanomaterials as versatile adsorbents for heavy metal ions in water: a review

GK Sarma, S Sen Gupta, KG Bhattacharyya - Environmental Science and …, 2019 - Springer
Over the years, heavy metal pollution has become a very serious environmental problem
worldwide. Even though anthropogenic sources are believed to be the major cause of heavy …

Monolayer and multilayer adsorption isotherm models for sorption from aqueous media

R Saadi, Z Saadi, R Fazaeli, NE Fard - Korean Journal of Chemical …, 2015 - Springer
Industrial wastewater polluted with various contaminants, including heavy metals, dyes, etc.,
endangers human health and the environment. Various separation techniques have been …

Application of adsorption process for effective removal of emerging contaminants from water and wastewater

BS Rathi, PS Kumar - Environmental Pollution, 2021 - Elsevier
Emerging pollutants in the marine ecosystem, as well as their possible impact on live
species, have become a rising cause of worry. A traditional wastewater treatment plants …

Removal of basic dye Auramine-O by ZnS: Cu nanoparticles loaded on activated carbon: optimization of parameters using response surface methodology with central …

A Asfaram, M Ghaedi, S Agarwal, I Tyagi, VK Gupta - RSC advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
This research is focused on the ultrasound-assisted removal of Auramine-O (AO) dye from
aqueous solutions using ZnS: Cu nanoparticles loaded on activated carbon (ZnS: Cu-NP …

Size effect of polystyrene microplastics on sorption of phenanthrene and nitrobenzene

J Wang, X Liu, G Liu, Z Zhang, H Wu, B Cui… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Microplastics can have strong sorption capacity for many contaminants, thus greatly
influencing the fate, transport and bioavailability of those contaminants in the environment …

Comparison of the experimental results with the Langmuir and Freundlich models for copper removal on limestone adsorbent

TS Khayyun, AH Mseer - Applied Water Science, 2019 - Springer
The purpose of this study was to investigate the possibility of the limestone as an adsorbed
media and low-cost adsorbent. Batch adsorption studies were conducted to examine the …

Batch Sorption Experiments: Langmuir and Freundlich Isotherm Studies for the Adsorption of Textile Metal Ions onto Teff Straw (Eragrostis tef) Agricultural Waste

MB Desta - Journal of thermodynamics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Adsorption of heavy metals (Cr, Cd, Pb, Ni, and Cu) onto Activated Teff Straw (ATS) has
been studied using batch‐adsorption techniques. This study was carried out to examine the …

Biosorption of heavy metal ions using wheat based biosorbents–a review of the recent literature

U Farooq, JA Kozinski, MA Khan, M Athar - Bioresource technology, 2010 - Elsevier
Conventional technologies for the removal/remediation of toxic metal ions from wastewaters
are proving expensive due to non-regenerable materials used and high costs. Biosorption is …

A review of chitin and chitosan applications

MNVR Kumar - Reactive and functional polymers, 2000 - Elsevier
Chitin is the most abundant natural amino polysaccharide and is estimated to be produced
annually almost as much as cellulose. It has become of great interest not only as an …

Application of chitosan, a natural aminopolysaccharide, for dye removal from aqueous solutions by adsorption processes using batch studies: A review of recent …

G Crini, PM Badot - Progress in polymer science, 2008 - Elsevier
Application of chitinous products in wastewater treatment has received considerable
attention in recent years in the literature. In particular, the development of chitosan-based …