Organic xenobiotics removal in constructed wetlands, with emphasis on the importance of the support matrix

AV Dordio, AJP Carvalho - Journal of Hazardous materials, 2013 - Elsevier
Constructed wetlands (CWs) are increasingly popular as an efficient and economical
alternative to conventional wastewater treatment processes for removal, among other …

Endosulfan removal through bioremediation, photocatalytic degradation, adsorption and membrane separation processes: a review

A Mudhoo, A Bhatnagar, M Rantalankila… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
Endosulfan is a highly polluting and toxic pesticide which has been used in many areas
globally to control pests in view to improve productivity. Concomitantly, endosulfan has also …

Removal of endosulfan from water by municipal waste incineration fly ash-based geopolymers: Adsorption kinetics, isotherms, and thermodynamics

I Luttah, DO Onunga, VO Shikuku, B Otieno… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Alkali-activated municipal waste incineration fly ash (MWFA)-based geopolymers (GPA,
GPB, and GPC) were synthesized under different sodium silicate to sodium hydroxide …

Sorption of pesticide endosulfan by electrodialysis membranes

LJ Banasiak, B Van der Bruggen, AI Schäfer - Chemical engineering …, 2011 - Elsevier
Endosulfan (ES) is a micropollutant found in reverse osmosis concentrates from water reuse
applications. Electrodialysis (ED) can remove and recover charged solutes from such …

Imidazolium based ionic liquids in soils: effects of the side chain length on wheat (Triticum aestivum) and cress (Lepidium sativum) as affected by different clays and …

M Matzke, S Stolte, J Arning, U Uebers, J Filser - Green Chemistry, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
This study provides data on the behaviour and toxicity of selected imidazolium based ionic
liquids in the terrestrial environment with the aim to contribute to a prospective hazard …

Adsorption of low concentration humic acid from water by palygorskite

M Wang, L Liao, X Zhang, Z Li - Applied Clay Science, 2012 - Elsevier
Humic acid (HA) is a common contaminant in groundwater and surface water. Many efforts
were made to use high efficiency low cost materials to remove HA from water. In this study …

Desorption of ciprofloxacin from clay mineral surfaces

Q Wu, Z Li, H Hong, R Li, WT Jiang - Water Research, 2013 - Elsevier
Desorption from soil clay components may affect the transport and fate of antibiotics in the
environment. In this study, ciprofloxacin (CIP) desorption from a kaolinite and a …

Feasibility of montmorillonite-assisted adsorption process for the effective treatment of organo-pesticides

SFA Shattar, NA Zakaria, KY Foo - Desalination and Water …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Over the years, the emergence of pesticides practice has prevailed to be the most intricate
environmental turmoil amongst the scientific community. Specifically, pesticides constitute …

Effectiveness of Vetiver Grass (Vetiveria Zizanioides L. Nash) for Phytoremediation of Endosulfan in Two Cotton Soils from Burkina Faso

NOZ Abaga, S Dousset, C Munier-Lamy… - International journal of …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The influence of vetiver grass (Vetiveria zizanioides) on the fate of endosulfan was studied
using a vertisol and a lixisol soils from cotton-growing areas of Burkina Faso. Endosulfan …

Strategy for extracting DNA from clay soil and detecting a specific target sequence via selective enrichment and real-time (quantitative) PCR amplification

KK Yankson, TR Steck - Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
We present a simple strategy for isolating and accurately enumerating target DNA from high-
clay-content soils: desorption with buffers, an optional magnetic capture hybridization step …