Adsorption kinetic models: Physical meanings, applications, and solving methods

J Wang, X Guo - Journal of Hazardous materials, 2020 - Elsevier
Adsorption technology has been widely applied in water and wastewater treatment, due to
its low cost and high efficiency. The adsorption kinetic models have been used to evaluate …

Spent coffee grounds: A review on current utilization

J McNutt - Journal of industrial and engineering chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Coffee, one of the world's most popular beverages, carries with it a large economic and
environmental burden in the form of spent coffee grounds (SCG), the unutilized portion of the …

Valorization of spent coffee grounds: A review

A Kovalcik, S Obruca, I Marova - Food and Bioproducts Processing, 2018 - Elsevier
Spent coffee grounds (SCGs) arise as waste products through the production of instant
coffee and coffee brewing. This work reviews the composition of SCGs, the methods used for …

A spent coffee grounds based biorefinery for the production of biofuels, biopolymers, antioxidants and biocomposites

SK Karmee - Waste management, 2018 - Elsevier
Spent coffee grounds are composed of lipid, carbohydrates, carbonaceous, and nitrogen
containing compounds among others. Using n-hexane and n-hexane/isopropanol mixture …

Value-added products from coffee waste: a review

YG Lee, EJ Cho, S Maskey, DT Nguyen, HJ Bae - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Coffee waste is often viewed as a problem, but it can be converted into value-added
products if managed with clean technologies and long-term waste management strategies …

Waste biomass adsorbents for copper removal from industrial wastewater—a review

M Bilal, JA Shah, T Ashfaq, SMH Gardazi… - Journal of hazardous …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Copper (Cu 2+) containing wastewaters are extensively released from different
industries and its excessive entry into food chains results in serious health impairments …

Chitosan/waste coffee-grounds composite: An efficient and eco-friendly adsorbent for removal of pharmaceutical contaminants from water

EF Lessa, ML Nunes, AR Fajardo - Carbohydrate polymers, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Waste coffee-grounds (WCG), a poorly explored source of biocompounds, were
combined with chitosan (Cs) and poly (vinyl alcohol)(PVA) in order to obtain composites …

Removal of pollutants from wastewater using coffee waste as adsorbent: A review

LL Kang, YN Zeng, YT Wang, JG Li, FP Wang… - Journal of Water …, 2022 - Elsevier
The problem of water pollution is becoming more and more serious, and many pollutants are
carcinogenic and pose a serious threat to global sustainable and green development …

Simultaneous co-hydrothermal carbonization and chemical activation of food wastes to develop hydrochar for aquatic environmental remediation

SA Alshareef, AA Alqadami, MA Khan, HS Alanazi… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Locally generated food wastes, such as Arabic coffee ground (ACG) and olive oil cake
(OOC) were converted to N-ACG: OOC–3 hydrochar (HC) through simultaneous co …

Degradation of sulfamethoxazole with persulfate using spent coffee grounds biochar as activator

A Lykoudi, Z Frontistis, J Vakros, ID Manariotis… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the present study, biochar from spent coffee grounds was synthesized via pyrolysis at
850° C for 1 h, characterized and employed as catalyst for the degradation of …