Studies on potential applications of biomass for the separation of heavy metals from water and wastewater

SO Lesmana, N Febriana, FE Soetaredjo… - Biochemical …, 2009 - Elsevier
Heavy metal pollution has become a more serious environmental problem in the last several
decades as a result of its toxicity and insusceptibility to the environment. This paper attempts …

Potential of biological materials for removing heavy metals from wastewater

B Dhir - Environmental science and pollution research, 2014 - Springer
Agricultural products/by-products are natural sorbent materials that possess capacity for
removing contaminants including heavy metals from wastewaters and hence can be …

Removal of toxic metal Cr (VI) from aqueous solutions using sawdust as adsorbent: Equilibrium, kinetics and regeneration studies

S Gupta, BV Babu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2009 - Elsevier
In the present study, a low-cost adsorbent is developed from the naturally and abundantly
available sawdust which is biodegradable. The removal capacity of Cr (VI) from aqueous …

Adsorbent

P Pourhakkak, M Taghizadeh, A Taghizadeh… - Interface Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The adsorption process, a well-known surface phenomenon, has been commonly applied
for enzyme immobilization for the separation and purification of polluted water resources …

Surface modified leaves with high efficiency for the removal of aqueous Cr (VI)

Y Zhang, M Li, J Li, Y Yang, X Liu - Applied Surface Science, 2019 - Elsevier
The pollution of chromium wastewater is becoming more and more serious. Biological
adsorption of hexavalent chromium (Cr (VI)) is an effective waste water treatment …

Optimizing the Biosorption Behavior of Ludwigia stolonifera in the Removal of Lead and Chromium Metal Ions from Synthetic Wastewater

YA El-Amier, A Elsayed, MA El-Esawi, A Noureldeen… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this study, a natural low-coast, efficient, and eco-bio-sorbent plant material (Ludwigia
stolonifera), with both parts of the root and shoot, were studied for the removal of the cationic …

Performance of cabbage and cauliflower wastes for heavy metals removal

MA Hossain, HH Ngo, WS Guo, TV Nguyen… - … and Water Treatment, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
From this study, the cabbage and cauliflower, a well-known agro-waste were used as
biosorbents for removing toxic lead (II) and cadmium (II) from water. A batch of experiments …

Removal of hexavalent chromium from aqueous solutions using barks of Acacia albida and leaves of Euclea schimperi

G Gebrehawaria, A Hussen, VM Rao - International Journal of …, 2015 - Springer
Removal of hexavalent chromium ions [Cr (VI)] from aqueous solutions by adsorbents
prepared from barks of Acacia albida of Fabaceae family and leaves of Euclea schimperi of …

Treatment of water containg chromium (VI) using rice husk carbon as a newlow cost adsorbent

SR Singh, AP Singh - 2012 - sid.ir
Presence of heavy metals in the aquatic systems has become a serious problem. As a result,
there has been a great deal of attention given to new technologies for removal of heavy …

[PDF][PDF] Heavy metal removal from wastewaters by agricultural waste low-cost adsorbents: Hindrances of adsorption technology to the large scale industrial application …

A Habineza, J Zhai, T Ntakirutimana, FP Qiu… - Desalin. Water …, 2017 - academia.edu
This review paper provides a critical examination on heavy metal removal from wastewaters
by the agrowaste low-cost adsorbents, with focus on:(i) water pollution by heavy metals and …