Removal of lead ions (Pb2+) from water and wastewater: a review on the low-cost adsorbents

IR Chowdhury, S Chowdhury, MAJ Mazumder… - Applied Water …, 2022 - Springer
The presence of lead compounds in the environment is an issue. In particular, supply water
consumption has been reported to be a significant source of human exposure to lead …

Current and emerging adsorbent technologies for wastewater treatment: trends, limitations, and environmental implications

F Younas, A Mustafa, ZUR Farooqi, X Wang, S Younas… - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Wastewater generation and treatment is an ever-increasing concern in the current century
due to increased urbanization and industrialization. To tackle the situation of increasing …

Competitive adsorption of heavy metals in aqueous solution onto biochar derived from anaerobically digested sludge

BJ Ni, QS Huang, C Wang, TY Ni, J Sun, W Wei - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Heavy metals often coexist in contaminated wastewater systems and their competitive
behavior could affect the adsorption capacity of biochar. Till now, the competitive adsorption …

Natural, low-cost adsorbents for toxic Pb (II) ion sequestration from (waste) water: A state-of-the-art review

PO Oladoye - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Pb (II) ions is an inorganic pollutant that is present in the environment. Its presence affects
both human health and ecosystem. Economically, amongst many wastewater treatment …

Is biosorption suitable for decontamination of metal-bearing wastewaters? A critical review on the state-of-the-art of biosorption processes and future directions

K Vijayaraghavan, R Balasubramanian - Journal of environmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
For the past few decades, biosorption has been widely investigated for the removal of
different contaminants in aqueous media. A number of biomasses of different genre have …

Equilibrium and kinetic studies in adsorption of heavy metals using biosorbent: a summary of recent studies

J Febrianto, AN Kosasih, J Sunarso, YH Ju… - Journal of hazardous …, 2009 - Elsevier
Distinctive adsorption equilibria and kinetic models are of extensive use in explaining the
biosorption of heavy metals, denoting the need to highlight and summarize their essential …

Brewer's Saccharomyces yeast biomass: characteristics and potential applications

I Ferreira, O Pinho, E Vieira, JG Tavarela - Trends in food science & …, 2010 - Elsevier
Saccharomyces yeast biomass is the second major by-product from brewing industry. It can
be of value as a raw material with different uses, however, it is still underutilized, mostly, for …

[HTML][HTML] Adsorption of tetracycline fom wastewater by using Pistachio shell coated with ZnO nanoparticles: Equilibrium, kinetic and isotherm studies

AA Mohammed, SL Kareem - Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
This study investigated the efficiency of the Pistachio shell coated with ZnO nanoparticles
(CPS) for Tetracycline (TEC) sequestration from wastewater. Characterization of CPS were …

Biosorption technology for removal of toxic metals: a review of commercial biosorbents and patents

GR de Freitas, MGC da Silva, MGA Vieira - Environmental Science and …, 2019 - Springer
In last decades, the biosorption process has become one of the main alternative treatment
technologies for the removal of pollutants from dilute aqueous solution. Among these …

Removal of hexavalent chromium by heat inactivated fungal biomass of Termitomyces clypeatus: Surface characterization and mechanism of biosorption

L Ramrakhiani, R Majumder, S Khowala - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2011 - Elsevier
Mechanism of Cr (VI) biosorption by heat inactivated fungal biomass of Termitomyces
clypeatus was studied by analyzing its pH profile and surface chemistry. The biosorption …