Biochar for the removal of emerging pollutants from aquatic systems: a review

M Dong, L He, M Jiang, Y Zhu, J Wang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Water contaminated with emerging pollutants has become a serious environmental issue
globally. Biochar is a porous and carbon-rich material produced from biomass pyrolysis and …

Recent advances in biochar application for water and wastewater treatment: a review

X Wang, Z Guo, Z Hu, J Zhang - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
In the past decade, researchers have carried out a massive amount of research on the
application of biochar for contaminants removal from aqueous solutions. As an emerging …

Adsorption of emerging contaminants from water and wastewater by modified biochar: A review

N Cheng, B Wang, P Wu, X Lee, Y Xing, M Chen… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Emerging contaminants (ECs), a group of relatively low-concentration but high-toxicity
pollutants in the environment, have attracted widespread attention in recent years. These …

Biochar as a sorbent for emerging contaminants enables improvements in waste management and sustainable resource use

L Li, D Zou, Z Xiao, X Zeng, L Zhang, L Jiang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Emerging contaminants have recently been recognized as new and significant water
pollutants and gained great of concerns because of their considerable effects on …

Application of biochar for the removal of pollutants from aqueous solutions

X Tan, Y Liu, G Zeng, X Wang, X Hu, Y Gu, Z Yang - Chemosphere, 2015 - Elsevier
In recent years, many studies have been devoted to investigate the application of biochar for
pollutants removal from aqueous solutions. Biochar exhibits a great potential to efficiently …

Engineered biochar for environmental decontamination in aquatic and soil systems: a review

H Chen, Y Gao, J Li, Z Fang, N Bolan, A Bhatnagar… - Carbon Research, 2022 - Springer
Contamination of aquatic and soil systems by organic and inorganic pollutants has become
a serious issue of concern worldwide. Viable and cost-effective solutions are urgently …

Application of biochar as functional material for remediation of organic pollutants in water: an overview

MF Gasim, ZY Choong, PL Koo, SC Low… - Catalysts, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, numerous studies have focused on the use of biochar as a biological
material for environmental remediation due to its low-cost precursor (waste), low toxicity, and …

Revealing selected groundwater contaminants, risks, and sustainable solutions for safe drinking water through pristine and modified biochar

YH Fseha, JF Shaheen, B Sizirici - Journal of Analytical and Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
Groundwater serves as the primary source of drinking water for nearly half of the world's
population. However, it is often contaminated with heavy metals, nitrates, fluorides …

A comprehensive review of biochar in removal of organic pollutants from wastewater: Characterization, toxicity, activation/functionalization and influencing treatment …

H Zeghioud, L Fryda, H Djelal, A Assadi… - Journal of Water Process …, 2022 - Elsevier
The current climate and environmental challenges demand novel and cost-effective
sustainable materials with a high efficacy and eco-friendly properties. Biochar (BC) has …

A review of mechanism and adsorption capacities of biochar-based engineered composites for removing aquatic pollutants from contaminated water

G Murtaza, Z Ahmed, DQ Dai, R Iqbal… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Water contamination by aquatic pollutants (antibiotics, heavy metals, nutrients, and organic
pollutants) has become the most serious issue of recent times due to associated human …