Residual pollutants in discharged and reused water pose both direct and indirect human
exposure. However, health effects caused by whole effluent remain largely unknown due to …

Medicinal plants have been employed as an alternative method to treat diabetes. One is
Cissus sicyoides, a plant from the Amazon region (Northern Brazil), which is morphologically …

The transformation of skin in-natura into leather in tannery industries generates large
volumes of organic matter that attract small mammals. ie, rodents living close to these …

This paper reports the evaluation of adsorbing Cr (VI) ions on sorbent prepared from
chitosan (CHT), a versatile derivative of chitin, and dodecyl amine modified locally available …

Although the toxic potential of tannery effluents (TE) is acknowledged, the impacts these
residues have on mammals who intake water contaminated with this pollutant are not …

The leather industry is one of the major producers of wastewater, releasing large amounts of
various chemicals into the environment. Chromium (Cr) is the most commonly used agent in …

The leather tanning process generates a large amount of residue. The present work aims to
apply an experimental design to assess several parameters of different advanced oxidation …

Batch experiments were used to evaluate the Brazilian São Simão kaolinite (Kao), the
Spanish Yuncillos saponite (Sa), and their derivatives organofunctionalized with 3 …

In this study, a biodegradable spherical adsorbent bead was developed from eggshell (ES)
and Bijoypur clay (BC) for the removal of hexavalent chromium from synthetic tannery …

Leather processing is characterized by the generation of effluents with a high concentration
of ammonia nitrogen (N-NH4+) and the presence of fungicides. This study evaluated the …