Agricultural bio-waste materials as potential sustainable precursors used for activated carbon production: A review

MA Yahya, Z Al-Qodah, CWZ Ngah - Renewable and sustainable energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
A review on the preparation of the activated carbon from agricultural waste material is
presented. The physical properties such as proximate and ultimate analysis of agricultural …

Recent advances in detection and removal of heavy metals from contaminated water

P Punia, MK Bharti, R Dhar, P Thakur… - ChemBioEng …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The water treatment process by removing heavy metals from polluted sources is explained
in detail. Various detection and removal techniques and their modeling for heavy metal …

Utilization of agro-industrial and municipal waste materials as potential adsorbents for water treatment—a review

A Bhatnagar, M Sillanpää - Chemical engineering journal, 2010 - Elsevier
Adsorption process has been proven one of the best water treatment technologies around
the world and activated carbon is undoubtedly considered as universal adsorbent for the …

Electrospun carbon nanofibres: preparation, characterization and application for adsorption of pollutants from water and air

TC Mokhena, KP Matabola, TH Mokhothu… - Separation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrospun carbon nanofibres (E-CNFs) are attractive materials with a huge potential to be
applied in different fields such as water remediation, air purification, sensing, and …

[PDF][PDF] Effects of activating agents on the activated carbons prepared from lapsi seed stone

J Sahira, A Mandira, PB Prasad, PR Ram - Research Journal of Chemical …, 2013 - isca.me
Activated carbon has been known as an excellent adsorbent and is widely used due to its
large adsorption capacity. Activating agents influence surface area and porosity of the …

[HTML][HTML] Activated carbon: a review of residual precursors, synthesis processes, characterization techniques, and applications in the improvement of biogas

JA Sosa, JR Laines, DS García, R Hernández… - Environmental …, 2023 - eeer.org
The energy growing demand and the international environmental policies contribute to the
use of renewable energy sources. Among these sources, biogas has acquired great …

Adsorption of aqueous Hg (II) by sulfur-impregnated activated carbon

J Wang, B Deng, X Wang, J Zheng - Environmental Engineering …, 2009 - liebertpub.com
A series of sulfur-containing activated carbons was prepared by impregnating a powdered
activated carbon with elemental sulfur at different temperatures for the removal of Hg (II) from …

Removal of mercury (II) from aqueous solution: a review of recent work

A Sharma, A Sharma, RK Arya - Separation Science and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Mercury is one of the most toxic heavy metals in existence. It is toxic at one in one billion part
quantities. Just like chemical toxicity, heavy metal toxicity has become one of the most …

Preparation of nanocomposite activated carbon nanofiber/manganese oxide and its adsorptive performance toward leads (II) from aqueous solution

N Abdullah, FEC Othman, N Yusof, T Matsuura… - Journal of Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
Herein this study, nanocomposite activated carbon nanofibers embedded with MnO 2
(called as ACNFs/MnO 2) were prepared by carbonization and activation of electrospun …

Removal of Bi (III) with adsorption technique using coconut shell activated carbon

A Sartape, A Mandhare, P Salvi, D Pawar… - Chinese journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
In present study, we report the preparation of coconut shell activated carbon as adsorbent
and its application for Bi (III) removal from aqueous solutions. The developed adsorbent was …