Water quality is deteriorating continuously as increasing levels of toxic inorganic and
organic contaminants mostly discharging into the aquatic environment. Removal of such …

Coal-fired power plants still dominate the electricity market in Southeast Asia, supplying
around 30% of the total demand, and the demand trend for this sector will continue to be …

Agricultural waste peels have been recognized as an ecological burden for the society.
However, waste peels, as lignocellulosic biomass-rich materials, have stimulated new …

Organic pollution is the term used when large quantities of organic compounds. It origi‐-
nates from domestic sewage, urban run-off, industrial effluents and agriculture wastewater …

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 …

The global usage of pesticides has increased by more than 1.5 times over the last three
decades. As a consequence, waters are increasingly contaminated by pesticides and their …

Due to the need to ameliorate the incessant presence of herbicides and pesticides (H & P) in
our waters, we appraised the recent advances in using adsorption technology. Of the …

Reports on pesticides elimination during wastewater treatment are rare since these
substances are typically considered of agricultural rather than of urban origin. In this context …

The prevalent occurrence of organophosphate pesticides in the environment is widely
accompanied by severe adverse impacts on environmental matrices and humans owing to …

In this work, the adsorption of 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2, 4-D) on activated carbon
derived from date stones (DSAC) was studied with respect to pH and initial 2, 4-D …