[HTML][HTML] A review on biosorptive removal of dyes and heavy metals from wastewater using watermelon rind as biosorbent

C Bhattacharjee, S Dutta, VK Saxena - Environmental Advances, 2020 - Elsevier
Sustainable wastewater treatment is one of the foremost challenges of twenty first century.
With the ever increasing levels of industrial toxic sludge disposal to water bodies, finding …

Valorization of food waste as adsorbents for toxic dye removal from contaminated waters: A review

A Sridhar, M Ponnuchamy, A Kapoor… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Industrial contaminants such as dyes and intermediates are released into water bodies,
making the water unfit for human use. At the same time large amounts of food wastes …

Recovery of high value-added compounds from pineapple, melon, watermelon and pumpkin processing by-products: An overview

X Rico, B Gullón, JL Alonso, R Yáñez - Food Research International, 2020 - Elsevier
Nowadays, fruit and vegetable industries generate huge amounts of under-utilized by-
products with a great economic potential. The processing by-products account from 25 up to …

Agricultural biomass/waste as adsorbents for toxic metal decontamination of aqueous solutions

I Anastopoulos, I Pashalidis… - Journal of Molecular …, 2019 - Elsevier
Toxic metals can be present in the environment, causing negative effects on the ecosystem
and human health. Although several technologies have been used for decontamination …

Magnetic hydrochar grafted-chitosan for enhanced efficient adsorption of malachite green dye from aqueous solutions: Modeling, adsorption behavior, and …

JS Algethami, MAM Alhamami, AA Alqadami… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Water pollution by organic dyes is one of the most serious environmental problems
worldwide. Malachite green (MG) is considered as one the serious organic dyes which is …

Pectins from food waste: Extraction, characterization and properties of watermelon rind pectin

CLO Petkowicz, LC Vriesmann, PA Williams - Food Hydrocolloids, 2017 - Elsevier
Fresh and lyophilized watermelon rinds were treated with boiling ethanol for pigment
removal and then used to extract pectins giving rise to fractions FW and LW, respectively …

Nitrogen-doped biochar derived from watermelon rind as oxygen reduction catalyst in air cathode microbial fuel cells

K Zhong, M Li, Y Yang, H Zhang, B Zhang, J Tang… - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Cathodic electrocatalyst is critical to the performance of microbial fuel cells. Developing cost-
effective and efficient catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction is therefore an important step …

Development and Characterization of Carbon‐Based Adsorbents Derived from Agricultural Wastes and Their Effectiveness in Adsorption of Heavy Metals in Waste …

L Natrayan, S Kaliappan… - Bioinorganic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The current work focuses on peanut shells and agricultural wastes richly in many nations
subjected to pyrolysis treatment at various temperatures in the range of 500–800° C to …

A review on progress of heavy metal removal using adsorbents of microbial and plant origin

S Srivastava, SB Agrawal, MK Mondal - Environmental Science and …, 2015 - Springer
Heavy metals released into the water bodies and on land surfaces by industries are highly
toxic and carcinogenic in nature. These heavy metals create serious threats to all the flora …

Arsenic removal by natural and chemically modified water melon rind in aqueous solutions and groundwater

MB Shakoor, NK Niazi, I Bibi, M Shahid, F Sharif… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Contamination of groundwater with toxic arsenic (As) has become an emerging health and
environmental problem around the world, which has seen significant attention amongst the …