Starch, cellulose, pectin, gum, alginate, chitin and chitosan derived (nano) materials for sustainable water treatment: A review

M Nasrollahzadeh, M Sajjadi, S Iravani… - Carbohydrate polymers, 2021 - Elsevier
Natural biopolymers, polymeric organic molecules produced by living organisms and/or
renewable resources, are considered greener, sustainable, and eco-friendly materials …

[HTML][HTML] Fly ash-based adsorbent for adsorption of heavy metals and dyes from aqueous solution: a review

UO Aigbe, KE Ukhurebor, RB Onyancha… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
A critical global issue in the 21st century is water shortage, as well as its pollution with
noxious metal ions and organic dyes. To extract these pollutants from wastewater, a variety …

A review on heavy metal pollution, toxicity and remedial measures: Current trends and future perspectives

KH Vardhan, PS Kumar, RC Panda - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2019 - Elsevier
Water is an exceptionally essential source for the presence of life on the earth. The water
quality has seriously affected because of the overgrowth of the population, human activities …

Emerging waste-to-wealth applications of fly ash for environmental remediation: A review

HHT Nguyen, HT Nguyen, SF Ahmed… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The considerable increase in world energy consumption owing to rising global population,
intercontinental transportation and industrialization has posed numerous environmental …

Cu (II) removal from wastewater using chitosan-based adsorbents: a review

AK Mallik, SMF Kabir, FBA Rahman, MN Sakib… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Copper is one of the most well-known heavy metals; while it is an essential nutrient for living
organisms, its excessive presence in wastewaters is equally hazardous, causing a variety of …

Possible applications of coal fly ash in wastewater treatment

F Mushtaq, M Zahid, IA Bhatti, S Nasir… - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Management of coal fly ash as a particulate byproduct of coal burning has become an issue
to be solved right away due to environmental concerns related to soil, water, and air …

Iron oxide and its modified forms as an adsorbent for arsenic removal: A comprehensive recent advancement

SI Siddiqui, SA Chaudhry - Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 2017 - Elsevier
Arsenic, one of the elements having most terrible impact on the human being, is threatening
the world continuously. It exists in the combined form in rocks under earth which on …

New magnetic Schiff's base-chitosan-glyoxal/fly ash/Fe3O4 biocomposite for the removal of anionic azo dye: an optimized process

NN Abd Malek, AH Jawad, AS Abdulhameed… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, a new magnetic Schiff's base-chitosan-glyoxal/fly ash/Fe 3 O 4 biocomposite
(Chi-Gly/FA/Fe 3 O 4) was successfully synthesized by direct compositing of magnetic …

A review on potential usage of industrial waste materials for binding heavy metal ions from aqueous solutions

MJK Ahmed, M Ahmaruzzaman - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
Presence of toxic and recalcitrant heavy metal ions in industrial effluents is a major
environmental concern. These fatal metal ions are not only hazardous in exceeding …

Treatment of copper (II) containing wastewater by a newly developed ligand based facial conjugate materials

MR Awual, MM Hasan, MA Khaleque… - Chemical Engineering …, 2016 - Elsevier
A sensitive and selective colorimetric method for simultaneous detection and removal of
copper (Cu (II)) ion from contaminated water samples was developed based on the …