A comprehensive review of biochar in removal of organic pollutants from wastewater: Characterization, toxicity, activation/functionalization and influencing treatment …

H Zeghioud, L Fryda, H Djelal, A Assadi… - Journal of Water Process …, 2022 - Elsevier
The current climate and environmental challenges demand novel and cost-effective
sustainable materials with a high efficacy and eco-friendly properties. Biochar (BC) has …

Treatment of industrial oily wastewater by advanced technologies: a review

AI Adetunji, AO Olaniran - Applied Water Science, 2021 - Springer
Oily wastewater consists of fats, oils and greases together with a broad spectrum of
dissolved organic and/or inorganic substances in suspension. It is regarded as one of the …

Valorization of biomass waste to engineered activated biochar by microwave pyrolysis: Progress, challenges, and future directions

SY Foong, RK Liew, Y Yang, YW Cheng… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Biomass waste represents the promising surrogate of fossil fuels for energy recovery and
valorization into value-added products. Among thermochemical conversion techniques of …

Investigations on influences of MWCNT composite membranes in oil refineries waste water treatment with Taguchi route

T Sathish, R Saravanan, V Vijayan - chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Most of the 'oil refineries' severally pollutes the water resources by depleting their untreated
waste water like cooling water, storm water and unsanitary sewage water. These …

Recent advances in applications of activated carbon from biowaste for wastewater treatment: a short review

S Wong, N Ngadi, IM Inuwa, O Hassan - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
Rapid population growth and the resultant pollution of freshwater sources are expected to
create water stress conditions on the world in the near future. Adsorption technique is a …

An overview of carbothermal synthesis of metal–biochar composites for the removal of oxyanion contaminants from aqueous solution

R Li, JJ Wang, LA Gaston, B Zhou, M Li, R Xiao… - Carbon, 2018 - Elsevier
Biochar shows promise as a potential low–cost sorbent for removing oxyanions from
wastewater. However, this generic material exhibits a very wide range in porosity, surface …

A review of technical advances of recent palm bio-waste conversion to activated carbon for energy storage

RT Ayinla, JO Dennis, HM Zaid, YK Sanusi… - Journal of cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recently, the conversion of palm waste to activated carbon for various applications has
attracted significant attention from researchers. Over the years, abundant palm wastes have …

Palm oil mill effluent treatment processes—A review

S Mohammad, S Baidurah, T Kobayashi, N Ismail… - Processes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Ponding system or land application techniques are widely used at industrial scale to treat
palm oil mill effluent (POME) prior to discharge to the environment. POME is considered as …

Production of biochar and activated carbon from oil palm biomass: current status, prospects, and challenges

MR Zakaria, MAA Farid, Y Andou, I Ramli… - Industrial Crops and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The palm oil industry produces large quantities of biomass residues that can be utilized to
produce value-added products. Oil palm biomass has an average carbon content ranging …

Prospectives and challenges of wastewater treatment technologies to combat contaminants of emerging concerns

AI Shah, MUD Dar, RA Bhat, JP Singh, K Singh… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Various anthropogenic activities result in a continuous discharge of contaminants of
emerging concerns (CECs) into the natural environs. The remediation of these substances is …