Recent advances in heavy metal removal by chitosan based adsorbents

U Upadhyay, I Sreedhar, SA Singh, CM Patel… - Carbohydrate …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chitosan, a low cost polymer, has been used in many studies for adsorption of heavy metal
ions. This review covers the performance of all those adsorbents which were derived from …

Removal of heavy metal ions using chitosan and modified chitosan: A review

L Zhang, Y Zeng, Z Cheng - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2016 - Elsevier
Chitosan and its modifications have received great attention over the past few decades due
to its outstanding adsorption behavior toward various toxic heavy metals from aqueous …

Application of cellulose-clay composite biosorbent toward the effective adsorption and removal of chromium from industrial wastewater

ASK Kumar, S Kalidhasan, V Rajesh… - Industrial & engineering …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Biopolymer composites are known for their utility in diverse applications. In this paper, we
report an effective methodology for the detoxification of chromium using cellulose …

Hexavalent chromium removal in an electrocoagulation column reactor: Process optimization using CCD, adsorption kinetics and pH modulated sludge formation

SU Khan, DT Islam, IH Farooqi, S Ayub… - Process Safety and …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, hexavalent chromium [Cr (VI)] removal from aqueous solutions by
electrocoagulation, using iron electrodes, was optimized for process variables: applied …

Removal of Cr (VI) with a spiral wound chitosan nanofiber membrane module via dead-end filtration

L Li, J Zhang, Y Li, C Yang - Journal of Membrane Science, 2017 - Elsevier
A re-generable spiral wound module of affinitive electrospun chitosan nanofiber membranes
was fabricated, and the feasibility of the module for treating Cr (VI) contaminated water was …

Packed bed column studies of hexavalent chromium adsorption by zinc chloride activated carbon synthesized from Phanera vahlii fruit biomass

A Ajmani, C Patra, S Subbiah… - Journal of Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the present work, biosorption potential of zinc chloride activated biomass of Phanera
vahlii fruit was investigated for abatement of hexavalent chromium from synthetic solution in …

[HTML][HTML] Competitive heavy metal adsorption on pinecone shells: Mathematical modelling of fixed-bed column and surface interaction insights

MB Amar, M Mallek, A Valverde, H Monclús… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Pinecone shells are assessed as a cost-effective biosorbent for the removal of metal ions Pb
(II), Cu (II), Cd (II), Ni (II), and Cr (VI) in a fixed-bed column. Influent concentration, bed …

Water cleaning by a continuous fixed-bed column for Cr (VI) eco-adsorption with green adsorbent-based biomass: an experimental modeling study

M Kebir, H Tahraoui, M Chabani, M Trari… - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this study, chromate adsorption onto red peanut skin (RPS) was investigated in a fixed-
bed column; FTIR, PZC, SEM, DLS, and BET were used to evaluate its adsorption …

Chemically modified polysaccharides for hexavalent chromium adsorption

ME González-López… - Separation & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Over the last decades, adsorption has emerged as a potential separation process for the
removal of heavy metals that are extensively released in effluents from different industries …

Modeling of adsorption of toxic chromium on natural and surface modified lightweight expanded clay aggregate (LECA)

EM Kalhori, K Yetilmezsoy, N Uygur, M Zarrabi… - Applied Surface …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Lightweight Expanded Clay Aggregate (LECA) modified with an aqueous solution
of magnesium chloride MgCl 2 and hydrogen peroxide H 2 O 2 was used to remove Cr (VI) …