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 …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of geological originated materials as a trend for adsorption in wastewater treatment

Y Vieira, MS Netto, ÉC Lima, I Anastopoulos… - Geoscience …, 2022 - Elsevier
Adsorption is a unit operation widely used for the tertiary treatment of the most diverse
effluents, whose mechanism is based on removing recalcitrant compounds from the organic …

Low-cost chitosan-calcite adsorbent development for potential phosphate removal and recovery from wastewater effluent

S Pap, C Kirk, B Bremner, MT Sekulic, L Shearer… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Phosphorous (P) recovery from wastewater will become increasingly vital in the future as
terrestrial rock phosphate deposits are expended. Effective management of P as a critical …

Applying linear forms of pseudo-second-order kinetic model for feasibly identifying errors in the initial periods of time-dependent adsorption datasets

HN Tran - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Initial periods of adsorption kinetics play an important role in estimating the initial adsorption
rate and rate constant of an adsorption process. Several adsorption processes rapidly occur …

[HTML][HTML] Adsorption of malachite green by activated carbon derived from gasified Hevea brasiliensis root

AA Ahmad, MA Ahmad, NKEM Yahaya… - Arabian Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the challenges in biomass gasification industry is the solid waste disposal mostly in
the form of char. This article aims to prepare the gasified Hevea brasiliensis root based …

Revisiting temperature effect on the kinetics of liquid–phase adsorption by the Elovich equation: A simple tool for checking data reliability

RL Tseng, HN Tran, RS Juang - Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background It is recognized that temperature has a significant effect on adsorption
processes, including equilibrium and kinetics. In the past decades, the effect of temperature …

Exploring the adsorption efficacy of Cassia fistula seed carbon for Cd (II) ion removal: Comparative study of isotherm models

S Senniappan, S Palanisamy, VM Mani, M Umesh… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The current study demonstrates the potential of Cassia fistula seed carbon (CFSC), a waste
lignocellulosic biomass, to eliminate Cd (II) ion-from saturated liquid samples. The efficient …

Adsorption kinetics and isotherms of binary metal ion aqueous solution using untreated venus shell

A Khamwichit, W Dechapanya, W Dechapanya - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
Among available technologies to remove heavy metals from wastewater, biosorption has
gained more attention due to its high removal efficiency, friendly operation, and inexpensive …

Iron/manganese binary metal oxide-biochar nano-composites with high adsorption capacities of Cd2+: Preparation and adsorption mechanisms

J Qu, N Che, G Niu, L Liu, C Li, Y Liu - Journal of Water Process …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biochar has been widely used as an adsorbent to remove cadmium (Cd) from polluted
waters because of its high specific surface area and rich functional groups. Efforts have …

Column study for adsorption of copper and cadmium using activated carbon derived from sewage sludge

N Al-mahbashi, SRM Kutty, AH Jagaba… - Advances in Civil …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Among the waterpolluting substances, heavy metals stand out due to their carcinogenic
and toxic effects on the creatures and environment. This study aimed to scrutinize the …