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... Non-thermal plasma (NTP) surface modification technology is a new method to control the surface properties of materials, which has been widely used in the field of environmental protection because of its short action time, simple process and no pollution. In this study, Cu/ACF (activated carbon fiber loaded with copper) adsorbent was modified with NTP to remove H₂S and PH₃ simultaneously under low ...
... In this report, nitrogen-doped porous carbons were synthesized from polyacrylonitrile fiber by a facile two-step synthesis process i.e. carbonization followed by KOH activation. Activation temperature and KOH/carbon ratio are two parameters to tune the porosity and surface chemical properties of sorbents. The as-obtained sorbents were carefully characterized. Special attention was paid concerning ...
adsorbents; adsorption; chromium; ecosystems; formic acid; heavy metals; human health; pH; pollution; porosity; surface area; toxicity; wastewater; water quality; China
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... Zr-based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been developed in recent years to treat heavy metals, e.g. hexavalent chromium Cr⁶⁺ pollution, which damages the surrounding ecosystem and threaten human health. This kind of MOF is stable and convenient to prepare, but has the disadvantage of low adsorption capacity, limiting its wide application. To this end, a novel formic acid and amino modified MO ...
... The suitability and efficacy of three-dimensional (3D) graphene, including its derivatives, have garnered widespread attention towards the development of novel, sustainable materials with ecological amenability. This is especially relevant towards its utilization as adsorbents of wastewater contaminants, such as heavy metals, dyes, and oil, which could be majorly attributed to its noteworthy physi ...
adsorbents; adsorption; density functional theory; hydrogen; ion exchange; liquids; methylene blue; models; polymers; three-dimensional printing
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... Geopolymers have high application potential due to their outstanding ion exchange ability. A novel direct ink writing (DIW) geopolymer adsorption sieve (GAS) preparation strategy was proposed. The preparation and optimization of DIW inks and the adsorption properties and mechanism of GAS for methylene blue (MB) were systematically investigated by characterization and density functional theory (DFT ...
... Type II porous liquids, comprising intrinsically porous molecules dissolved in a liquid solvent, potentially combine the adsorption properties of porous adsorbents with the handling advantages of liquids. Previously, discovery of appropriate solvents to make porous liquids had been limited to direct experimental tests. We demonstrate an efficient screening approach for this task that uses COSMO-RS ...
... The occurrence of acetaminophen in surface water has been reported worldwide, indicating the need of alternative wastewater treatments. Activated hydrochar (AHC) is efficient for pharmaceuticals removal. Powdered AHC presents challenges that hamper its expansion. However, these issues can be overcome by adding polymers, such as alginate, in composite beads. Therefore, the present study aimed to de ...
acetic acid; adsorbents; atomic absorption spectrometry; chemical species; ionic strength; pH; solid phase extraction; toxicity; toxicology; water pollution; zinc oxide
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... Water pollution due to toxic metals may pose a significant effect on the environment and the biota indicating the necessity of careful management of their concentration in the system. On the other hand, a simplified and useable sample preparation technique is required for their trace analysis. In this report, a simple solid-phase extraction procedure was developed for fast extraction and preconcen ...
... The objective of this paper was to use residual lignin from second-generation ethanol process in the preparation of activated carbons, which were characterized and evaluated for the discoloration capacity of different dyes. Phosphoric acid and potassium carbonate were used as activating agents. Lignin and the commercial activated carbon were used as a reference, under the experimental conditions s ...
... The study of adsorbent behaviour in laboratory conditions helps to predict the adsorption process in a large industrial scale. In this study, orange and lemon peels-derived activated carbon (OLPAC) was successfully synthesized and activated using phosphoric acid. Characterization was performed on the OLPAC and the material was used for the removal of methyl orange (MO) and methylene (MB) dyes from ...
activated carbon; adsorbents; adsorption; aquaculture; biomass; ecosystems; lignocellulose; porosity; remediation; research and development; surface area; toxins; wastewater
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... The use of activated carbon is evidenced by the increased scope of carbon-based applications in various industrial applications including pharmaceutical antidotes, wastewater remediation, aquaculture and toxin removal. Activated carbon produced from biomass waste by various processing methods and conditions is emerging as a promising adsorbent for remediation of the ecosystem due to extensive disc ...
Titus Chinedu Egbosiuba; Michael Chika Egwunyenga; Jimoh Oladejo Tijani; Saheed Mustapha; Ambali Saka Abdulkareem; Abdulsalami Sanni Kovo; Vida Krikstolaityte; Andrei Veksha; Michal Wagner; Grzegorz Lisak
... Nickel nanoparticles (NiNPs) supported on activated multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were used as an adsorbent applied towards Pb(II), As(V) and Cd(II) remediation from industrial wastewater. The result revealed the hydrophilic surface of MWCNTs-KOH was enhanced with the incorporation of NiNPs enabling higher surface area, functional groups and pore distribution. Comparatively, the removal o ...
... Waste paper (WP) is rich in cellulose, which can be activated to produce porous carbon, bio-oil, and combustible gases. During chemical activation of WP, the use of varied chemical agents not only generates activated carbon of distinct pore structure but also bio-oil/gases of different property. In this study, the activation of WP with varied chemical agents was conducted. The distinct characteris ...
... BACKGROUND: Organic dyes are extremely hazardous waste toxins because they can harm all living organisms as well as the environment. Among them, azo dyes are the most harmful, containing a non‐degradable azo group (NN); these dyes are highly hazardous for both humans and animals, even in low concentration. This research study aims to remove hazardous anionic azo dyes from aqueous solutions by a ...
... A new zirconium-based adsorption material (UiO-66-AMP) was prepared by modifying UiO-66-NH₂ with 5-adenosine to effectively remove Pb(II) and Cr(VI) from wastewater. The SEM, EDS, XRS and FT-IR characterization confirmed the successful synthesis of UiO-66-AMP. We conducted a sets of experiments to test the adsorption effectiveness of UiO-66-AMP for Pb(II) and Cr(VI). The maximum adsorption capacit ...
acetic acid; adsorbents; adsorption; aqueous solutions; carboxymethylcellulose; heavy metals; infrared spectroscopy; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
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... This paper describes the synthesis of a novel chelating material derived from cellulose, and its heavy metal ion adsorption properties from aqueous solution. The first section of this paper reports the chemical grafting of cellulose, that amino acetic acid groups were grafted onto the cellulose by in situ synthesis, a novel yet unreported modified cellulose derivative N,N-(dicarboxymethylaminoethy ...
... Pesticides present in water resources can cause adverse health effects even in low concentrations, due to their bio-accumulative character. Therefore, the challenge for drinking water production increases, due to the limitations of conventional water treatment technologies in the removal of small molecular weight dissolved compounds. This work aimed to provide technical and scientific support for ...
... Despite the excellent potential of halloysite nanotubes (HNT) as an adsorbent for water-soluble molecules, their high aqueous dispersity makes it difficult to separate them from the aqueous media after adsorption. This study explores the potential of developing HNT-based magnetic field-responsive adsorbent to facilitate the separation of the HNT from aqueous media after adsorption. Fe₃O₄ was succe ...
... The performance of poly(methacrylic acid-co-acrylamide)/Cloisite 30B nanocomposite (poly(MAA-co-AAm)/Cl30B) hydrogel to adsorb methylene blue (MB) dye from aqueous solutions was investigated and the adsorption efficiency was improved by incorporating Cloisite 30B nanoclays in the adsorbent structure. The hydrogels were analyzed using FTIR, XRD, TGA, and SEM analysis. The effect of adsorbent dose, ...
adsorbents; adsorption; arsenates; mass transfer; soil types; water; water treatment; China
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... The removal, and its mechanism, of arsenate from aqueous solutions was investigated using Yunnan red soil. A series of adsorption experiments was designed to disclose the effect of key factors (soil types, soil/solution rates, initial arsenate concentrations, and shaking speeds) on the adsorption capacity of Yunnan red soil for arsenate. The soil/solution ratio was optimized as 0.05 g/100 mL to ba ...
... Biochar (BC) is considered as a promising adsorbent and/or catalyst for the removal of organic contaminants. However, the relationship between the particle size of BC and its adsorption/catalysis performance is largely unclear. We therefore investigated the influence of particle size on the performance of BC pyrolyzed at 300–900 °C in trichloroethylene (TCE) adsorption and persulfate (PS) activati ...
adsorbents; adsorption; biochar; ciprofloxacin; density functional theory; mass spectrometry; oxidants; oxidation; sludge; surface area; total nitrogen; total organic carbon
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... In this study, biochar derived from municipal sludge (SBC) was modified by CoFe-Layered double hydroxides (CoFe-LDH), and used as adsorbent and oxidant for the removal of ciprofloxacin (CIP) for the first time. Under the optimal conditions, the CIP removal rate is increased by 24% compared with the single SBC, while the removal rates of total organic carbon and total nitrogen in the modified one a ...
... The study aims to prepare a novel low-cost and environmentally friendly adsorbent by using date pits (DP) impregnated with cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) and ionic liquid (IL), named IL-CNC@DP. The batch adsorption of lithium onto IL-CNC@DP and DP were studied at different pH values, initial lithium concentrations, and temperatures. The thermodynamics constants of the adsorption process showed that ...
... Lead (Pb²⁺) pollution poses severe healthy and ecological risks to humans. In this work, sulfate polysaccharide from Enteromorpha prolifera (SPE) was utilized for Pb²⁺ adsorption from simulated intestinal fluid. In order to evaluate its adsorption behaviors comprehensively, batch adsorption of Pb²⁺ was investigated under different conditions. Results showed that SPE presents high adsorption abilit ...
... Amine/quaternary ammonium lignin for adsorption of tungsten was synthesized by amination and quaternization from lignin. The adsorbent was characterized by SEM-EDS and FTIR. The effects of pH, initial concentration of tungsten, adsorption time and dosage of adsorbent on the adsorption effect were investigated. The adsorption mechanism was revealed by SEM-EDS and FTIR and XPS. The results showed th ...
... In order to study the nature of SO₂ binding, the effect of the presence of H₂O₍g₎ and O₂ in the gas mixture was investigated, the pore size distribution (using nitrogen at 77 K) and the porosity of the bed were determined, qualitative and quantitative analysis of the oxygen surface functional groups (using thermal and infrared spectroscopy, acid-base titration, electrochemical analyses) and ash mi ...
adsorbents; adsorption; cations; ion exchange capacity; manganese; models; oxidation; regression analysis; sorption isotherms; surface area
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... Todorokite has a high ion exchange capacity and can be a good adsorbent to fix Cs. Here, the adsorption behavior of Cs and the cation selectivity of two todorokites synthesized using two different methods (Oxi-TOD and Red-TOD) were investigated by kinetic and isotherm experiments. Todorokite exhibited a range of physicochemical properties depending on the synthesis method, while the Cs adsorption ...
... Design a novel and efficient adsorption-reutilization system is required urgently to overcome the difficulty of heavy metal-polluted water and secondary pollution of adsorbent-heavy metals. Here, a functional imitation wood-derived adsorbent was fabricated with carboxyl-functionalized ordered mesoporous tube bundles (named as OMTB@CA-IWA), which was successfully used in the high efficiency removal ...
... The incidence of the mycotoxin ochratoxin A (OTA) in cheeses constitutes a significant economic and health concern for producers and consumers alike. Recently, detoxification approaches using food additives to counteract mycotoxins have been widely recommended in the food industry. This study aimed to quantify OTA levels in some Egyptian cheese types, and experimentally determine the detoxificatio ...
... Among available technologies to remove heavy metals from wastewater, biosorption has gained more attention due to its high removal efficiency, friendly operation, and inexpensive cost. Despite many studies on metal adsorption from single ion solutions, kinetics and isotherms of binary metal ions simultaneously adsorbed onto biosorbents have not been thoroughly investigated to provide insight on in ...
... Cellulose can be considered as a raw material for the production of filters and adsorbents for the removal of micropollutants, particularly in pharmaceutical-based products. To study its applications, it is important to estimate the adsorptive interaction of cellulose with the targeted chemicals, and develop predictive models for the expandable estimation into various types of micropollutants. The ...
... Novel amine functionalized materials can capture greenhouse gas CO₂. In this study, SiO₂–Al₂O₃–ZrO₂ ternary composite aerogel was prepared by sol-gel method, supercritical drying, ultrasonic non-in-situ synthesis and other processes using aluminum chloride hexahydrate as aluminum source, ethyl orthosilicate as silicon source and tetrabbutyl zirconate as zirconium source. The composite material was ...
... Biochar is a promising adsorbent used to remove heavy metals from wastewater. In order to improve its performance in adsorption, the biochar derived from Auricularia auricula spent substrate (BC), was further modified by carbon disulfide (CS₂), and the characteristics and mechanism of the modified biochar (SBC) for Cd(II) adsorption were investigated. CS₂ modification induced sulfur (S)-containing ...
... The remediation of heavy metal contamination was urgent owing to their toxicity and non-biodegradability. In this study, a synthetic zeolite originated from natural low-grade molybdenum ore (NMO) was used to adsorb Cdᴵᴵ from wastewater under simulated multi-environmental factors. X-ray diffraction spectroscopy proved that faujasite was successfully synthesized. The specific surface area of the syn ...
adsorbents; adsorption; chitosan; environmental technology; heat; heavy metals; hydrogels; infrared spectroscopy; polyacrylic acid; thermogravimetry; wastewater; water pollution
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... Heavy metal pollution is extraordinary critical, so it is urgent to develop an effective adsorbent to dispose of such pollution. Modified chitosan was combined with polyacrylic acid to form N-carboxymethyl chitosan hydrogel (NCS-hydrogel) adsorbent. The morphology and structure of NCS-hydrogel were analyzed and identified by infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, thermogravimetric an ...
... In this study, the functionalised henna powder was tested for the adsorption of the lead, copper, and nickel. The method of making this adsorbent is very easy, as it can be prepared with the materials available in the kitchen. Three metals with equal concentration are used as multi-metals adsorption. The experiment was conducted at varying contact time(30–180), adsorbent dose(0.05–0.25 g), adsorba ...
adsorbents; adsorption; aqueous solutions; graphene; graphene oxide; heavy metals; hydrogels; kinetics; models; pH; porosity; surface area
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... In this study, graphene hydrogel with small pore size and high specific surface area was prepared from unpurified natural cryptocrystalline graphite and was used to adsorb Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺ from aqueous solution. The adsorption performance of reduced graphene oxide hydrogel under different pH, time, initial metal ion concentration and reuse time was investigated. It was experimentally found that the a ...
... Adequate animal manure disposal became a challenge in agriculture. Liquid swine waste (LSW), easily used in agriculture, presents disadvantages due to the high volume and low nutrient concentrations. Metabasalt powder, a residue of amethyst mining, was evaluated as an adsorbent agent of nutrients (Cu, Zn, P, and K) from LSW. Seven doses of metabasalt powder were tested in proportion with LSW (0, 4 ...
... We explore the behavior of polymer-tethered particles on solid surfaces using coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. Segment–segment, segment–core, and core–core interactions are assumed to be purely repulsive, while the segment–substrate interactions are attractive. We analyze changes in the internal structure of single hairy particles on the surfaces with the increasing strength of the s ...
... Lotus leaf powder (LLP) was chemically modified with dimethylamine (DMA) to achieve a tertiary amine type powder, named DMA-LLP, and used as an adsorbent for the removal of Reactive Red 195 (RR 195) from the aqueous medium. DMA-LLP was characterized using field emission-scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET), point of zero ch ...
adsorbents; adsorption; data collection; graphene; graphene oxide; hydrogen; hydrophobic bonding; macrolides; pH; quinolones; reaction mechanisms; tetracycline; trimethoprim; van der Waals forces
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... The knowledge on the sorption behaviour of antibiotics on nanomaterials is limited, especially regarding the reaction mechanism on the surface of carbon nanomaterials, which may determine both the adsorptive capacity and regeneration efficiency of graphene adsorbers. In this work, we used molecular modelling to generate the most comprehensive (to date) adsorption dataset for pristine and functiona ...
... Polyaniline (PANI) has been considered as a high-efficient adsorbent for the dye removal from wastewater. Different synthetic conditions could offer PANI with comparable adsorption performance and yield, which are crucial for its large-scale application. Herein, the adsorption performance of PANIs, which synthesized by one-step polymerization method under different temperature and amount of FeCl₃, ...
... Bisphenol-A (BPA) is a common plasticizer that has been considered a chemical of concern due to its endocrine disruption potential. In this sense, this paper aimed to investigate the adsorption of this contaminant onto commercial organophilic clay named Spectrogel® as means of water remediation. For this, characterization techniques were carried out before and post-process to identify any major al ...
... The effect of different physical and chemical properties of activated carbon (AC) on adsorption of carbon monoxide (CO) was studied after treating two types of ACs (Merck/Novel) using dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) which leads to modify the surface functional groups and pore structures. A non-chemical treatment method used to improve the CO removal efficiency of AC involved treating AC with no ...
... The rapid expansion of industrialization has a significant contribution to the economic development of many nations. But, the untreated discharge from the textile factory is severely impacting freshwater and public health. Therefore, this study was aimed to prepare activated bentonite for removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD) from textile industrial wastewater, and the optimization process was s ...
... The lanthanum modified multi-walled carbon nanotubes (La-CNTs) prepared by an impregnation method were investigated for the adsorption of chlortetracycline (CTC) in aquaculture wastewater. The adsorbents were characterized by SEM, EDS, XRD and BET. The effects of some factors including La-containing impregnant concentration, adsorbent dosage, CTC adsorbate concentration, adsorption time, pH of the ...
... Recent trends in adsorption of Chromium (Cr), Copper (Cu), Lead (Pb) and Mercury (Hg) in wastewater using (i) carbonaceous materials including activated carbon (AC) and biochar (BC), and (ii) nanomaterials including nano zero-valent iron (nZVI) and MXenes have been discussed in this paper. It has been found that adsorption capacity depends largely on the adsorbent modification technique, initial p ...
... Antibiotics in water bodies are emerging as an alarming new pollutant because of its persistent and recombinant nature. In recent period of human lifestyle, pharmaceutical products play a vital role in many perspectives. Due to this unpredictable usage of products, the unreacted components release into waterbodies in trace quantities. Eventhough these trace quantities initiate a crisis of developi ...
... Most natural polymers exhibit limited functional groups, which is not favourable for the adsorption of various ions and their utilisation. To overcome this drawback, a novel in-situ-doped nano-calcium carbonate (CaCO₃) chitin hydrogel was synthesised as an efficient adsorbent for Cu (II) and Cd (II) ions. Scanning electron microscopy and Brunauer–Emmett–Teller results revealed that the synthesised ...
adsorbents; adsorption; animal and human health; deoxynivalenol; food chemistry; ultraviolet radiation; viability; wastes
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... Deoxynivalenol (DON) is widely contaminated in foods and feeds, which greatly threatens human and animal health. Due to its stable physicochemical properties, DON can be hardly eliminated by heating or ultraviolet radiation. In the present study, the biowaste eggshells were firstly modified into effective DON adsorbents, which are ATPS (triethoxysilane) + TEOS (aminopropyl triethoxysilane) modifie ...
... Copper is the most quintessential type of heavy metal found in the water bodies due to anthropogenic activities such as farming, leather industries, urban effluents etc. To remove pollutant such as Copper, Cicer husk was collected, pre-treated with Magnesium Chloride and was pyrolyzed to obtained Magnesium Oxide immobilized biochar known as Magnesium Cicer Biochar. The adsorbent showed % removal o ...
... A novel modified rice husk (MRH) has been prepared for removing cationic dyes in both single system and binary system. SEM-EDS, FT-IR, XRD and XPS were used to characterize the physical and chemical properties of MRH. It showed that the maximum adsorption capacity of MRH for methyl violet (MV) and malachite green (MG) in single system was 154.49 and 996.97 mg g⁻¹, while in binary system was 530.94 ...
... A novel bi-functional β-cyclodextrin polymer (CD@TCT@PEI) was synthesized for the removal of hydroquinone and Pb(II) from wastewater. The structure and adsorption performance of CD@TCT@PEI towards hydroquinone and Pb(II) were studied comprehensively. Both of the adsorption processes fit the pseudo-second-order kinetic model well. The adsorption isotherms of hydroquinone and Pb(II) could be describ ...
... In this study, a novel composite aerogel of Nicandra physaloides(L.) Gaertn seed, gum/graphene oxide (NPG/GO), was prepared by using a vacuum freeze drying method for methylene blue (MB) adsorption. The techniques, including Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), were adopted for studying the structure and surface charac ...
... In this study, a novel iron and nitrogen co-doped biochar (Fe/N-biochar) was successfully prepared and employed as an efficient adsorbent for micropollutants. The maximum adsorption capacity of Fe/N-biochar for bisphenol A (BPA) was 54 mg/g, which is significantly better than that of commercial graphene (19 mg/g) and activated carbon (6 mg/g). Additionally, for eight other common micropollutants ( ...
... In this study, biochar derived from spent coffee grounds (SCGB) was used to adsorb norfloxacin (NOR) in water. The biochar properties were interpreted by analysis of the specific surface area, morphology, structure, thermal stability, and functional groups. The impacts of pH, NOR, and ion's present on SCGB performance were examined. The NOR adsorption mode of SCGB is best suited to the Langmuir mo ...
... BACKGROUND: In the present investigation, rice husk modified by Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) was used for the adsorptive removal of perchlorate by fixed column experiments from aqueous solution. The performance of the cationic modified rice husk (MRH) was characterized by Fourier transform infrared analysis. Experiments were carried out in a properly designed test rig consisting of a fixe ...
... Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are organic pollutants formed mainly by the incomplete combustion of organic matter, such as oil, gas and coal. The presence of PAHs can cause irreparable damage to the environment and living beings, which has generated a global concern with the short and long term risks that the emission of these pollutants can cause. Many technologies have been developed i ...
... Currently available wastewater phosphorus (P) treatment technologies target removal of reactive forms of P. Selective adsorption of more recalcitrant soluble non-reactive phosphorus (sNRP) can improve P removal and recovery. A phosphate-selective phosphate-binding protein (PBP), PstS, was immobilized onto NHS-activated beads to assess the ability of this novel bioadsorbent to remove (adsorb) and s ...
... Olive mill wastewater, also known as olive wastewater, contains biologically active components with various beneficial effects on health. The development of novel adsorbent materials for the recovery of these biologically active substances is important area of research. In this study, copolymeric hydrogels based on N-vinylimidazole (VIm), a new material that has never been used as an adsorbent in ...
... Converting microalgal biomass residues into biochar (BC) after microalgal wastewater treatment is a popular approach that can produce an adsorbent to treat refractory organic pollutants. Moreover, the adsorption efficiency via BC is closely associated with the surface morphology, which may be determined by the composition of the microalgal biomass. However, the intrinsic relationship and advanced ...
... Uranium (VI) is the premise and foundation for the development of nuclear industry. It is a significant challenge for extracting U(VI) from wastewater. In this paper, the amidoxime modified polyacrylic acid microcrystalline cellulose (MC-PAA-AO) was prepared by a two-step graft polymerization method and an amidoximation reaction and used for the removal of U(VI) from aqueous solution. The adsorpti ...
... Fe–Mn binary oxide (FMBO) is a promising adsorbent for As(III) removal through combined adsorption and oxidation. The calcined oyster shell‐supported Fe–Mn binary oxide (FMBO/OS) adsorbent was synthesized by the co‐precipitation method. Results indicated that the calcined oyster shell, as a carrier, improved the stability of FMBO and its adsorption capacity for As(III). The maximum adsorption capa ...
... The anion exchange properties of layered composite metal hydroxide (LDHs) make it a significant anion purification material in aquatic environment. Ca–Al-LDHs as a calcium-based adsorbent can significantly improve the removal rate of phosphate. In this manuscript, waste oyster shell was used as the source of calcium and waste cans as the source of aluminum, and compared with the LDHs prepared by c ...
... Mercury is known to be one of the most toxic heavy metals in the environment and is released into the water systems in significant quantities through natural events and industrial process activities. Many chemical materials are used as adsorbents in the removal of toxic metals from the environment and wastewaters. However, using microorganisms as bio-sorbents instead of chemical materials has beco ...
Taher Shahryari; Pardeep Singh; Pankaj Raizada; Alla Davidyants; Lakshmi Thangavelu; Selvaraju Sivamani; Ali Naseri; Fateme Vahidipour; Andrei Ivanets; Ahmad Hosseini-Bandegharaei
adsorbents; adsorption; carbon nanotubes; chemical species; endothermy; heavy metals; models; solid phase extraction; sorption isotherms; thermodynamics
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... Keeping the efficiency of adsorbents in view with devising new solid phase extraction (SPE) methods, this study was aimed at preparation and examination of a new beneficial adsorbent for heavy metal ions. A suitable extractant, 1,8-Dihydroxyanthraquinone (Danthron), was impregnated onto MWCNTs and, firstly, the adsorption properties of Danthron-impregnated MWCNTs (Danthron/MWCNTs) were checked tow ...
... Carob waste (CW) is an agro-biomass material abundant in nature with potential use for eco-friendly remediation. However, like many biomass-based adsorbents, it suffers from its low adsorption capacity for organic/inorganic pollutants. Therefore, modification using physical and/or chemical means is commonly applied to improve the adsorptive properties of biomass-based adsorbents. In this study, ca ...
... In this study, the removal of methylene blue dye, which is widely used in the textile industry, from aqueous solutions prepared synthetically using spent Alchemilla Vulgaris leaves was investigated. The effects of initial pH, initial dye concentration, adsorbent concentration, particle size and temperature on the adsorption efficiency were examined and the suitability of the adsorption data to the ...
Azospirillum; adsorbents; agitation; air; biofertilizers; biosorbents; chromium; copper; ecosystems; heavy metals; kinetics; leachates; pH; remediation; soil; soil pollution; sorption isotherms; temperature; water; water pollution; water quality
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... Heavy metal contamination plays a major role in water pollution. It needs remediation without raising the issues of secondary waste generation and their related issues. Heavy metal residues adversely affect soil and water quality. Their leachate would disturb the whole ecological system. It needs remediation to avoid the effect on soil and water. Azospirillium biofertilizer has the ability to redu ...
adsorbents; adsorption; ambient temperature; calcium; cesium radioisotopes; delamination; ion exchange; process design; wastewater
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... Selective removal of ¹³⁷Cs from nuclear wastewater is still a challenge due to the issues of efficient adsorbent exploitation and high concentrations of competitive ions. In this study, two-dimensional-layered Mxene Ti₃C₂Tₓ achieved the surface alkaline modification with KOH to be used as an efficient adsorbent for Cs⁺ removal from model wastewater. Hydroxyl-modified Ti₃C₂Tₓ obtained improved the ...
... The occurrence of high concentrations of arsenic and fluoride in drinking water has become a serious environmental issue. The present study reports a novel adsorbent, L-Arg functionalized silica micro-particles and its effectiveness for the simultaneous removal of arsenite, arsenate, and fluoride ions in aqueous solution. Batch adsorption experiments were performed to evaluate the efficiency of re ...
... The ability of polypyrrole-Iron oxide-seaweed nanocomposite has been tested for the removal of congo red from aqueous solution. The characteristics of nanocomposite after adsorption of Congo red (CR) have been analyzed. FTIR results authorized the involvement of various functional groups in the adsorption of CR. The change in morphology of nanocomposite was analyzed using scanning electron microsc ...
... Magnetic iron nanoparticle sprinkled graphene oxide-chitosan (Fe₃O₄-GO/Ch) beads are successfully fabricated through a facile chemical route for the effective adsorption of Lead (Pb(II)) ions from an aqueous medium. Graphene oxide (GO) and Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles (NPs) were prepared by Hummer’s method and hydrothermal method respectively where, ferric chloride is used as an iron precursor. Fe₃O₄-GO wa ...
... Chromium (Cr) ions, discharging from different industrial activities, especially from leather tanning industries, are becoming a major threat for the environment and human health. Therefore, elimination of chromium ions from industrial effluents should be addressed with great attention. Hence, this study was conducted for evaluating the possibilities of using an agricultural waste “flax” to elimin ...
... Raw fly ash (RFA) was modified using NaOH and FeCl₃ (NaOH/Fe-MFA) to enhance the adsorptive properties for removal of fluoride from water. SEM-EDX, XRD and FTIR, point for zero charge (PZC), specific surface area, and particle size were considered to contrast adsorbent properties of RFA and NaOH/Fe-MFA. The impact of operating variables such that initial solution pH, contact time, adsorbent dosage ...
... Aluminium oxide modified onion skin waste (Al₂O₃/OSW) was characterized and used for adsorption of metal ions (Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺) in this study, and the relations between sorbent properties and metal ion sorption were investigated. The effects of adsorption process conditions on metal ion removal efficiency, including initial cation concentration, contact time, adsorbent dosage and pH, were examined. ...
... Organic dyes, a type of high toxic and carcinogenic chemicals that present severe threats to human and aquatic life, are the most commonly seen organic pollutants in wastewater of industries such as textile, rubber, cosmetic industry etc. Various techniques for the removal of dyes are compared in this review. Adsorption has proven to be a facile and promising approach for the removal of dyes in wa ...
... Herein, we designed a cost-effective preparation method of nanocomposite γ-Al₂O₃ derived from Al-waste. The produced material has a feather-like morphology, and its adsorption of some chlorinated volatile organic compounds (Cl-VOC's) such as benzyl chloride, chloroform and carbon tetrachloride (C₇H₇Cl, CHCl₃ and CCl₄) was investigated due to their potential carcinogenic effect on humans. It showed ...
... Antibiotics are widely used for treatment of diseases caused by bacteria. They reach the aquatic environment through urine and excreta. The dominant antibiotics that are commonly detected in aquatic environments include tetracyclines, sulfonamides and quinolones. This review critically analyzes the effectiveness of carbon-based materials (biochar and hydrochar) for removal of antibiotics from wast ...
... In this study, an iron(III)-loaded magnetic chitosan/graphene oxide composite (Fe-MCG) was synthesized and applied for the adsorptive removal of sulfosalicylic acid (SSA) in aqueous solution. The results obtained from the application of various characterization techniques such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM), vibrating-sample magnetometry (VSM), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) pro ...
... The existing study deals with adsorptive removal of the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol-A and toxic azo dye solvent black-3 from single and binary solutions. These two chemicals are commonly used as an additive in the synthetic plastic industries. Among the tested twenty pristine and modified biochars, the pristine pinecone biochar produced at 750 °C revealed greater bisphenol-A removal. S ...
adsorbents; adsorption; food chain; heavy metals; human health; pollution; polymers; remediation; research; soil; wastewater; wastewater treatment
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... Due to the development in science field which gives not only benefit but also introducesundesirable pollution to the environment. This pollution is due to poor discharge activities of industrial effluents into the soil and water bodies, surface run off from fields of agricultural lands, dumping of untreated wastes by municipalities, and mining activites, which deteriorates the cardinal virtue of o ...
... Spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have been one of the fast-growing and largest quantities of solid waste in the world. Spent graphite anode, accounting for 12-21wt% of batteries, contains metals, binders, toxic, and flammable electrolytes. The efficient recovery of spent graphite is urgently needed for environmental protection and resource sustainability. Recently, more and more studies have bee ...
... Efficient adsorption/enrichment of protein species from complex biological matrixes is the prerequisite in proteomic analysis. Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) belong to an emerging class of ordered porous materials consisting of metal clusters and organic ligands. The fine-tunable metal clusters and organic ligands, easy-functional surface engineering as well as controllable combination with other ...
adsorbents; aerosols; air; air pollution; altitude; boreal forests; climate; dimethylamine; human health; hydrogen; imidazoles; imines; nitrogen; polytetrafluoroethylene; pyridines; titanium; Finland
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... A wide variety of nitrogen-containing compounds are present in the environment, which contributes to air pollution and new particle formation, for example. These eventually affect human health and the climate. With all this consideration, there is a growing interest in the development of efficient and reliable methods to determine these compounds in the atmosphere. In this study, titanium hydrogen ...
... In this work, new and superb magnetic adsorbent has been tailored via one-step dry-coating process. The developed magnetic adsorbent was fabricated from Antigorite, Bentonite, and Iron oxide for the first time, showing excellent capability for adsorption of positively and negatively charged contaminants. The structural and surface characteristics of the adsorbent were analyzed by X-ray fluorescenc ...
... In the current investigation, a comparison of mitigation of industrial‐grade, Dispersive Dark Red (DDR) (93.55%), Disperse Orange (DO) (93.48%) and lab grade, Malachite Green (MG) (95.25%), and Congo Red (CR) (97.02%) dyes using biosorptive ability of wheat bran (WB) (efficient, economical, readily available and environment‐friendly adsorbent) has been reported. WB obtained from wheat (a type of g ...
... Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB)/poly(hydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) aerogel monoliths were prepared via nonsolvent induced phase separation and then sequentially immersed in ethanol and sodium alginate (ALG) solutions. The resulting composite aerogels contained up to a 52 wt% fraction ALG, causing a remarkable increase in their compressive modulus and collapse strength from 0.3 MPa and 3 ...
activated carbon; administrative management; adsorbents; carbon fibers; energy efficiency; freshwater; lithium chloride; silica; temperature
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... Recent researches have demonstrated sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting (SAWH) as a sustainable, energy-efficient, and low-cost strategy to alleviate the water crisis. But the low daily water productivity of devices (L/kg day⁻¹) remains a bottleneck to achieve efficient water production as they are merely allowed for intermittent operation. This limitation makes it rather challenging to de ...
... Polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIM-1) has demonstrated great potential in adsorption and separation fields. In this study, PIM-1 was structured into an applicable and efficient adsorbent using a facile way. PIM-1 was first modified by amidoxime, and then the amidoxime modified PIM-1 (AOPIM-1) was mingled into alginate (Alg) hydrogel to obtain composite hydrogel beads. The AOPIM-1/Alg composi ...
... The development of advanced adsorbents with high capacity, fast rate, and easy regeneration has great practical application value. In this paper, polystyrene-polymaleic(anhydride) (PSMM-NH₂) hollow microspheres with a high density of amino groups are prepared and used for the efficient adsorption of anionic dyes with the maximum adsorption amount for acid red as high as 951.1 mg g⁻¹. More importan ...
... Effective mitigation of polar organic impurities from industrial effluents is a global environmental challenge. Here, we describe the solvothermal synthesis of ammonia-functionalized graphene oxide (NH₃GO) sheets for adsorptive removal of diverse organic pollutants, such as cationic dye basic blue 41 (BB41), anionic dye methyl orange (MO), and ionic 4-nitrophenol (4-NP), in aqueous media. Structur ...
... Herein, we represent a novel ecofriendly bilayer-amine group incorporated microcrystalline cellulose (MCC)/chitosan (CS) hydrogel, fabricated via integrating polydopamine (PDA) and polyethyleneimine (PEI) for reliable and effective extraction of copper (Cu²⁺), zinc (Zn²⁺), and nickel (Ni²⁺) ions from effluents. Owing to abundant adsorptive sites, the MCC-PDA-PEI/CS-PDA-PEI hydrogel showed excellen ...
adsorbents; adsorption; biogas; carbon dioxide; distillation; energy; urea; water vapor
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... Amine-functionalized adsorbents have become a hot topic in research on CO₂ separation from biogas. However, developing superior adsorbents with high adsorption capacity and stable cyclic stability under a CO₂ regeneration atmosphere remains difficult. In this study, azeotropic distillation, a green, recyclable method, was used to expand the pores of the nano-Al₂O₃ support. The pore volume of pore- ...
... Solid adsorbents modified with N-containing functional groups have been extensively studied due to their excellent CO₂ adsorption performance. In this work, an adsorbent was obtained to capture CO₂ by impregnating polyethylenimine (PEI) into MCM-41 with a reserved template that had different alkyl chain lengths [myristyltrimethylammonium bromide (C14), cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (C16), and ste ...
... Uranium extraction from seawater is a strategic deployment to the sustainable development of nuclear energy. However, challenges exist in uranium enrichment because of the extremely low U(VI) concentration and the complexity of seawater. Herein, a novel NH₂-functionalized mesoporous hydroxylated SBA-15 (NH₂-H-SBA-15), synthesized via post-grafting method was used as the adsorbent in uranium adsorp ...
... Arsenic (As), a geogenic legacy pollutant can be present in environmental matrices (water, soil, plants, or animal) in two redox states (As(III) or As(V)). In the present study, charged mono- and di-amino functionalized triethoxy and methoxyorganosilane (TT1 and TT2- 1% and 5%) were impregnated with quartz sand particles for the treatment of As polluted water. Spectroscopic characterization of org ...
... Removal of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) from hyperlipemia patients’ blood represents an effective approach to prevent the progression of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Based on the LDL structural characteristics and intermolecular interactions, a tailored nano-adsorbent (Fe₃O₄@SiO₂@PAA-PE) was prepared aimed at the removal of LDL from hyperlipemia serum with high selectivity. The core–sh ...
... Uranium extraction from seawater is regarded as the most promising strategy for solving the concerns regarding the increasing demands of the nuclear industry. Inspired by the functional proteins of natural biological entities like bacteria and proteins that can efficiently capture uranium, we have developed water-insoluble protein-based adsorbents via a one-step amyloid-like assembly process. This ...
... A distributed parameter model and two lumped parameter models were used in order to find the rate-limiting step in the adsorption process of a herbicide (Diuron) by Moringa oleifera husks, a possible low-cost adsorbent. For that, four kinetics assays, differentiated by the initial Diuron concentration, were performed. Langmuir isotherm well represented the equilibrium data and through this evaluat ...