In the last few decades, pharmaceuticals, credited with saving millions of lives, have emerged as a new class of environmental contaminant. These compounds can have both …
Y Dai, N Zhang, C **ng, Q Cui, Q Sun - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
In recent years, with the continuous development of industry and agriculture, the content of organic pollutants in the environment has been increasing, which has caused serious …
Rice is second only to maize among the world's most important cereal crops, with a global harvested area of approximately 158 million hectares and an annual production of more …
KL Tan, BH Hameed - Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical …, 2017 - Elsevier
The past decade has seen a boom in environmental adsorption studies on the adsorptive removal of pollutants from the aqueous phase. A large majority of works treat kinetic …
Biochar (BC) exhibits a great potential as an adsorbent in decontamination of water. To improve the adsorption capabilities and impart the particular functionalities of BC, various …
Utilization of biochar (BC) as a low cost adsorbent for water remediation has gained an immense research interest due to their surface functionality and porosity. Although many …
As an alternative to activated carbon, biochar has been considered for removal of organic micropollutants from water and wastewater via adsorption. This review elaborates on the …
Y Fu, Y Shen, Z Zhang, X Ge, M Chen - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
The activated bio-chars (AB) were successfully synthesized from rice husk by one-and two- step KOH-catalyzed pyrolysis. The two-step pyrolysis can produce the high yields of AB …