Industrial wastes as low-cost potential adsorbents for the treatment of wastewater laden with heavy metals

M Ahmaruzzaman - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2011 - Elsevier
Industrial wastes, such as, fly ash, blast furnace slag and sludge, black liquor lignin, red
mud, and waste slurry, etc. are currently being investigated as potential adsorbents for the …

Agricultural waste material as potential adsorbent for sequestering heavy metal ions from aqueous solutions–A review

D Sud, G Mahajan, MP Kaur - Bioresource technology, 2008 - Elsevier
Heavy metal remediation of aqueous streams is of special concern due to recalcitrant and
persistency of heavy metals in environment. Conventional treatment technologies for the …

[LIBRO][B] Handbook of wood chemistry and wood composites

RM Rowell - 2005 - taylorfrancis.com
The degradable nature of high-performance, wood-based materials is an attractive
advantage when considering environmental factors such as sustainability, recycling, and …

Heavy metal adsorption onto agro-based waste materials: a review

A Demirbas - Journal of hazardous materials, 2008 - Elsevier
Adsorption has been proved to be an excellent way to treat industrial waste effluents,
offering significant advantages like the low-cost, availability, profitability, easy of operation …

Adsorption of several metal ions onto a low-cost biosorbent: kinetic and equilibrium studies

Z Reddad, C Gerente, Y Andres… - Environmental science & …, 2002 - ACS Publications
Sugar beet pulp generated by sugar-refining factories has been shown to be an effective
adsorbent for the removal of heavy metals from aqueous solutions. The structural …

Removal of cadmium from aqueous solutions by adsorption onto orange waste

AB Pérez-Marín, VM Zapata, JF Ortuno… - Journal of hazardous …, 2007 - Elsevier
The use of orange wastes, generated in the orange juice industry, for removing cadmium
from aqueous solutions has been investigated. The material was characterized by Fourier …

Adsorption/desorption of Cd (II), Cu (II) and Pb (II) using chemically modified orange peel: Equilibrium and kinetic studies

MR Lasheen, NS Ammar, HS Ibrahim - Solid State Sciences, 2012 - Elsevier
Waste materials from industries such as food processing may act as cost effective and
efficient biosorbents to remove toxic contaminants from wastewater. This study aimed to …

Biosorption mechanism of nine different heavy metals onto biomatrix from rice husk

KK Krishnani, X Meng, C Christodoulatos… - Journal of hazardous …, 2008 - Elsevier
A biomatrix was prepared from rice husk, a lignocellulosic waste from agro-industry, for the
removal of several heavy metals as a function of pH and metal concentrations in single and …

Magnetic nanoparticle (Fe3O4) impregnated onto tea waste for the removal of nickel (II) from aqueous solution

P Panneerselvam, N Morad, KA Tan - Journal of hazardous materials, 2011 - Elsevier
The removal of Ni (II) from aqueous solution by magnetic nanoparticles prepared and
impregnated onto tea waste (Fe3O4–TW) from agriculture biomass was investigated …

Characterization of modified wheat straw, kinetic and equilibrium study about copper ion and methylene blue adsorption in batch mode

R Han, L Zhang, C Song, M Zhang, H Zhu… - Carbohydrate …, 2010 - Elsevier
The citric acid modified wheat straw (MWS) was characterized and the adsorption properties
of copper ion and methylene blue (MB) onto MWS were investigated in single adsorbate …