A comprehensive review of biochar in removal of organic pollutants from wastewater: Characterization, toxicity, activation/functionalization and influencing treatment …

H Zeghioud, L Fryda, H Djelal, A Assadi… - Journal of Water Process …, 2022 - Elsevier
The current climate and environmental challenges demand novel and cost-effective
sustainable materials with a high efficacy and eco-friendly properties. Biochar (BC) has …

Chemical, physical and biological methods to convert lignocellulosic waste into value-added products. A review

S Periyasamy, V Karthik, P Senthil Kumar… - Environmental …, 2022 - Springer
Actual agricultural practices produce about 998 million tonnes of agricultural waste per year.
Therefore, converting lignocellulosic wastes into energy, chemicals, and other products is a …

Adsorption and photocatalytic degradation of quinolone antibiotics from wastewater using functionalized biochar

N Cheng, B Wang, M Chen, Q Feng, X Zhang… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Quinolone antibiotics are emerging environmental contaminants, which cause serious harm
to the ecological environment and human health. How to effectively remove these emerging …

Towards sustainable wastewater treatment by biological methods–A challenges and advantages of recent technologies

R Sathya, MV Arasu, NA Al-Dhabi, P Vijayaraghavan… - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
Water is one of the most emerging substances on earth. All living things, including plants
and animals, must have water to survive. Rapid urbanization and industrialization afford …

Biosensor for heavy metals detection in wastewater: A review

K Velusamy, S Periyasamy, PS Kumar… - Food and Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pollution due to heavy metals is a global issue in recent years. Initially, there were fewer
contaminants, which has increased exponentially owing to rapid industrialization and …

A critical review on biochar for the removal of toxic pollutants from water environment

R Sivaranjanee, PS Kumar, B Chitra, G Rangasamy - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
As an effort to tackle some of the most pressing ecological issues we are currently
experiencing, there has been an increasing interest in employing biomass-derived char …

Technologies for removing pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) from aqueous solutions: Recent advances, performances, challenges and …

T Liu, CO Aniagor, MI Ejimofor, MC Menkiti… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, the removal of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) from
aqueous solutions has been gaining a lot of attention from researchers throughout the world …

Activated carbon-chitosan based adsorbent for the efficient removal of the emerging contaminant diclofenac: synthesis, characterization and phytotoxicity studies

A Kumar, C Patra, HK Rajendran, S Narayanasamy - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
The rise in pharmaceutical pollutants due to their unregulated discharge in pharmaceutical
wastewater has landed them as emerging contaminants that would gradually affect the …

Electrochemical sensing system for the analysis of emerging contaminants in aquatic environment: A review

R Sivaranjanee, PS Kumar, R Saravanan… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
This survey distinguishes understudied spaces of arising impurity research in wastewaters
and the habitat, and suggests bearing for future checking. Thinking about the impeding …

Efficient adsorptive removal of fluoroquinolone antibiotics from water by alkali and bimetallic salts co-hydrothermally modified sludge biochar

Y Ma, T Lu, L Yang, L Wu, P Li, J Tang, Y Chen… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fluoroquinolones are one of most commonly used antibiotics for preventing and treating
bacterial infections and their unsatisfactory removal by conventional wastewater treatment …