Channelling eggshell waste to valuable and utilizable products: a comprehensive review

M Waheed, M Yousaf, A Shehzad… - Trends in Food Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Owing to increased egg consumption globally, a corresponding surge of about
18% in egg production has been recorded during the last decade as reported by WATT …

Biochar as a sorbent for contaminant management in soil and water: a review

M Ahmad, AU Rajapaksha, JE Lim, M Zhang, N Bolan… - Chemosphere, 2014 - Elsevier
Biochar is a stable carbon-rich by-product synthesized through pyrolysis/carbonization of
plant-and animal-based biomass. An increasing interest in the beneficial application of …

Effects of pyrolysis temperature on soybean stover-and peanut shell-derived biochar properties and TCE adsorption in water

M Ahmad, SS Lee, X Dou, D Mohan, JK Sung… - Bioresource …, 2012 - Elsevier
Conversion of crop residues into biochars (BCs) via pyrolysis is beneficial to environment
compared to their direct combustion in agricultural field. Biochars developed from soybean …

New trends in removing heavy metals from wastewater

M Zhao, Y Xu, C Zhang, H Rong, G Zeng - Applied microbiology and …, 2016 - Springer
With the development of researches, the treatments of wastewater have reached a certain
level. Whereas, heavy metals in wastewater cause special concern in recent times due to …

Trichloroethylene adsorption by pine needle biochars produced at various pyrolysis temperatures

M Ahmad, SS Lee, AU Rajapaksha, M Vithanage… - Bioresource …, 2013 - Elsevier
In this study, pine needles were converted to biochar (BC) at different pyrolysis temperatures
of 300, 500, and 700° C to sorb trichloroethylene (TCE), and the changes in BC properties …

Effects of soil dilution and amendments (mussel shell, cow bone, and biochar) on Pb availability and phytotoxicity in military shooting range soil

M Ahmad, SS Lee, JE Yang, HM Ro, YH Lee… - … and environmental safety, 2012 - Elsevier
Bioavailability and bioaccessibility determine the level of metal toxicity in the soils. Inorganic
soil amendments may decrease metal bioavailability and enhance soil quality. This study …

A review on economically adsorbents on heavy metals removal in water and wastewater

AP Lim, AZ Aris - Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio …, 2014 - Springer
Heavy metals contamination in water has been an issue to the environment and human
health. The persisting contamination level has been observed and concerned by the public …

[HTML][HTML] Efficiency of calcium carbonate from eggshells as an adsorbent for cadmium removal in aqueous solution

MS Tizo, LAV Blanco, ACQ Cagas, BRBD Cruz… - Sustainable …, 2018 - Elsevier
The presence of heavy metals in water resources brings hazard to health and the
environment considering that most of these cannot be degraded and may result in …

Biosorption of Pb (II) onto immobilized and native Mangifera indica waste biomass

R Nadeem, Q Manzoor, M Iqbal, J Nisar - Journal of Industrial and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The removal of Pb (II) from simulated solution and wastewater using native and immobilized
Mangifera indica biomass (MIB) were studied as a function of pH, initial concentration …

Biochar applications and modern techniques for characterization

FR Amin, Y Huang, Y He, R Zhang, G Liu… - Clean Technologies and …, 2016 - Springer
Biochar simply is the material produced when biomass undergoes any chemical processes
under the conditions of pyrolysis. The variety of biomasses, including wood waste …