Biosorption of heavy metals from aqueous solution by various chemically modified agricultural wastes: A review

HI Syeda, I Sultan, KS Razavi, PS Yap - Journal of Water Process …, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, with the global increase in industrialization, there has been a significant
increase in the amount of toxic pollutants such as heavy metals being released into water …

Low-cost adsorbents: growing approach to wastewater treatment—a review

VK Gupta, PJM Carrott… - Critical reviews in …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Industrial, agricultural, and domestic activities of humans have affected the environmental
system, resulting in drastic problems such as global warming and the generation of …

Adsorption of lead on cucumber peel

M Basu, AK Guha, L Ray - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017 - Elsevier
The competency of cucumber peel (CP) was explored for adsorption of lead. Optimum
adsorption occurred at pH 5.0 and at incubation temperature of 30° C. The process of …

Removal of methylene blue from aqueous solution using Lathyrus sativus husk: adsorption study, MPR and ANN modelling

I Ghosh, S Kar, T Chatterjee, N Bar, SK Das - Process Safety and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The low-cost, eco-friendly husk of Lathyrus sativus (HLS) was tested as a promising bio-
sorbent for removing methylene blue (MB) dye from aqueous solution. The batch study was …

Recovery of rare earth metals through biosorption: an overview

N Das, D Das - Journal of rare earths, 2013 - Elsevier
Rare earth metals (REMs) are a series of 17 elements that have widespread and unique
applications in high technology, power generation, communications, and defense industries …

Recovery of precious metals through biosorption—a review

N Das - Hydrometallurgy, 2010 - Elsevier
Recovery of precious metals like gold, silver, palladium platinum etc. is interesting due to its
high market prices along with various industrial applications. Conventional technologies viz …

Determination of sorbent point zero charge: usefulness in sorption studies

N Fiol, I Villaescusa - Environmental chemistry letters, 2009 - Springer
Potentiometric mass titration (PMT) technique has been adapted to determine the pH pzc of
four vegetable wastes: grape stalks, cork, yohimbe bark and olive stones wastes used for Cu …

A review on progress of heavy metal removal using adsorbents of microbial and plant origin

S Srivastava, SB Agrawal, MK Mondal - Environmental Science and …, 2015 - Springer
Heavy metals released into the water bodies and on land surfaces by industries are highly
toxic and carcinogenic in nature. These heavy metals create serious threats to all the flora …

Characteristics of pseudo-second-order kinetic model for liquid-phase adsorption: A mini-review

FC Wu, RL Tseng, SC Huang, RS Juang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2009 - Elsevier
Since the introduction of pseudo-second-order (PSO) model for the description of adsorption
kinetics in 1999, it has been widely applied in liquid-phase adsorption systems. An …

Recent progress on biosorption of heavy metals from liquids using low cost biosorbents: characterization, biosorption parameters and mechanism studies

VO Arief, K Trilestari, J Sunarso… - CLEAN–Soil, Air …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
A significant number of biosorption studies on the removal of heavy metal from aqueous
solutions have been conducted worldwide. Nearly all of them have been directed towards …