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On Assessing Risks to Fish Habitats and Populations Associated with a Transportation Corridor for Proposed Mine Operations in a Salmon-rich Watershed
Natural resource extraction in large undeveloped areas—such as the Bristol Bay watershed in Southwest Alaska—often necessitates construction of roads...
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Performance of Xanthate-Modified Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Adsorption of Lead Ions
A novel adsorbent was prepared by introducing xanthate group onto pristine multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) for removing Pb (II) from aqueous...
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Effective removal of heavy metal: mercury concentration using natural adsorbents
Industrial effluent is not always safe to the environment because of the presence of huge amounts of substantial heavy metals like arsenic, cadmium,...
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Nanomaterials for Water Purification and Reclamation
Rapid urbanization and industrialization are responsible for severely impacting natural environment. Water is the basis of our life, but industrial...
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Competitive Bioadsorption of Pb+2 and Cu+2 Ions by Caryocar coriaceum WITTM. Barks
AbstractSeveral environmental impacts are associated with the improper disposal of toxic metals in the environment. The bioadsorption stands out for...
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The adsorption effect of aquaculture residual feed on heavy metals and its impact on microbial metabolism of feed
BackgroundIntensive and large-scale aquaculture has a high biological density, and a large amount of artificial feed must be provided. As a result,...
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Investigation of Hydrogen Reduction for Metal Recovery from End-of-Life Lithium-Ion Batteries
The growing demand for LIBs in electric-mobility applications mounts to the massive availability of discarded NMC-type batteries and calls for...
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Polymer Absorbents for Heavy Metal Removal
Mixing of heavy metal and metalloid in water bodies is an established issue, and it is highly under scientific consideration by several research. The...
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Efficiently Photocatalytic Activities of Novel Metal-free g-C3N4 Under Simulated Solar Irradiation: Removal Efficiency, Influence Factors, and Reaction Mechanism
Visible-light photocatalysis shows high removal efficiency and low cost. In this study, graphic carbon nitride (g-C 3 N 4 ) was prepared via one-step...
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Kinetic Investigation of Initial Oxidative Dissolution of Pyrite in Alkaline Media (pH 9–12) and Influence of Ca and Mg: A Fundamental Study for Pyrite Depression in Froth Flotation
Froth flotation is a common mineral processing technique that is used to remove low economic gangue minerals, such as pyrite, from ore. The main...
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Remediation of water tainted with noxious aspirin and fluoride ion using UiO-66-NH2 loaded peanut shell
One green adsorbent, UiO-66-NH 2 modified peanut shell (c-PS-MOF), was prepared in a green synthetic route for improving the capture level of aspirin...
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Polysaccharides for sustainable leather production: a review
Leather production for human protection has been an essential industrial activity since the start of civilization, yet classical leavering...
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Pseudomonas Species for Environmental Cleaning of Toxic Heavy Metals
Since many industries are generating toxic heavy metal ions, the environment is continuously polluted involuntarily or voluntarily, in particular in...
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Influence of the surface modification of granular-activated carbon synthesized from macauba on heavy metal sorption
Adsorption on activated carbon is a promising technique for the treatment of low-concentration heavy metal pollutants in water with high efficiency...
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Metal Transport and Its Impact on Coastal Ecosystem
Heavy metal pollution has risen as an alarming threat in the aquatic systems, including coastal ecosystems comprising of mangroves, salt marshes,...
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Sequestration of Ni (II), Pb (II), and Zn (II) utilizing biogenic synthesized Fe3O4/CLPC NCs and modified Fe3O4/CLPC@CS NCs: Process optimization, simulation modeling, and feasibility study
The present study reports low-cost novel biogenic magnetite Citrus limetta peels carbon (Fe 3 O 4 /CLPC) nanocomposites and modified Fe 3 O 4 /CLPC@CS...
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Remediation of Pesticide in Water
PesticidesPesticides, widely used in agricultureAgriculture to kill pests, have serious adverse effects on the environment Environments and human...
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Textile Wastewater Treatment Using Sustainable Technologies: Advanced Oxidation and Degradation Using Metal Ions and Polymeric Materials
Textile industries are considered as one of the major contributors for water pollution. Textile wastewater primarily contains organic dye molecules...
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Life cycle impacts assessment of two gold extraction systems in Colombia: open-pit and alluvial mining
PurposeGold mining has historically and significantly contributed to the Colombian economy. Gold extraction in Colombia is mainly done through two...
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Potentialities of Agro-Based Wastes to Remove Cd, Hg, Pb, and As from Contaminated Waters
Apple residues, banana peel, eggshell, potato peel, and sweet potato peel were tested as biosorbents to remove top priority contaminants (As, Cd, Hg,...
