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Captivating actions of pomological crops waste as biosorbents for environmental remediation: a comprehensive review
Water pollutants are an emerging environmental hurdle for crop production and human health risks. In recent decades, the removal of contaminants from...
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Methods to prepare biosorbents and magnetic sorbents for water treatment: a review
Access to drinkable water is becoming more and more challenging due to worldwide pollution and the cost of water treatments. Water and wastewater...
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Modified Biosorbents as Potential Biomaterials for Arsenic Removal from Contaminated Water
Arsenic in water bodies has been a major concern around the world due to its carcinogenic properties. Among various methods of arsenic removal,...
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Enhanced Zn(II) adsorption by chemically modified sawdust based biosorbents
Heavy metals present in industrial effluents, when discharged into water channels, not only affect humans but also negatively impact plants and...
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Invasive plants as biosorbents for environmental remediation: a review
Water contamination is an environmental burden for the next generations, calling for advanced methods such as adsorption to remove pollutants. For...
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Arabica-coffee and teobroma-cocoa agro-industrial waste biosorbents, for Pb(II) removal in aqueous solutions
Agro-industrial waste biosorbents of arabica –coffee (WCA) and theobroma –cocoa (WCT) have been characterized and tested to remove Pb(II) from aqueous...
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Eu(III) removal from aqueous solutions using raw and modified pomegranate peel as biosorbents
Removal of Eu(III) from aqueous solutions was studied using pomegranate peel in raw and modified form as potential biosorbent. Low-cost chemical...
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Sugar beet lignocellulose waste as biosorbents: surface functionality, equilibrium studies and artificial neural network modeling
To meet sustainable development criteria, this paper deals with the possible utilization of solid waste materials generated from single and multiple...
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Elucidating the adsorption mechanism of Rhodamine B on mesoporous coconut coir-based biosorbents through a non-linear modeling and recycling approach
The search for renewable adsorbent materials has increased continuously, being the agro-wastes an interesting alternative. This work aimed to...
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Low-cost materials as vehicles for pesticides in aquatic media: a review of the current status of different biosorbents employed, optimization by RSM approach
Water contamination by pesticides is increasing dramatically due to population growth and the extensive use of pesticides in agriculture, leading to...
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Remediation of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds and Organic Dye Pollutants Through Biosorbents in a Circular Bioeconomy: Prospects and Constraints
The presence of endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs) and organic dye pollutants in water may have toxic, hazardous, and carcinogenic effects on...
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Removal of metallic cations from aqueous solutions using acorn pericarp fractions of Quercus ilex as new biosorbents
Acorn pericarps of the Algerian holm oak ( Quercus ilex ) constitute a largely underexploited forestry co-product. In the aim of valorization,...
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Biosorption of rare-earth and toxic metals from aqueous medium using different alternative biosorbents: evaluation of metallic affinity
Currently, the world faces difficulties related to the quantity and quality of water because of industrial expansion, population growth, and...
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A review on algal biosorbents for heavy metal remediation with different adsorption isotherm models
Biosorbent composites like chitin, alginate, moss, xanthene, and cotton can be derived from biotic species such as plants, algae, fungi, and bacteria...
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Biosorbents from Tomato, Tangerine, and Maple Leaves for the Removal of Ciprofloxacin from Aqueous Media
Ciprofloxacin is a fluoroquinolone antibiotic that is effective in vitro against Gram-positive and Gram-negative microorganisms. Since the...
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Exploring the eco-friendly potential of Moringa oleifera parts as biosorbents for atrazine removal
The ecosystem and humans have been exposed to many types of pesticides, including atrazine. However, few studies evaluated the different parts of Moringa...
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Emergent (branched bur-reed—Sparganium erectum L.) and submergent (river water-crowfoot—Ranunculus fluitans Wimm., 1841) aquatic plants as metal biosorbents under varying water pH conditions in laboratory conditions
A laboratory experiment was performed to find out the potential bioaccumulation of metals (Al, Cu, Cd, Ni, Pb, Fe, Mn) in aquatic plants acting as...
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Lead Removal from Aqueous Solutions Using Different Biosorbents
Lead is a heavy metal that causes toxic effects on the gastrointestinal tract, renal system, central and peripheral nervous system, as well as...
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An extensive review on chromium (vi) removal using natural and agricultural wastes materials as alternative biosorbents
Several conventional techniques for heavy metals decontamination for instance ion exchange, evaporation, precipitation and electroplating have been...
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Valorizing Cellulosic Biomass Waste into Valuable Nano-biosorbents
The surging global population and industrial expansion have ushered in the introduction of detrimental heavy metals and organic contaminants into the...