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Green Materials for Wastewater Treatment

  • This book is written in an accessible style to expedite ease of understanding
  • Presents the wastewater treatment containing toxic metals, dyes, phenols and pesticides
  • Highlights the removal of various organic/inorganic pollutants using activated carbon, algal biomass and ionic liquid modified activated carbons

Part of the book series: Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World (ECSW, volume 38)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Environmental Issues: A Challenge for Wastewater Treatment

    • Meenakshi Choudhary, C. N. Peter, Sudheesh K. Shukla, Penny P. Govender, Girish M. Joshi, Rui Wang
    Pages 1-12
  3. Activated Carbon from Different Waste Materials for the Removal of Toxic Metals

    • Soodamani Periyasamy, Ilango Aswin Kumar, Natrayasamy Viswanathan
    Pages 47-68
  4. Bioremediation of Toxic Heavy Metals Using Marine Algae Biomass

    • Laura Bulgariu, Dumitru Bulgariu
    Pages 69-98
  5. Treatment of Dye Containing Wastewater Using Agricultural Biomass Derived Magnetic Adsorbents

    • A. Saravanan, P. Senthil Kumar, P. R. Yaashikaa
    Pages 149-169
  6. Research Updates on Heavy Metal Phytoremediation: Enhancements, Efficient Post-harvesting Strategies and Economic Opportunities

    • S. Muthusaravanan, N. Sivarajasekar, J. S. Vivek, S. Vasudha Priyadharshini, T. Paramasivan, Nirajan Dhakal et al.
    Pages 191-222
  7. Adsorptive Removal of Toxic Dyes Using Chitosan and Its Composites

    • Swati Verma, Raj Kumar Dutta
    Pages 223-255
  8. Ionic Liquid Modified Activated Carbon for the Treatment of Textile Wastewater

    • Tanvir Arfin, Neelima Varshney, Bhawana Singh
    Pages 257-275
  9. Titania–Montmorillonite for the Photocatalytic Removal of Contaminants from Water: Adsorb & Shuttle Process

    • Ridha Djellabi, Mohamed Fouzi Ghorab, Abdelaziz Smara, Claudia Letizia Bianchi, Giuseppina Cerrato, Xu Zhao et al.
    Pages 291-319
  10. Jet Fuel from Domestic Wastewater Treatment Using Microalgae: A Review

    • Joseph K. Bwapwa, Anandraj Akash, Cristina Trois
    Pages 321-360
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 361-366

About this book

This book reviews health hazards associated with wastewater use and water pollutants. Chapters present applications of green materials made of agricultural waste, activated carbon and magnetic materials for wastewater treatment. The removal of toxic metals using algal biomass and the removal of toxic dyes using chitosan composite materials are also discussed. The book includes reviews on the removal of phenols, pesticides, and on the use of ionic liquid-modified activated carbon for the treatment of textile wastewater.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Mu. Naushad

  • Aix Marseille University, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Coll France, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France

    Eric Lichtfouse

About the editors

Dr. Mu. Naushad is presently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He obtained his M.Sc and Ph.D Degree in Analytical chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India in 2002 and 2007, respectively. He has a vast research experience in the fields of Analytical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Environmental Science. He holds several US patents, over ^5800 citations with a Google Scholar H-Index of >47. He has successfully run several research projects funded by National plan for Science, Technology and Innovation (NPST) and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is the editor/editorial member of several reputed Journals like Scientific Report (Nature); Process Safety & Environmental Protection (Elsevier); Journal of Water Process Engineering (Elsevier) and International Journal of Environmental Research & PublicHealth (MDPI). He is also the associate editor for Environmental Chemistry Letters (Springer) and Desalination & Water Treatment (Taylor & Francis). He has been awarded the Scientist of the year award-2015 from National Environmental Science Academy, Delhi, India and Almarai Award-2017, Saudi Arabia.


Dr. Eric Lichtfouse (PhD), born in 1960, is an environmental chemist working at the University of Aix-Marseille, France. He has invented carbon-13 dating, a method allowing to measure the relative age and turnover of molecular organic compounds occurring in different temporal pools of any complex media. He is teaching scientific writing and communication, and has published the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factors, which includes a new tool – the Micro-Article - to identify the novelty of research results. He is founder and Chief Editor of scientific journals and series in environmental chemistry and agriculture. He got the Analytical Chemistry Prize bythe French Chemical Society, the Grand Prize of the Universities of Nancy and Metz, and a Journal Citation Award by the Essential Indicators.


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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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