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Green Adsorbents to Remove Metals, Dyes and Boron from Polluted Water

  • In-depth literature on wastewater remediation using adsorption
  • Contributions from international experts
  • Colour illustrations

Part of the book series: Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World (ECSW, volume 49)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Synthesis of Activated Carbons for Heavy Metals Removal

    • Babatunde Oladipo, Taiwo H. Ibrahim, Sheriff O. Ajala, Aramide M. Akintunde, Abiola E. Taiwo, Eriola Betiku
    Pages 1-31
  3. Polymer Absorbents for Heavy Metal Removal

    • Aneela Sabir, Rida Batool, Faizah Altaf, Muhammad Shafiq, Rafi Ullah Khan, Karl I. Jacob
    Pages 33-55
  4. Metal Oxyhydroxide Composites for Halogens and Metalloid Removal

    • Esmeralda Vences-Alvarez, Cesar Nieto-Delgado, Jose Rene Rangel-Mendez
    Pages 57-91
  5. Montmorillonite Clay Composite for Heavy Metal Removal from Water

    • Jülide Hızal, Mesut YılmazoÄŸlu
    Pages 93-112
  6. Cellulose-Based Adsorbents for Heavy Metal Removal

    • Soma Nag, Swarup Biswas
    Pages 113-142
  7. Recovery of Heavy Metals by Membrane Adsorbers

    • Yilmaz Yurekli
    Pages 143-170
  8. Metal Hexacyanoferrate Absorbents for Heavy Metal Removal

    • Mario Berrettoni, Angelo Mullaliu, Marco Giorgetti
    Pages 171-194
  9. Agricultural Waste Absorbents for Heavy Metal Removal

    • Aneela Sabir, Faizah Altaf, Rida Batool, Muhammad Shafiq, Rafi Ullah Khan, Karl I. Jacob
    Pages 195-228
  10. Biosorption of Metal Ions Present in Industrial Wastewater

    • Dhanya Vishnu, Kannappan Panchamoorthy Gopinath, Balaji Dhandapani
    Pages 229-243
  11. Heavy Metal Removal by Low-Cost Adsorbents

    • Manisha Maharana, Madhumita Manna, Moumita Sardar, Sujit Sen
    Pages 245-272
  12. Characteristics and Adsorptive Treatment of Wastewaters Containing Dyes

    • Anna WoÅ‚owicz, Monika Wawrzkiewicz
    Pages 273-311
  13. Biomass-Based Absorbents for Heavy Metal Removal

    • Swarup Biswas, Soma Nag
    Pages 351-376
  14. Remediation of Dyes from Industrial Wastewater Using Low-Cost Adsorbents

    • Moumita Sardar, Madhumita Manna, Manisha Maharana, Sujit Sen
    Pages 377-403
  15. Hybrid Adsorbents for Dye Removal from Wastewater

    • Rozita M. Moattari, Toraj Mohammadi
    Pages 405-451
  16. Back Matter

    Pages 453-462

About this book

This book reviews adsorption techniques to clean wastewater, with focus on pollution by dyes and heavy metals. Advanced adsorbents include carbon nanomaterials, biomass, cellulose, polymers, clay, composites and chelating materials.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Chemistry Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Department of Applied Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

    Inamuddin

  • Department of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

    Mohd Imran Ahamed

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

    Eric Lichtfouse

  • Chemistry Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Abdullah M. Asiri

About the editors

Dr. Inamuddin is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is a permanent faculty member (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Applied Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. He obtained Master of Science degree in Organic Chemistry from Chaudhary Charan Singh (CCS) University, Meerut, India, in 2002. He received his Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Applied Chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He has extensive research experience in multidisciplinary fields of Analytical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, and Electrochemistry and, more specifically, Renewable Energy and Environment. He has worked on different research projects as project fellow and senior research fellow funded by University Grants Commission (UGC), Government of India, and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India. He has received Fast Track Young Scientist Award from the Department of Science and Technology, India, to work in the area of bending actuators and artificial muscles. He has completed four major research projects sanctioned by University Grant Commission, Department of Science and Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and Council of Science and Technology, India. He has published 139 research articles in international journals of repute and eighteen book chapters in knowledge-based book editions published by renowned international publishers. He has published forty-six edited books with Springer, United Kingdom, Elsevier, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. U.S.A., CRC Press Taylor & Francis Asia Pacific, Trans Tech Publications Ltd., Switzerland, IntechOpen Limited, U.K. and Materials Science Forum LLC, U.S.A. He is the member of various editorial boards of the journals and serving as associate editor for journals such as Environmental Chemistry Letter, Applied Water Science, Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration, Springer-Nature, Frontiers Section Editor of Current Analytical Chemistry, published by Bentham Science Publishers, editorial board member for Scientific Reports-Nature, editor for Eurasian Journal of Analytical Chemistry and Review Editor, Frontiers in Chemistry, published by Frontiers, U.K. He is also guest editing various special thematic special issues to the journals of Elsevier, Bentham Science Publishers and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. He has attended as well as chaired sessions in various international and national conferences. He has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow, leading a research team at the Creative Research Initiative Center for Bio-Artificial Muscle, Hanyang University, South Korea, in the field of renewable energy, especially biofuel cells. He has also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center of Research Excellence in Renewable Energy, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, in the field of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells and computational fluid dynamics of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. He is a life member of the Journal of the Indian Chemical Society. His research interest includes ion exchange materials, a sensor for heavy metal ions, biofuel cells, supercapacitors and bending actuators.

Dr. Mohd Imran Ahamed received his Ph.D degree on the topic "Synthesis and characterization of inorganic-organic composite heavy metals selective cation-exchangers and their analytical applications", from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India in 2019. He has published several research and review articles in the journals of international recognition. He has also edited various books which are published by Springer, CRC Press Taylor & Francis Asia Pacific and Materials Science Forum LLC, U.S.A. He has completed his B.Sc. (Hons) Chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, and M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry)from Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra, India. His research work includes ion-exchange chromatography, wastewater treatment, and analysis, bending actuator and electrospinning.

Dr. Eric Lichtfouse is a biogeochemist at Aix Marseille University who has invented carbon-13 dating, a molecular-level method allowing to study the dynamics of organic compounds in temporal pools of complex environmental media. He is Chief Editor of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters, and the book series Sustainable Agriculture Reviews and Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World. He is the author of the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journals, which includes an innovative writing tool: the Micro-Article.

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