Overview
- Summarizes up-to-date research on new methods of enhancing chitosan for water treatment
- Highlights novel applications of chitosan as a stable and reusable modified adsorbent for water treatment
- Gives an advanced overview of many relevant materials characterization techniques
- Features development and application of specialized software for modelling adsorption kinetics
Part of the book series: Engineering Materials (ENG.MAT.)
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About this book
This book reviews some of the latest developments in the field of water treatment using multi-functional chitosan-based materials. It covers the production of chitosan beads and membranes from chitosan powder, as well as modification techniques for enhancing the material for commercial and industrial purposes. The book summarizes the results of experimental adsorption/desorption studies for elucidating the underlying reaction mechanism of heavy-metal removal from wastewater, presenting an advanced overview of an array of characterization techniques such as Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, x-ray diffraction, and scanning electron microscopy. Additionally, it features a look at the development and application of specialized engineering software and image analysis for modelling the kinetics of adsorption. This book is ideal for scientists and engineers working in the broader field of environmental materials science. It is all well suited for chemists, as well as industrial and civil engineers, interested in wastewater treatment and mitigation of water pollution
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Chemical Engineering, Vaal University of Technology, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa
Ephraim Igberase, Peter Ogbemudia Osifo, Tumisang Seodigeng, Ikenna Emeji
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Enhanced Chitosan Material for Water Treatment
Book Subtitle: Applications of Multi-Functional Chitosan Derivative
Authors: Ephraim Igberase, Peter Ogbemudia Osifo, Tumisang Seodigeng, Ikenna Emeji
Series Title: Engineering Materials
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71722-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71721-6Published: 30 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71724-7Published: 30 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71722-3Published: 29 April 2021
Series ISSN: 1612-1317
Series E-ISSN: 1868-1212
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 160
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomaterials, Chemistry/Food Science, general, Pollution, general, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry