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TL;DR: In this article, a review examines a wide variety of microorganisms (fungi, yeasts, bacteria, etc.), which are capable of uptake of organic pollutants, discusses various mechanisms involved in biosorption, discusses the effects of various parameters such as pH, temperature, concentrations of organic pollutant, other ions, and biomass in solution, pretreatment method, etc.

TL;DR: A continuous fixed bed study was carried out by using Mowital®B30H resin immobilized dried activated sludge as a biosorbent for the removal of phenol from aqueous solution.

TL;DR: In this paper, a batch system with respect to the temperature, initial pH, and initial metal ion concentration was studied, where Freundlich and Langmuir isotherm models were tried to represent the equilibrium data of cadmium(II) biosorption depending on temperature.

TL;DR: In this article, a batch system with respect to temperature and initial metal ion concentration was studied and the activation energy of biosorption (E A ) was determined as 25.92 kJ mole −1 using the Arrhenius equation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Freundlich and Langmuir adsorption models for describing the short-term biosorption of copper(II), nickel(II) and chromium(VI) by all three algae species.

TL;DR: It is evident from the literature survey articles that ion-exchange, adsorption and membrane filtration are the most frequently studied for the treatment of heavy metal wastewater.

TL;DR: It is evident from a literature survey of about 210 recent papers that low-cost sorbents have demonstrated outstanding removal capabilities for certain dyes, and chitosan might be a promising adsorbent for environmental and purification purposes.

TL;DR: This review brings up important questions that are still open, and addresses some significant issues which must be tackled in the future for a better understanding of the behavior of antibiotics in the environment, as well as the risks associated with their occurrence.

TL;DR: An overview of second-order kinetic expressions is described in this paper based on the solid adsorption capacity, which shows that a pseudo-second-order rate expression has been widely applied to the Adsorption of pollutants from aqueous solutions onto adsorbents.

TL;DR: From a comprehensive literature review, it was found that some LCAs, in addition to having wide availability, have fast kinetics and appreciable adsorption capacities too.