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Applicability of agricultural waste and by-products for adsorptive removal of heavy metals from wastewater.

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This critical review discusses the potential use of agricultural waste based biosorbents for sequestering heavy metals in terms of their adsorption capacities, binding mechanisms, operating factors and pretreatment methods.
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This article is published in Bioresource Technology.The article was published on 2013-11-01. It has received 456 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Literature survey.

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Characteristics and adsorption capacities of low-cost sorbents for wastewater treatment: A review

TL;DR: In this article, low-cost byproducts from agricultural, household and industrial sectors have been recognized as a sustainable solution for wastewater treatment, which allow achieving the removal of pollutants from wastewater and at the same time to contribute to the waste minimization, recovery and reuse.
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Efficient techniques for the removal of toxic heavy metals from aquatic environment: A review

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a sketch about treatment technologies followed by their heavy metal capture capacity from industrial effluent, the treatment performance, their remediation capacity and probable environmental and health impacts were deliberated in this review article.
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Removal of heavy metals from water sources in the developing world using low-cost materials: A review.

TL;DR: This review evaluates the use of adsorbents from four major categories: agricultural waste; naturally-occurring soil and mineral deposits; aquatic and terrestrial biomass; and other locally-available waste materials.
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Electrodialysis Desalination for Water and Wastewater: A Review

TL;DR: An extensive review of current studies on the process, principles, and setups of electrodialysis (ED) technology is given to deliver a comprehensive collection of all the main findings published on this technology so far as discussed by the authors.
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Utilizations of agricultural waste as adsorbent for the removal of contaminants: A review.

TL;DR: The current research status of agricultural waste in adsorbing pollutants is summarized, which pointed out the influencing factors of adsorption, and the future development prospect of agricultural Waste as adsorbent was given.
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New trends in removing heavy metals from industrial wastewater

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the recent developments and technical applicability of various treatments for the removal of heavy metals from industrial wastewater and evaluated their advantages and limitations in application, including adsorption on new adsorbents, membrane filtration, electrodialysis, and photocatalysis.
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Removal of heavy metal ions from wastewater by chemically modified plant wastes as adsorbents: A review

TL;DR: In this review, an extensive list of plant wastes as adsorbents including rice husks, spent grain, sawdust, sugarcane bagasse, fruit wastes, weeds and others has been compiled and some of the treated adsorbent show good adsorption capacities.
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Biosorption and bioaccumulation ― the prospects for practical applications

TL;DR: The paper discusses the possibilities which offer research on pollutants-biomass interactions, pointing out that the key to elaborate an efficient method working for the nature would be to understand the mechanisms governing the processes, parameters which influence both equilibrium and kinetics, through the observation of naturally occurring phenomena.
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Sorption of cadmium from aqueous solution using pretreated rice-husk

TL;DR: The highly efficient low cost and the rapid uptake of Cd(II) by NCRH indicated that it could be an excellent alternative for the removal of heavy metal by sorption process.
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The Past, Present, and Future Trends of Biosorption

TL;DR: A review of biosorption research can be found in this paper, where a range of subjects are covered, including the initial history, raw materials, mechanisms, instrumental tools, process factors, modification and immobilization methods, recovery and regeneration, continuous processes, commercial application, and modeling studies.
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