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Arsenic and fluoride contaminated groundwaters: A review of current technologies for contaminants removal.
Sachin V. Jadhav,Eugenio Bringas,Ganapati D. Yadav,Virendra K. Rathod,Inmaculada Ortiz,Kumudini V. Marathe +5 more
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This review critically analyzes this important issue of chronic contamination of groundwaters by both arsenic (As) and fluoride (F) and considers strategies for their removal and safe disposal.About:
This article is published in Journal of Environmental Management.The article was published on 2015-10-01. It has received 422 citations till now.read more
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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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A review on conventional and novel materials towards heavy metal adsorption in wastewater treatment application
Wai Siong Chai,Wai Siong Chai,Jie Ying Cheun,P. Senthil Kumar,Muhammad Mubashir,Zahid Majeed,Fawzi Banat,Shih-Hsin Ho,Pau Loke Show +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, a brief review on the use, theory and future perspectives of conventional, as well as novel materials towards heavy metal adsorption in wastewater treatment application is presented.
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A critical review on arsenic removal from water using iron-based adsorbents
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on the removal of arsenic from water using iron-based materials, such as iron nanoparticles, layered double hydroxides (LDHs), zero-valent iron (ZVI), iron-doped activated carbon, iron-depleted polymer/biomass materials, and iron-containing combined metal oxides.
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An overview of carbothermal synthesis of metal–biochar composites for the removal of oxyanion contaminants from aqueous solution
Ronghua Li,Ronghua Li,Jim J. Wang,Lewis A. Gaston,Baoyue Zhou,Manlin Li,Ran Xiao,Ran Xiao,Quan Wang,Zengqiang Zhang,Hui Huang,Wen Liang,Heteng Huang,Xiaofeng Zhang +13 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of metal-biochar composites for removing oxyanions from wastewater is presented, and the effects of metal dosing and pyrolysis conditions on the surface chemistry and environmental stability of the composite are discussed.
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Worldwide contamination of water by fluoride
TL;DR: In this paper, the distribution of fluoride contamination in water, its sources, mobilization and association, and the major findings are: (1) Anomalous fluoride concentration in groundwater is mainly confined to arid and semi-arid regions of Asia and North Africa.
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Arsenic removal from water/wastewater using adsorbents—A critical review
Dinesh Mohan,Charles U. Pittman +1 more
TL;DR: Strong acids and bases seem to be the best desorbing agents to produce arsenic concentrates, and some commercial adsorbents which include resins, gels, silica, treated silica tested for arsenic removal come out to be superior.
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Electrocoagulation (EC)--science and applications.
TL;DR: The objective of this review through a survey of the literature is to bring the chemistry and physical processes involved into perspective and to focus attention on those areas critically needing research.
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Aquatic arsenic: Toxicity, speciation, transformations, and remediation
Virender K. Sharma,Mary Sohn +1 more
TL;DR: The number of different arsenic species found in environmental samples and an understanding of the transformations between arsenic species has increased over the past few decades as a result of new and refined analytical methods.
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Fluoride removal from water by adsorption—A review
TL;DR: Fluoride contamination in drinking water due to natural and anthropogenic activities has been recognized as one of the major problems worldwide imposing a serious threat to human health as mentioned in this paper, and it has been identified as a major problem worldwide.
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Fluoride in drinking water and its removal.
Meenakshi,R.C. Maheshwari +1 more
TL;DR: It has been concluded that the selection of treatment process should be site specific as per local needs and prevailing conditions as each technology has some limitations and no one process can serve the purpose in diverse conditions.
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