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Waste materials for activated carbon preparation and its use in aqueous-phase treatment: a review.
Joana M. Dias,Maria C.M. Alvim-Ferraz,Manuel Almeida,José Rivera-Utrilla,Manuel Sánchez-Polo +4 more
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It is evident from the revision made that AC prepared from both conventional and non-conventional wastes might effectively compete with the commercial ones.About:
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Removal of heavy metal ions from wastewaters: A review
Fenglian Fu,Qi Wang +1 more
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.
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Application of low-cost adsorbents for dye removal – A review
V K Gupta,Suhas +1 more
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.
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Energy storage applications of activated carbons: supercapacitors and hydrogen storage
Marta Sevilla,Robert Mokaya +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the state-of-the-art with respect to the preparation of activated carbons, with emphasis on the more interesting recent developments that allow better control or maximization of porosity, the use of cheap and readily available precursors and tailoring of morphology.
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Adsorption of VOCs onto engineered carbon materials: A review
TL;DR: This review discusses recent research developments of VOC adsorption onto a variety of engineered carbonaceous adsorbents, including activated carbon, biochar, activated carbon fiber, carbon nanotube, graphene and its derivatives, carbon-silica composites, ordered mesoporous carbon, etc.
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Agricultural bio-waste materials as potential sustainable precursors used for activated carbon production: A review
TL;DR: A review on the preparation of activated carbon from agricultural waste material is presented in this article, where various physical and chemical processes for the activation of the agricultural residues and their effects on the textural properties such as surface area and pore volume are discussed.
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Non-conventional low-cost adsorbents for dye removal: A review
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.
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Low-cost adsorbents for heavy metals uptake from contaminated water: a review.
TL;DR: The technical feasibility of various low-cost adsorbents for heavy metal removal from contaminated water has been reviewed and it is evident from the literature survey of about 100 papers that low- cost adsorbent have demonstrated outstanding removal capabilities for certain metal ions as compared to activated carbon.
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Encyclopedia of Surface And Colloid Science
TL;DR: This comprehensive reference collects fundamental theories and recent research from a wide range of fields including biology, biochemistry, physics, applied mathematics, and computer, materials, surface, and colloid science providing key references, tools, and analytical techniques for practical applications in industrial, agricultural, and forensic processes.
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Adsorption — from theory to practice
TL;DR: This review presents in brief the history of adsorption and highlights the progress in theoretical description of the phenomenon under consideration, as well as presenting some of the latest important results and giving a source of up-to-date literature on it.
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Activated carbons and low cost adsorbents for remediation of tri- and hexavalent chromium from water.
Dinesh Mohan,Charles U. Pittman +1 more
TL;DR: The sorption capacities of commercial developed carbons and other low cost sorbents for chromium remediation are provided, and particular attention is paid to comparing the sorption efficiency and capacities of commercially available activated carbons to otherLow cost alternatives.