introduction one concern in the disposal of municipal solid waste (msw) by landfill is the production of leachate. acidic water is capable of dissolving elements from the waste; and, as a result, the leachate can become quite contaminated. one of the heavy metals present in leachate, cadmium poses a great concern in terms of environmental contamination since it is toxic to nearly all living org...

zinc ions are present in different types of industrial effluents, being responsible for environmental pollution. biosorption is a process in which solids of natural origin are employed for binding heavy metals. it is a promising alternative method to treat heavy metal wastes mainly because of high metal binding capacity. the effect of some important parameters on sorption capacity of cyanobacte...

In this work, a low-cost lignocellulosic adsorbent with high biosorption capacity is proposed, suitable for the efficient removal of hexavalent chromium from water and wastewater media. The adsorbent was produced by autohydrolyzing Scots Pine (Pinus Sylvestris) sawdust. The effect of the autohydrolysis conditions, i.e., pretreatment time and temperature, on hexavalent chromium biosorption was i...

Adsorption of ammonia from anaerobic digester effluent by magnetically modified zeolite (MMZ) has been investigated using a batch technique and comparison of adsorption isotherm equations. Adsorption isotherm models were utilized to describe the equilibrium isotherms and the isotherm constants were calculated. The sorption of ammonia follows Langmuir, Freundlich and Dubinin-Radushkevich (D-R) m...

Equilibrium models used for predicting phosphorus (P) loss from a site often use the Langmuir strength of P bonding, KL and the P sorption maximum, Smax, or the Freundlich adsorption coefficient, KF, obtained from traditional isotherms, as model input parameters. The overall objective of the study was to develop a protocol to allow estimation of isotherm parameters for soils using simple extrac...

The influence of adsorption-desorption phenomena and distribution of pore sizes on lhe leaching beh.viour of two herbicides, thiazafluron (highly polar, nonionic) and clopyralid (anionic) in three soils has been studied. Adsorption d.ta, obtained by b.tch equilibriwn, were fitted to Freundlich equation and Kf values calculated. Pore size distribution of the soils was studied by mercury porosime...