background: today, through various industrial processes, toxic heavy metals are released into aquatic environments that are harmful to the ecosystem. in the present investigation, removal of such contaminants from industrial wastewater is necessary. the purpose was made to extend an ecofriendly technology by using a bio carbon generated from sunflower waste biomass. methods: the impact of initi...

in the present study, removal of dibenzothiophene (dbt) from model oil (n-hexane) was investigated using magnetic activated carbon (mac) nano-composite adsorbent. the synthesized nano-composite was characterized by ft-ir, fe-sem, bet and vsm techniques. the mac nano-composite exhibited a nearly superparamagnetic property with a saturation magnetization (ms) of 29.2 emu g-1, which made it desira...

abstract- as the world's population has grown and become more urban and affluent, waste production has raised drastically. wastewater reuse has been identified as a way to alleviate water scarcity and improve crop productivity and environmental sustainability. to address the issue, a soil column experiment was carried out in a 3 × 3 factorial randomized block design including three treatments o...

a type of novel hypercross-linked fiber adsorbent was obtained by sulfonation and cross-linking reaction of polypropylene fiber grafted styrene-divinylbenzene. the aim of the fiber sulfonation and cross-linking method was to prepare rigid three dimensional networks in the entire fiber and change the ion exchange capacity of fiber. the hypercross-linked fiber adsorbent possesses a principally di...

background: chlorophenols are classified as priority toxic pollutants. these acidic organic compounds present a serious potential hazard for human health and aquatic life. chlorophenols accumulate in water, soil and air due to high stability, and impart an unpleasant taste and odor to drinking water and can exert negative effects on different biological processes. among the different methods of...

abstract: â in this study adiffusion based mathematical model was developed to compare the performance of amine-grafted adsorbents with that of 13x zeolite in a fixed-bed adsorption tower which is used to capture co2 from both humid and dry nitrogen stream under industrial conditions. the results show that the performance of amine-grafted adsorbent and 13x zeolite is almost the same in the dry ...

ammonia in air can be hazardous to human and animal life and should be removed from the environment. recently the removal of environmental pollutants such as ammonia by means of natural and modified zeolites has attracted a lot of attention and interests. in this study the capability of three iranian natural zeolites (clinoptilolite) in point of view of removal of ammonia from air was investiga...

Removal of cadmium from aqueous solution was studied by using Quetta pine (Pinus halepensis Mill.) leaves. Batch adsorption experiments were performed as a function of appropriate equilibrium time, pH, concentration of adsorbate and amount of adsorbent. The optimum pH required for maximum adsorption was found to be 7.0 and the maximum contact time for the equilibrium was 30 minutes at adsorbent...

In this study, graphene oxide (GO) was prepared using the improved Hummers’ method, and GO carboxylated modified into hydroxylated (GOH). Diatomaceous earth (DE), which exhibits stable chemical properties, a large specific surface area, high porosity, as well chitosan/magnetic chitosan, loaded by solution blending. Subsequently, oxide/diatomite/chitosan (GOH/DCS) oxide/diatomite/magnetic chitos...

Raw bagasse, Bagasse fly ash and distillery sludge, the waste generated in sugar mills and distillery have been used as lowcost potential biosorbent for the removal of hexavalent chromium from an aqueous solution. The effect of hydrogen ion concentration, contact time, adsorbent dose, initial concentrations of adsorbate and adsorbent dose on the uptake of chromium were studied in batch experime...