Agricultural waste material as potential adsorbent for sequestering heavy metal ions from aqueous solutions - A review

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 99, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 6017-6027

  Sud, Dhiraj ^a   Mahajan, Garima ^a   Kaur, M P ^a  

^a SANT LONGOWAL INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Adsorbent; Agricultural wastes; Biosorption; Heavy metal remediation; Industrial effluents

Indexed keywords

ADSORBENTS; BIOSORPTION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; METAL IONS; SOLUTIONS;

HEAVY METAL REMEDIATION; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENTS;

AGRICULTURAL WASTES;

ADSORBENT; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; CHROMIUM; COPPER; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; METAL CHELATE; METAL COMPLEX; NICKEL; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; THIOL GROUP; ZINC;

ADSORBENTS; AGRICULTURAL WASTES; BIOSORPTION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; METAL IONS; SOLUTIONS;

ADSORPTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROP RESIDUE; EFFLUENT; HEAVY METAL; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; PHYTOMASS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEQUESTRATION (CHEMISTRY);

ADSORPTION; AGRICULTURAL WASTE; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BIOMASS; BIOSORPTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; HUMAN; ION EXCHANGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ADSORPTION; AGRICULTURE; IONS; METALS, HEAVY; SOLUTIONS; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 43849097088     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2007.11.064     Document Type: Review

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