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Low-Cost Adsorbents For Water Purification, Hasara Dilum Samaraweera
Low-Cost Adsorbents For Water Purification, Hasara Dilum Samaraweera
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Heavy metals, oxyanions (NO3-, PO4-), pharmaceuticals, and dyes in aquatic environments are inevitable economic and health concerns. Ingestion of these contaminants, even in trace amounts, causes long and short-term serious threats to human health. Conventional pollutant mitigation strategies can be costly or ineffective. Due to high efficiency, simplicity, low price, adsorbent reuse, and pollutant (e.g., phosphates) recovery, adsorption has been widely used for wastewater purification. Many efficient, environmentally compatible, and cost-effective sorbents have been successfully applied in environmental remediation. Chapter I is about characterization of graphene-coated pinewood biochar hybrids and evaluation of their copper removal performances. Here, we synthesized three …