
Sorbents Materials for Controlling Environmental Pollution
Current State and Trends
- 1st Edition - February 16, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Avelino Nunez-Delgado
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 0 4 2 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 1 8 4 - 8
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Request a sales quoteSorbents Materials for Controlling Environmental Pollution: Current State and Trends presents data on current use and future trends regarding sorbent materials employed against soil, water, and air pollution. The book is organized first by use and research for a variety of geographic areas. It will then focus on different sorbent materials and their uses, followed by various pollutants and their management. Including updated and extensive data from an assortment of sources, the book is organized to be very accessible, including with an interactive table to help identify the results of appropriate sorbents for each environmental compartment.
The growing concern regarding soil, water and air pollution all over the world has implications for climate change and sustainability, making Sorbents Materials for Controlling Environmental Pollution: Current State and Trends an important reference for environmental scientists to identify tools for moving forward in solving these problems.
- Includes data and examples from various geographic locations worldwide
- Synthesizes data for a variety of sorbent material from different sources
- Presents data for various kinds of pollutants across environmental spheres, including soil, water, and air
- Utilizes an interactive table for quicker access to data and results
Environmental Engineers, Chemical Engineers, researchers of nanomaterials
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1.1: Brief comments on definitions and fundamentals of sorption and adsorption processes
- 1.2: Current situation
- 1.3: Conclusions
- Part 1: Global case studies
- Chapter 2: Data on the use of sorbents to control pollution in Europe, with main focus on Spain and Galicia
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 2.1: Introduction
- 2.2: Data on the overall situation in Europe
- 2.3: Data on the situation in Spain
- 2.4: Data on the situation in Galicia (NW Spain)
- 2.5: Conclusions
- Chapter 3: Sustainable origin-sorbents for heavy metal contamination: Research progress within an Australian context
- Abstract
- 3.1: Contaminated land in Australia
- Chapter 4: Current situation and future prospects for the production and utilization of sorbing materials for water depollution in North Africa
- Abstract
- 4.1: Introduction
- 4.2: Libya section
- 4.3: Tunisia section
- 4.4: Morocco section
- 4.5: Conclusions and outlook
- Part 2: Sorbents to fight water pollution
- Chapter 5: Remediation of water polluted with model endocrine disruptors based on adsorption processes
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 5.1: Introduction
- 5.2: Characteristics of adsorbates
- 5.3: Adsorbents
- 5.4: Adsorption of endocrine disruptors
- 5.5: Conclusions and future prospects
- Chapter 6: The application of pine-based adsorbents to remove potentially toxic elements from aqueous solutions
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 6.1: Introduction
- 6.2: Adsorption modeling
- 6.3: Pine-based adsorbents
- 6.4: Comparison and affinity studies
- 6.5: Conclusions
- Chapter 7: Date pits activated carbon as an effective adsorbent for water treatment
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 7.1: Introduction
- 7.2: Date pits potential as a useful waste
- 7.3: Date-pits AC preparation
- 7.4: AC characterization
- 7.5: Adsorption performance and mechanisms
- 7.6: AC regeneration
- 7.7: Summary
- Chapter 8: Magnetic biochar-based composites for removal of recalcitrant pollutants in water
- Abstract
- 8.1: Introduction of recalcitrant pollutants and magnetic biochar-based composites
- 8.2: Preparation methods of magnetic biochar-based composites
- 8.3: Application of magnetic biochar-based composites as adsorbent
- 8.4: Mechanisms of recalcitrant pollutants removal
- 8.5: Future perspectives and expectations
- Chapter 9: Biochar as a sorbent for organic and inorganic pollutants
- Abstract
- 9.1: Introduction
- 9.2: Sources and types of biochar
- 9.3: Production of biochar
- 9.4: Structure, composition, and properties of biochar
- 9.5: Mechanisms of biochar for organic pollutants removal
- 9.6: Biochar as a sorbent for organic compounds: General discussion
- 9.7: Mechanisms of biochar for inorganic pollutants removal
- 9.8: Biochar as a sorbent for inorganic pollutants: General discussion
- 9.9: Factors affecting the sorption of biochar
- 9.10: Conclusions
- Chapter 10: Iron-based materials for removal of arsenic from water
- Abstract
- 10.1: Introduction
- 10.2: Synthesis and modification methods for iron-based materials
- 10.3: Characterization techniques for Iron-based materials
- 10.4: Occurrence of arsenic in aquatic environment
- 10.5: Influencing factors in the adsorption removal of arsenic from water
- 10.6: Mechanisms of aquatic arsenic adsorption by iron-based materials
- 10.7: Conclusions and future research needs
- Chapter 11: Sorbent hydrogels to control heavy metal pollution in water
- Abstract
- 11.1: Introduction
- 11.2: Sorbent hydrogels structure and properties (bulk characterization properties)
- 11.3: Sorption methods and mechanisms
- 11.4: Effective factors on sorbent hydrogels performance
- 11.5: Characterization techniques for sorbent hydrogels
- 11.6: Conclusion
- Chapter 12: Sorbents from waste materials: A circular economic approach
- Abstract
- 12.1: Introduction
- 12.2: Methodology
- 12.3: Sorbents from industrial waste
- 12.4: Sorbents from biomass
- 12.5: Sorbents from polymer and electronic waste
- 12.6: Application of sorbents from waste materials in pollution remediation
- 12.7: Discussion and analysis
- 12.8: Conclusion
- Chapter 13: Chitosan-based green sorbents for toxic cations removal
- Abstract
- 13.1: History of chitin and chitosan
- 13.2: Source of chitin
- 13.3: Isolation of chitin
- 13.4: Deacetylation process (conversion of chitin to chitosan)
- 13.5: Structure of chitin and chitosan
- 13.6: Chitosan—Physicochemical properties
- 13.7: Applications of chitosan
- 13.8: Chitosan-based derivatives for cations sorption
- 13.9: Sorption isotherms
- 13.10: Mechanism of cations sorption
- 13.11: Conclusion
- Part 3: Focus on organic compounds, oil and oil spill compounds
- Chapter 14: Adsorption of organic compounds on activated carbons
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 14.1: Introduction
- 14.2: Preparation of activated carbons
- 14.3: Structure of activated carbon
- 14.4: Adsorption of organic compounds
- 14.5: Adsorption capacity of activated carbons
- 14.6: Conclusions
- Chapter 15: Organogels as oil sorbers for oil spill treatment
- Abstract
- 15.1: Introduction
- 15.2: Methods to prepare organogels
- 15.3: Applications of organogels in treatment of oil spill
- 15.4: Applications of organogels
- 15.5: New trends synthesis of new organogels based on green polymers
- 15.6: Conclusions
- Part 4: Focus on organic compounds: Emerging pollutants and pesticides
- Chapter 16: Sorbents for antibiotics removal
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 16.1: Introduction
- 16.2: Effectiveness of antibiotics removal using different sorbent materials
- 16.3: Current situation and perspectives of research on the matter
- 16.4: Examples of soils and low-cost sorbent materials currently studied by the authors of this chapter regarding their potential for antibiotics removal
- 16.5: Conclusions
- Chapter 17: Pesticides and removal approaches
- Abstract
- 17.1: Introduction
- 17.2: Pesticides and their negative impact
- 17.3: Pesticide retention by absorption and adsorption
- 17.4: Pesticide adsorbents and interaction with solid surfaces
- 17.5: Pesticide interaction with solid surfaces
- 17.6: Chemical elimination of pesticides from polluted waters
- 17.7: Reaction pathways in oxidative degradation of pesticides
- 17.8: Reaction pathways in catalytic oxidation of pesticides
- 17.9: Conclusion
- Chapter 18: Biopolymer-based sorbents for emerging pollutants
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- Conflict of interests
- 18.1: Introduction
- 18.2: Biosorbents for pollutants removal from wastewater
- 18.3: Natural biopolymers as sorbents obtained as waste products from the food industry
- 18.4: Other biopolymers-based sorbents
- 18.5: Biopolymer-based composite sorbents
- 18.6: Mechanism of sorption
- 18.7: Conclusions
- Part 5: Focus on radioactive elements
- Chapter 19: Application of sorption process for the removal of radioactive elements
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 19.1: Introduction
- 19.2: Effect of process parameters on radioactive elements sorption
- 19.3: Conclusions
- 19.4: Future research needs in this field
- Chapter 20: Role of clay barrier systems in the disposal of radioactive waste
- Abstract
- 20.1: Introduction
- 20.2: Global demand for radionuclides and sources of radioactive contamination
- 20.3: Application of clay minerals to the adsorption and retention of radionuclides
- 20.4: Applications of clay barrier systems
- 20.5: Summary
- Chapter 21: Vanadium(V) removal from water by sorption
- Abstract
- 21.1: Introduction
- 21.2: Vanadium sorption
- 21.3: Sorbent reusability
- 21.4: Conclusions and future research
- Part 6: Sorbents to fight air pollution
- Chapter 22: Air pollution control by using different types of techniques and sorbents
- Abstract
- 22.1: Introduction
- 22.2: Biological methods
- 22.3: Physicochemical and thermal methods
- 22.4: Sorbents used in adsorbents/absorbent techniques
- 22.5: Factors affecting the performance of sorbents
- 22.6: Conclusions
- Chapter 23: A porous hybrid material for air particulate matter reduction
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 23.1: Introduction to airborne particulate matter
- 23.2: PM absorbent materials
- 23.3: Synthesis of the SUNSPACE porous material
- 23.4: Characterization of SUNSPACE
- 23.5: Adsorption capacity of SUNSPACE
- 23.6: Sustainability of SUNSPACE
- 23.7: Air quality impact: Case study of Lombardy region
- 23.8: Survey questionnaire about social acceptance of SUNSPACE
- Chapter 24: Carbon dioxide as a main source of air pollution: Prospective and current trends to control
- Abstract
- 24.1: Air pollutants and the share of CO2 pollution
- 24.2: Current capturing strategies and technologies
- 24.3: Process intensification technologies
- 24.4: Modeling of CO2 capture
- 24.5: Carbon capture: Patents
- 24.6: Utilization of captured carbons
- 24.7: Future of CO2 capture and the main challenges
- Part 7: Sorbents to fight soil pollution
- Chapter 25: Sorbents to control soil pollution
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 25.1: Introduction
- 25.2: Role of clay minerals, metal oxides, and soil organic matter
- 25.3: Use of added sorbent materials to control soil pollution
- 25.4: Conclusions
- Chapter 26: Nanomaterials for soil remediation: Pollutant immobilization and opportunities for hybrid technologies
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 26.1: Introduction
- 26.2: Soil nanoremediation
- 26.3: Hybrid technologies
- 26.4: Conclusions
- Part 8: Conclusions
- Chapter 27: Conclusions
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 27.1: Contents in this book, and future trends
- 27.2: Conclusions
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 16, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 776
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128200421
- eBook ISBN: 9780323851848
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