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Cost-Effective Adsorbents for Reduction of Conventional and Emerging Pollutants in Modified Natural Wastewater Treatment

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The adsorption process has drawn significant academic interest as an efficient treatment method for controlling water pollution and it has exhibited considerable potential for removing different aquatic pollutants. This chapter reviews the literature on different types of adsorption processes, adsorption mechanisms, various factors affecting adsorption, important operating parameters, desorption, and reactivation. The chapter provides a summary of adsorption models and scale-up considerations and represents an extensive list of cost-effective adsorbents along with their application in wastewater treatment. Finally, it ends with a list of recent researches of various modification methods applied to increasing the efficiency of adsorption processes and enhancing the capacity of adsorbents.

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The authors would like to acknowledge Islamic Azad University Rasht branch, Iran, for their valuable guidance, encouragement, and tremendous support.

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran

    Omid Alizadeh

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

    Donya Hamidi

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Alizadeh, O., Hamidi, D. (2022). Cost-Effective Adsorbents for Reduction of Conventional and Emerging Pollutants in Modified Natural Wastewater Treatment. In: Nasr, M., Negm, A.M. (eds) Cost-efficient Wastewater Treatment Technologies. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 117. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2022_865

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