Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 160, Issue -, Pages 57-66Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2013.12.037
Keywords
Heavy metals; Biosorption; Low cost biosorbent; Lignocellulosic wastes
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Biosorption on lignocellulosic wastes and by-products has been identified as a proper alternative to the existing technologies applied for toxic metal ion and dye removal from wastewater streams. This paper deals with utilization of typical low cost wastes and by-products produced in different food agricultural and agro-industries as biosorbent and reviews the current state of studies on a wide variety of cheap biosorbents in natural and modified forms. The efficiency of each biosorbent has been also discussed with respect to the operating conditions (e.g. temperature, hydraulic residence time, initial metal concentration, biosorbent particle size and its dosage), chemical modification on sorption capacity and preparation methods, as well as thermodynamics and kinetics. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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