7Table 7.1 Reported maximum biosorption capacities for different adsorbents ...Table 7.2 The Langmuir separation factor.Table 7.3 Comparison of maximum biosorption capacities and kinetic rate con...8 Chapter 8Table 8.1 Comparison of batch and continuous flow operations.Table 8.2 Biosorptive removal of contaminants or pollutants from wastewater...Table 8.3 Column biosorption models.
9 Chapter 9Table 9.1 Factors affecting the morphology and structure of electrospun nan...
10 Chapter 10Table 10.1 Improved procedures for removal of costly metals.Table 10.2 Conventional methods for recovery of precious metals.Table 10.3 Biomaterials employed as biosorbents.Table 10.4 Processes and techniques for the improvement of precious metals
11 Chapter 11Table 11.1 Chemical characteristics of the rare earth elements.Table 11.2 Commercial and full names of solvents used for REE recovery.
12 Chapter 12Table 12.1 Biosorption of heavy metals by various microbial masses.Table 12.2 Intracellular sequestration of metals by various microbes.Table 12.3 Bioleaching of heavy metals with bioremediation agents.Table 12.4 Advances in multi‐metal removal by various biosorbents.Table 12.5 Kinetic models and their expressions.Table 12.6 Adsorption isotherms and their expressions.Table 12.7 Thermodynamic expressions for Gibbs free energy change.
13 Chapter 13Table 13.1 Industries and Cr (VI) concentrations in their effluents.Table 13.2 Biosorption capacity of biosorbents derived from algal, fungal, ...Table 13.3 Microorganisms and their Cr (VI) efficiency.
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 Main industries dealing with dyes.Figure 1.2 Prontosil and its reduction products.
2 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 Structure of some synthetic dye molecules.Figure 4.2 Proposed mechanism for bioadsorbents and bioadsorbates.
3 Chapter 6Figure 6.1 Fourier transforms infrared spectroscopy.Figure 6.2 Scanning electron microscope attached to anenergy dispersive spec...Figure 6.3 X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy.Figure 6.4 X‐ray diffraction analysis.Figure 6.5 Brunauer–Emmett–Teller Analyzer.Figure 6.6 Thermo‐gravimetric analyzer.
4 Chapter 8Figure 8.1 Illustration of MTZ movement along the length of the column, show...
5 Chapter 9Figure 9.1 Schematic diagram of the electrospinning setup.Figure 9.2 (a) Digital photo of gelatin/PVA composite nanofiber band loaded ...Figure 9.3 General mechanisms of heavy metal removal using biosorbents.Figure 9.4 Schematic diagram illustrating the fabrication of sandwich‐struct...Figure 9.5 (a, b) Scanning electron microscope images of synthesized nanomat...
6 Chapter 11Figure 11.1 Applications of REEs.Figure 11.2 Scheme of adsorption and desorption phenomena.Figure 11.3 Flowchart strategy for REE biosorption recovery.
7 Chapter 12Figure 12.1 Schematic of biosorption and mechanisms for recovery and regener...
8 Chapter 13Figure 13.1 Schematic diagram of the permissible limit of Cr in drinking wat...Figure 13.2 Schematic diagram of the toxic effect of hexavalent chromium ion...Figure 13.3 Physicochemical and biological methods applicable for decontamin...Figure 13.4 Schematic representation of biomass processing.Figure 13.5 Mechanism of hexavalent chromium biosorption by non‐living biolo...Figure 13.6 Schematic mechanism of Cr (VI) interaction with living microorga...Figure 13.7 Microbial reduction mechanism of Cr (VI). Chromate reductase (Ch...
Guide
5 Preface
6 Foreword
9 Index
10 Wiley End User License Agreement
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