Environmentally Friendly Adsorption Materials (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 3001
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Dear Colleagues,
The development of industry, constant urbanization, and an increasingly consumptive lifestyle, contribute to increasing the emission of gaseous and liquid pollutants and generating huge amounts of solid waste. The former poses a very serious threat to the atmosphere, surface and ground waters, and soil. Solid waste, on the other hand, is a problem because it requires landfilling, which is associated with the constant increase in the landfill area. For this reason, increasing attention is being paid to the development of all kinds of solutions to effectively reduce the amount of waste going to landfills. One of the ways to dispose of industrial and post-agricultural waste is currently their reuse. The materials obtained in this way can be successfully used in many branches of modern industry, as well as in environmental protection, among others, for the purification of waste gases and post-production wastewater, or for the remediation of contaminated soil. At the same time, energy-saving activities have been a key aspect recently. In this context, a new approach to environmental protection issues has been so-called "green chemistry", the principles of which are guidelines for reducing the consumption of raw materials and energy, reducing waste and generally reducing production costs. The idea is to eliminate processes that generate environmentally harmful organic substances, as well as to save reagents and energy. An excellent alternative to this type of solution is the production of waste materials from the biomass industry (pine cones), agriculture (wheat bran, straw) and in the household (coffee, tea grounds) to obtain valuable carbon adsorbents the perspective of their use in cleaning processes water from various types of pollutants, using adsorption and photocatalytic processes.
Prof. Dr. Ewa Skwarek
Dr. Agnieszka Gładysz-Płaska
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biosorbents
- biochar
- natural polymers
- biodegradable sorbents
- green sorbents
- recycling
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