Natural and Synthetic Polymers for Pollutant Adsorption from Contaminated Effluents
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Circular and Green Sustainable Polymer Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 October 2024) | Viewed by 2978
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Interests: adsorption; biopolymers; optimization; modeling; environmental engineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the use of adsorption to remove pollutants from industrial effluents has become more common due to its various benefits, including good applicability, simplicity, flexibility, selectivity and high efficiency, the variety of adsorbent materials available and the technique’s relatively low cost. Another major advantage of the method is the fact that the adsorption process can be easily optimized and modelled. As a result, research has been focused on finding new adsorbents with higher adsorption capacities, as well as making the adsorption process as economically viable as possible. Polymeric materials, both natural and synthetic, often have the functional groups necessary to make them ideal for pollutant removal from liquid or gaseous industrial effluents.
This Special Issue of Polymers has been created to compile and present current research on pollutant adsorption using natural and synthetic polymer materials.
Dr. Giannin Mosoarca
Dr. Simona Popa
Dr. Cosmin Vancea
Dr. Sorina Boran
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pollutants removal
- polymers
- synthesis
- characterization
- process mechanism
- equilibrium
- kinetics
- thermodynamics
- process modelling
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