Recent trends in agro-waste based activated carbons for the removal of emerging textile pollutants

ABSTRACT

Textile effluents (TE) represent a major source of water pollution and cause serious health complications globally. Therefore, it is timely requires to develop suitable, cost-effective, and efficient management systems for effluent treatment. This review aims at agro-industrial waste to produce a promising adsorbing material to remove dyes from effluent. The adsorption method emerges to be economically more attractive due to its low-cost, high efficiency, and eco-friendly method for the removal of textile dyes from effluents. Here, globally a large volume of wastes generated from agro-industries its accumulation makes a severe ecological impact. These wastes contain a large amount of lignocellulosic content and can be used as the production of eco-friendly activated carbon. This review highlights activated carbon (AC) production from agro-waste and potential applications in textiles effluent treatment and minimises the aquatic pollutions, waste to wealth approach.

KEYWORDS:

• Activated carbon
• agro-industrial waste
• bio-adsorbents
• textile synthetic dyes
• textile wastewater treatment

Acknowledgments

The author wish to thank the Department of Biotechnology, Mahendra Arts and Science College (Autonomous), Kalippatti, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, India.

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