Environmental Detoxification Using Carbonaceous Composites

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Environmental Detoxification Using Carbonaceous Composites

P. Senthil Kumar, A. Saravanan

For decades there has been expanding worldwide worry for the general wellbeing impacted by environmental pollution. The arrival of chemical contaminations into the earth introduces a huge swath of issues related with public health. Carbonaceous composites have been broadly considered for all sorts of contaminants expulsion from wastewater because of its phenomenal and tunable properties. The present and potential utilizations of carbon based materials in wastewater treatment incorporate adsorption, photo catalysis, sanitization and membrane separation. The carbonaceous materials such as activated carbons, carbon nanofibers and carbon nanotubes for the most part managed high extraction effectiveness, great selectivity in complex networks and toughness for continuous adsorption/desorption cycles, basically because of high surface territory, compound security, dispersibility in wastewater and, significantly, multi-sort communication.

Keywords
Environmental Pollution, Carbonaceous Composites, Carbon Nanofibers, Carbon Nanotubes, Water Treatment

Published online 11/20/2018, 26 pages

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21741/9781945291975-8

Part of the book on Carbonaceous Composite Materials

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