Affiliation:
1. NCE, Department of Science and Technology Government of Bihar India
2. Corrosion Research Laboratory, Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering and Technology Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh 202002 India
3. Interdisciplinary Research Center for Advanced Materials King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Dhahran 31261 Saudi Arabia
4. Dirección de Investigación y Soluciones Tecnológicas, Centro de Innovación Aplicado en Tecnologías Competitivas Omega 201, Leon Guanajuato 37545 Mexico orodriguez@ciatec.mx
Abstract
Since the beginning of this century, one of the biggest issues has been the growing concern about the conservation of natural resources. Along with the rise in global population, there has been a corresponding rise in garbage production, which has contaminated the environment more. Lately, activated carbon (AC) with better-evolved porosities has been used for the adsorption of environmental contaminants. When pollutants such as medicinal drugs, dyes, mercury, cadmium, lead, and chromium enter water streams, they are regarded as dangerous contaminants because they may affect both people and other living things. Water treatment, removal of organic and inorganic pollutants from the environment, cleaning up of oil spills, gas storage, the pharmaceutical industry, and environmental decontamination techniques are just a few of the numerous applications for AC. This chapter's objective is to concentrate on the environmental applications of AC using a literature review as support.
Publisher
The Royal Society of Chemistry