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The use of date palm as a potential adsorbent for wastewater treatment: a review

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Background

In tropical countries, the palm tree is one of the most abundant and important trees. Date palm is a principal fruit grown in many regions of the world. It is abundant, locally available and effective material that could be used as an adsorbent for the removal of different pollutants from aqueous solution.

Review

This article presents a review on the role of date palm as adsorbents in the removal of unwanted materials such as acid and basic dyes, heavy metals, and phenolic compounds. Many studies on adsorption properties of various low cost adsorbent, such as agricultural waste and activated carbons based on agricultural waste have been reported in recent years.

Conclusion

Studies have shown that date palm-based adsorbents are the most promising adsorbents for removing unwanted materials. No previous review is available where researchers can get an overview of the adsorption capacities of date palm-based adsorbent used for the adsorption of different pollutants. This review provides the recent literature demonstrating the usefulness of date palm biomass-based adsorbents in the adsorption of various pollutants.

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The authors acknowledge the research grant provided by the Universiti Sains Malaysia under the Short-Term Grant Scheme (Project No. 304/PTEKIND/639062) and Research University (RU) (project no. 1001/PTEKIND/814048).

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    Tanweer Ahmad, Mohammad Danish, Mohammad Rafatullah, Arniza Ghazali, Othman Sulaiman & Rokiah Hashim

  2. School of Chemical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800, Penang, Malaysia

    Mohamad Nasir Mohamad Ibrahim

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Ahmad, T., Danish, M., Rafatullah, M. et al. The use of date palm as a potential adsorbent for wastewater treatment: a review. Environ Sci Pollut Res 19, 1464–1484 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-011-0709-8

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