S.F.A. Shattar, N. Zakaria, K. Y. Foo
Jun 20, 2016
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Desalination and Water Treatment
Abstract
AbstractOver the years, the emergence of pesticides practice has prevailed to be the most intricate environmental turmoil amongst the scientific community. Specifically, pesticides constitute an accumulative, persistent and detrimental impact towards the survival of flora, fauna and environmental matrix. This has inspired a developing research with a variety of treatment technologies. Adsorption is recognized as the most efficient and promising approach, due to the ease of operation, simplicity of design, insensitivity to the toxic substances and superior capability for removing a broad range of pollutants. Its diverse applications, however, are retarded by the high cost of adsorbents and difficulties associated with regeneration. Montmorillonite and its derivatives, a unique group of under-utilized clay-based minerals has been proposed to be a suitable candidate for the treatment of contaminated wastewater. It plays a key role as the natural scavenger of pesticides, due to the abundantly availability, la...