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Abstract
As the world population grows, there is a growing awareness that our environment is getting more polluted. Clean water is becoming a critical issue for many parts of the world for human, animal and agricultural use. Filtration systems to clean our air and water are a growing industry. There are many approaches to removing contaminates from our water supply ranging from reverse osmosis to simple sand filters. Agricultural residues represent a low cost, renewable, available, and sustainable resource that can remove metal ions from water.
Keywords
Drinking water,
contamination,
lignocellulose,
ion exchange,
water quality management,
water pollution,
filters,
filtration,
heavy metals,
metal ions,
absorption,
adsorption,
agricultural wastes,
utilization,
plant fibers,
lignocellulose fibers,
trace metals
Citation
Rowell, Roger M. 2006. Removal of metal ions from contaminated water using agricultural residues. ECOWOOD 2006 : 2nd International Conference on Environmentally-Compatible Forest Products, Fernando Pessoa University, Oporto, Portugal, 20-22 September 2006. [S.l. : s.n.], 2006: pages 241-250.
