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Paper Title

Potential of nanocellulose for wastewater treatment

Keywords

  • Wastewater Management
  • Nanocellulose
  • Adsorbents
  • Membrane Technologies
  • Water Treatment
  • Dyes Removal
  • Heavy Metals Adsorption
  • Pollutant Binding
  • Nanocellulose Membranes
  • Filtration Technologies
  • Microbial Contaminants
  • Surface Modification
  • Hydrophilic Properties
  • Hydrophobic Properties
  • Porosity
  • Durability
  • Sustainable Water Treatment
  • Green Technologies
  • Environmental Remediation
  • Nanomaterials
  • Cleaner Technologies
  • Industrial Wastewater
  • Adsorption Efficiency
  • Separation Effectiveness
  • Novel Adsorbents
  • Commercial Scale Application

Article Type

Research Article

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Issue

Volume : 281 | Page No : 130738

Published On

October, 2021

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Abstract

Wastewater management has significant interest worldwide to establish viable treatment techniques to ensure the availability of clean water. The specialities of nanocellulose for this particular application is due to their high aspect ratio and accessibility of plenty of –OH groups for binding with dyes, heavy metals and other pollutants. This review aggregates the application of nanocellulose for wastewater treatment particularly as adsorbents of dyes and heavy metals, and also as membranes for filtering various other contaminants including microbes. The membrane technologies are proven to be effective relating to their durability and separation effectiveness. The commercial scale application of nanocellulose based materials in water treatment processes depend on various factors like routes of synthesis, surface modifications, hydrophilic/hydrophobic, porosity, durability etc. The recent developments on production of novel adsorbents or membranes encourage the implementation of nanocellulose based cleaner technologies for wastewater treatment.

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