Adsorption Performance Assessment of Agro-Waste-Based Biochar for the Removal of Emerging Pollutants from Municipal WWTP Effluent
Dragana Lukić, Vesna Vasić, Jelena Živančev, Igor Antić, Sanja Panić, Mirjana Petronijević, Nataša Đurišić-Mladenović, Marek Kosmulski · 2025
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Dragana Lukić and co-authors test biochar made from waste raspberry biomass as a cleaner for treated wastewater. Treatment plants are a main source of new pollutants, since they were not built to remove small organic traces well. Powdered activated carbon works, but it costs a lot and has its own footprint.
The biochar removed nearly all drugs and pesticides found in the plant effluent, except clarithromycin, propranolol and linuron. Water pH from six to eight had little effect, uptake was fast, and the biochar still worked through three reuse cycles. Powdered carbon did somewhat better, which the team links to its larger surface area.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Dragana Lukić, Vesna Vasić, Jelena Živančev, Igor Antić, Sanja Panić, Mirjana Petronijević, Nataša Đurišić-Mladenović, Marek Kosmulski |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 72 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |