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Green technology approach for heavy metal adsorption by agricultural and food industry solid wastes as bio-adsorbents: a review

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Heavy metal discharge from various metallurgical industries has been of particular concern in India over the last few decades. Similarly, management and disposal of wastes that are generated out of agricultural commodities processing is a huge task for processors. The researchers have been focusing on a new process for remediation of heavy metals, among which biosorption is an emerging technology. Adsorption using agricultural and food industry wastes (AFW) has shown a greater absorption rate than the conventional system due to the presence of the functional groups. In addition, these reported AFW exhibited better adsorption efficiency when modified with acid, alkaline, and other chemical solvents. In this context, utilization of agricultural and food waste as bio-sorbent could simultaneously benefit both water treatment and waste management. This review seeking to address the possibilities of using biosorption as green technological approach for removal of heavy metals and also focuses on various parameters that are required to use AFW as an efficient system for biosorption. However, commercialization and implementation of this process in industrial scale is necessary for successfully utilizing AFW as low-cost adsorbents.

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AKC thanks the Management of Mangalore Jesuits Educational Society (MJES) and Principal, St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Mangaluru for the constant encouragement to publish the work.

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  1. Department of Postgraduate Studies and Research in Food Science, St. Aloysius College (Autonomous), Mangaluru, Karnataka, 575 003, India

    Sherin Mathew, Jovita Carrol Soans, R. Rachitha, M. S. Shilpalekha & Ashok Kumar Chakka

  2. Postgraduate Department of Microbiology, Maharanis Science College for Women, Mysore, Karnataka, 570005, India

    Siddegowda Gopalapura Shivanne Gowda

  3. College of Horticulture Engineering and Food Technology, University of Horticulture Sciences, Bagalkote, India

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Mathew, S., Soans, J.C., Rachitha, R. et al. Green technology approach for heavy metal adsorption by agricultural and food industry solid wastes as bio-adsorbents: a review. J Food Sci Technol 60, 1923–1932 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13197-022-05486-1

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