INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYTOREMEDIATION, cilt.25, sa.7, ss.832-839, 2023 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
NOVELTY STATEMENT Pyrolysis is among the disposal methods applied to reduce the impact of agricultural and animal wastes on the environment and human health and to ensure their management. Biochars are widely used alternative adsorbent for the removal of pollutants from wastewater. No published work has been on the walnut shell biochar (WSB) encapsulated alginate hydrogel bead for the phenol adsorption from an aqueous solution. The novelty of this study was to compare the adsorption capacity, and removal efficiencies of calcium alginate-commercial activated carbon composite beads (CA-AC) and calcium alginate-biochar composite beads (CA-WSB) prepared from walnut shells by pyrolysis and investigated the adsorption performance for phenol removal.