Review Article
Utility Potential of Parthenium hysterophorus for Its Strategic Management
Table 2
Bioadsorption of pollutants by Parthenium hysterophorus weed.
| S. number | Adsorbed pollutant | Adsorbent | References |
| 1 | Leather dye-acid blue 92 | Parthenium leaves ash | [127] | 2 | Chloride (30–34% reduction at low level of pollution) | Parthenium dried biomass | [128] | 3 | Safranin dye (rapid removal in 40 min) | Parthenium biomass | [129] | 4 | Cd (II) ions (99.7% achieved adsorption efficiency; 82% recovery by desorption) | Parthenium biomass | [130]
| 5 | Cr (VI) (endothermic adsorption @ 63.97%) | Parthenium ash | [131] | 6 | p-Cresol | Activated carbon (prepared at high temp. using H2SO4) | [132] | 7 | Nickel (II) (exothermic adsorption) | Parthenium ash | [116] | 8 | Rhodamine-B | Formaldehyde treated Parthenium biomass (more efficient) and phosphoric acid treated Parthenium carbon | [133] | 9 (a) (b) (c) (d) | Malachite green Methylene blue Phenol Hg | Activated carbon from Parthenium | [134] [135] |
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