Treatment of Wastewaters with Zirconium Phosphate Based Materials: A Review on Efficient Systems for the Removal of Heavy Metal and Dye Water Pollutants

Layered zirconium phosphate (ZrP) is a versatile material with phosphate (POH ) groups able to exchange inorganic and organic cations or to intercalate basic molecules. The present review deals with the use of this material as a sorbent for heavy metal cations or dye molecules in wastewater treatmen...

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Published inMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 26; no. 8; p. 2392
Main Author Pica, Monica
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 20.04.2021
MDPI
Subjects
Adsorbents
Adsorption
Cations
Dyes
Efficiency
Heavy metals
heterogeneous photocatalysis
Inorganic materials
ion exchange
Metal ions
Metals
Phosphates
Photocatalysis
Photodegradation
Pollutants
Polymers
Review
Sorbents
Wastewater
wastewater pollutants
Wastewater treatment
Water pollution
Zirconium
zirconium phosphate
zirconium phosphate
wastewater pollutants
heterogeneous photocatalysis
ion exchange
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Summary:Layered zirconium phosphate (ZrP) is a versatile material with phosphate (POH ) groups able to exchange inorganic and organic cations or to intercalate basic molecules. The present review deals with the use of this material as a sorbent for heavy metal cations or dye molecules in wastewater treatments. The possibility to combine ZrP with polymers or other inorganic materials, in order to have suitable systems for real and large scale applications, was investigated, as well as the combination with photocatalytic materials to obtain hetrogeneous photocatalysts for the capture and photodegradation of organic dye molecules.
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ISSN:1420-3049
1420-3049
DOI:10.3390/molecules26082392