Chapter 5
Removal of Priority Water Pollutants Using
Adsorption and Oxidation Process
Combined with Sustainable Energy
Production
Sheen Mers Sathianesan Vimala, Omar Francisco González-Vázquez,
Ma. del Rosario Moreno-Virgen, Sathish-Kumar Kamaraj,
Sheem Mers Sathianesan Vimala, Virginia Hernández-Montoya, and
Rigoberto Tovar-Gómez
Abstract Water pollution and sustainable energy production are the two major
concerns in the current scenario. The total freshwater content of the earth is less
than 1% part of which is polluted with organic and inorganic debris from industries.
Energy production is another issue which arises due to the depletion of fossil fuels
and hence the need for finding an alternate source of sustainable energy is in
demand. Both of these issues can be resolved concurrently using the integrated
adsorption or oxidation based microbial fuel cells. Such integrated systems are
highly advantageous especially when recalcitrant pollutants are present in the
water ecosystem. In a nutshell, this chapter deals with the list of priority organic
and inorganic pollutants in water ecosystem, the available adsorption and oxidation
techniques for the disintegration of organic water pollutants, specific systems formed
by combined oxidation and adsorption techniques, integration of pollutant removal
with sustainable energy-producing systems and the advances in integrated
S. M. Sathianesan Vimala
Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India
O. F. González-Vázquez · M. d. R. Moreno-Virgen (*) · V. Hernández-Montoya
R. Tovar-Gómez
Instituto Tecnológico de Aguascalientes (ITA), Tecnológico Nacional de México (TecNM),
Aguascalientes, Mexico
S.-K. Kamaraj (*)
Instituto Tecnológico El Llano Aguascalientes (ITEL), Tecnológico Nacional de México
(TecNM), Aguascalientes, Mexico
e-mail: sathish.k@llano.tecnm.mx; sathish.bot@gmail.com
S. M. Sathianesan Vimala
Department of Basic Engineering, Government Polytechnic College, Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu,
India
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
S. Rajendran et al. (eds.), Metal, Metal-Oxides and Metal-Organic Frameworks for
Environmental Remediation, Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World 64,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68976-6_5
117
Removal of Priority Water Pollutants Using
Adsorption and Oxidation Process
Combined with Sustainable Energy
Production
Sheen Mers Sathianesan Vimala, Omar Francisco González-Vázquez,
Ma. del Rosario Moreno-Virgen, Sathish-Kumar Kamaraj,
Sheem Mers Sathianesan Vimala, Virginia Hernández-Montoya, and
Rigoberto Tovar-Gómez
Abstract Water pollution and sustainable energy production are the two major
concerns in the current scenario. The total freshwater content of the earth is less
than 1% part of which is polluted with organic and inorganic debris from industries.
Energy production is another issue which arises due to the depletion of fossil fuels
and hence the need for finding an alternate source of sustainable energy is in
demand. Both of these issues can be resolved concurrently using the integrated
adsorption or oxidation based microbial fuel cells. Such integrated systems are
highly advantageous especially when recalcitrant pollutants are present in the
water ecosystem. In a nutshell, this chapter deals with the list of priority organic
and inorganic pollutants in water ecosystem, the available adsorption and oxidation
techniques for the disintegration of organic water pollutants, specific systems formed
by combined oxidation and adsorption techniques, integration of pollutant removal
with sustainable energy-producing systems and the advances in integrated
S. M. Sathianesan Vimala
Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India
O. F. González-Vázquez · M. d. R. Moreno-Virgen (*) · V. Hernández-Montoya
R. Tovar-Gómez
Instituto Tecnológico de Aguascalientes (ITA), Tecnológico Nacional de México (TecNM),
Aguascalientes, Mexico
S.-K. Kamaraj (*)
Instituto Tecnológico El Llano Aguascalientes (ITEL), Tecnológico Nacional de México
(TecNM), Aguascalientes, Mexico
e-mail: sathish.k@llano.tecnm.mx; sathish.bot@gmail.com
S. M. Sathianesan Vimala
Department of Basic Engineering, Government Polytechnic College, Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu,
India
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
S. Rajendran et al. (eds.), Metal, Metal-Oxides and Metal-Organic Frameworks for
Environmental Remediation, Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World 64,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68976-6_5
117