Waste-Based Zeolites and their Advanced Composites for Wastewater and Environmental Remediation Applications

The drinking waterWater crisis has shaped into a major threat for the humanHuman race nowadays due to heavy and unwanted wastage of waterWater for different purposes. To overcome such issues, the treatmentTreatment of wastewaterWastewater through several techniques for removing unwanted pollutantsPollutant has proved to be beneficial. AdsorptionAdsorption being an efficient technique utilizes a physicalPhysical and chemicalChemical process to remove harmful metal ionsMetal ions, anions, and chemical pollutantsChemical pollutants from the wastewaterWastewater. Various synthetic and natural adsorbentsAdsorbent were utilized by researchers for studying the adsorptionAdsorption process. ZeoliteZeolite nowadays has been explored as a very eminent material for carrying out adsorptionAdsorption studies for wastewater treatmentWastewater treatment. This chapter discusses the preparation techniques of zeolite by both conventional and advanced techniques. The utilization of various industrialIndustrial wasteWaste sources for preparing zeoliteZeolite has been mainly focused on in this chapter. Moreover, the synthesisSynthesis of various advanced zeolite-based compositesComposite is described along with their specific utilization toward environmental remediationEnvironmental remediation applicationsApplication. This chapter also points out the recent advancements and future scope of advanced zeoliteZeolite composite materialsComposite materials which can prove to be more efficient in remediationRemediation-based applicationsApplication.