Meet the editor

Associate Professor Dr. Serpil Edebali was born in Konya, Turkey, in 1977. She received her BS degree at the Food Engineering Department of METU in Ankara. Her MSc and PhD degrees were received at the Chemical Engineering Department of Selcuk University in Konya in 2004 and 2010, respectively. From 2002 to 2013, she was a research assistant at the Chemical Engineering Department of Selcuk University. Since 2013, she

has been assistant professor and is now working as associate professor doctor in the chemical technologies section of the same department. She gives lectures in the subjects of heat transfer and fluid mechanics. Her research interests include wastewater treatment, removal of heavy metals and dyes, synthesis of nanoparticles and applications, separation processes, especially sorption with resins and membranes, as well as membrane-adsorption hybrid systems. She has duties as a researcher in various COST and FP7, Erasmus+ as well as H2020 projects.

**Preface III**

**Section 1 1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Section 2 27**

**Chapter 2 29**

**Chapter 3 41**

**Chapter 4 63**

**Chapter 5 87** Effect of Biochar Amendments on the Sorption and Desorption Herbicides in

**Chapter 6 105**

Mechanisms Involved during Sorption of Ionisable and Non-Ionisable Herbicides

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*by Kassio Ferreira Mendes, Ananias Francisco Dias Júnior, Vanessa Takeshita,* 

Impact of Physical/Chemical Properties of Volcanic Ash-Derived Soils on

*by Lizethly Caceres Jensen, Jorge Rodriguez Becerra and Mauricio Escudey*

Calcium Uptake on Kaolinite and Gibbsite: Effects of Sulfate, pH, and Salt Concentration with Additional Insight from Second Harmonic Generation on Temperature Dependencies with Sapphire-Basal Planes and the Potential Relevance

Biopolymer-Based Materials from Polysaccharides: Properties, Processing,

*by Rohan S. Dassanayake, Sanjit Acharya and Noureddine Abidi*

*by Augustine Muwamba, Kelly T. Morgan and Peter Nkedi-Kizza*

*by Ahmed Abdelmonem, Yujun Wang, Johannes Lützenkirchen* 

*Ana Paula Justiniano Régo and Valdemar Luiz Tornisielo*

Sorption Processes for the Removal of Various Pollutants

Natural Sorbents

Contents

to Ice Nucleation

*and Marcelo Eduardo Alves*

*and Márcio Antônio Fiori*

Agricultural Soil

Photocatalytic Adsorbents Nanoparticles

Characterization and Sorption Applications

Sorption of Phosphorus from Fertilizer Mixture
