Meet the editors

Dr George Z. Kyzas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the International Hellenic University (IHU). He was born in Drama (Greece) and studied Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). He obtained his BSc, MSc, and PhD from the Department of Chemistry (AUTh) specializing in Chemical Technology and Materials Science. He then worked as a PostDoc

Researcher in the Department of Chemistry (AUTh) on many research projects, while at the same time he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology (Greece). He was then officially assigned as Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry (International Hellenic University), being the Head of the Department. His research interests include the synthesis of various nanomaterials (inorganic, aluminates, polymers, graphenes, agro-food residues, etc.) for the treatment of wastewaters (dyes, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, phenols, oil-spills, etc). His scientific work has been published in more than 110 papers in international journals with a high impact factor (IF, ave 4.3). He has published 8 books, 36 chapters in scientific books, and 1 patent. He has also acted 7 times as Guest Editor for special issues of journals and has more than 80 presentation in international conferences. His work is widely recognized with over 5,000 citations based on Scopus database (h-index 42). He has been awarded with scholarships from the Research Committee of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2009, 2013), the State Scholarship Foundation (2013), and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (2016). He has also participated in about 20 research projects as a researcher. He is a reviewer in more than 200 scientific journals and participates as an assessor in Greek and European research projects.

Prof. Nikolaos K. Lazaridis was born in Thessaloniki (Greece) and obtained his BSc (1979) and PhD (1991) degrees from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), where today he is Professor of the Laboratory of General & Inorganic Chemical Technology of School of Chemistry. He teaches transport phenomena and has vast industrial experience. He has authored numerous scientific articles, mainly on wastewater treatment.

His scientific work has been published in more than 90 papers in international journals with a high impact factor. His work is widely recognized with over 4,500 citations based on Scopus database (h-index 40). He has also participated in about 20 research projects as a researcher. He is a reviewer in many scientific journals.

Contents

Malgorzata Seczkowska

by Samuel Kwesi Asomaning

by Yıldırım İsmail Tosun

by Aman D. Sharma

Hydroxides for CO2 Adsorption

Chenggong Sun and Collins Snape

Recovery by Column Sorption Runs

Njungab, André Talla and Nkeng George Elambo

Glyphosate Mobility Are Connected Problems

Power Plants

Preface III

Chapter 1 1

Chapter 2 25

Chapter 3 45

Chapter 4 61

Chapter 5 81

Chapter 6 105

Chapter 7 123

Influence of Pesticide Properties on Adsorption Capacity and Rate

Sorption Capacities of a Lignin-Based Electrospun Nanofibrous Material for Pharmaceutical Residues Remediation in Water by Alexandre Camiré, Bruno Chabot and André Lajeunesse

Processes and Factors Affecting Phosphorus Sorption in Soils

Microwave Radiated Sorption-Hazardous Emission Control by Popped Borax and Salted Pumice for Coal Combustion in Thermal

Treatment of Agro-Food Wastewaters and Valuable Compounds

by Jacques Romain Njimou, Fridolin Kouatchie Njeutcha, Emmanuel

Glyphosate Resistance of Chloris virgata Weed in Australia and

Hybrid Two-step Preparation of Nanosized MgAl Layered Double

by Xiani Huang, Xiaogang Yang, Guang Li, Collins I. Ezeh,

on Activated Carbon from Aqueous Solution

by Magdalena Blachnio, Anna Derylo-Marczewska and
