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Foreword

I am extremely pleased to provide the foreword to a book on biosorption that deals with the fundamentals, advancements, and future possibilities of this exciting technology. Biosorption employs the ability of biomass to adsorb different contaminants through various physicochemical mechanisms. A wide variety of biosorbents of different origins have been recognized to have high sorption capacity toward various contaminants. Biosorption mechanisms have been explored by scientists to obtain a basic understanding of the process. Nevertheless, biosorption has seldom been used for real industrial applications. The reasons are many and include lack of experimentation on real industrial effluents, multi‐component studies, and surface functionalization. Thus, a thorough compilation of the biosorption literature and a solid understanding of the biosorption technology’s essentials, progress, and potential are needed. This book, Biosorption for Wastewater Contaminants, offers the complete package.

The book comprises 14 chapters contributed by various experts in the field. Each chapter is edited carefully to provide the required information for a thorough understanding of different aspects of biosorption technology. I congratulate the editors and other contributors of this book for providing us with a complete guide to biosorption for the welfare of the research community.

Dr. K. Vijayaraghavan

Senior Scientist

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

National University of Singapore, Singapore