Ahsan Maqbool

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• PhD
• Researcher at Spanish National Research Council

Urban soil accumulates significant contents of heavy metals (HMs), which is a risk to human health and considered as a hindrance for the development and expansion of concerned areas that required to be having simple and field applicable remediation mechanisms with diverse applicable concerning location. A magnetic nanocomposite is fabricated by sph...

Microplastic particles are an emerging pollutant that can be transported through preferential pathways, such as macropores. Agricultural soils, prone to microplastic contamination, often have macroporosity due to biological activity, natural formation of soil aggregates, desiccation cracks, or no‐till practices. However, little is known about the f...

Soil is polluted with plastic waste from macro to submicron level. Our understanding of macroplastics (> 5 mm) occurrence and behavior has remained comparatively elusive, mainly due to a lack of a tracing mechanism. This study set up a methodology to trace macroplastic displacement, which combined magnetic iron oxide-tagged soil and macroplastic pi...

Plastic pollution in terrestrial environments is a global issue due to its adverse effects on soil health, with negative impacts on ecosystem services and food production. However, the enormous heterogeneity of both plastic and soil characteristics complicate the assessment of the impact and overall trends in plastic-induced changes in soil propert...

This study represents one of the first attempts towards bisphenol A (BPA) degradation by Trametes Versicolor laccase immobilized on Ba-alginate beads. The effect of input variables including temperature (20-40 oC), BPA concentration (2-10 mg/L) and time (10-90 min) were studied using Box-Behnken design (BBD) and artificial neural network (ANN). The...

Microplastic concentration is increasing in the terrestrial environments from primary to secondary sources, leading to concern about their impact on soil-plant water uptake and subsurface water storage. However, the impact of microplastic at the pore-scale level remains elusive, making it difficult to explain the in-silico behavior of soil water. P...

Soil is polluted with plastic waste from macro to submicron level, and research has intensified on the fate and transport of plastic with more focused particulate plastic, including fibers (<5mm). Yet, our understanding of macroplastic (>5mm) occurrence and behavior has remained comparatively elusive, mainly due to a lack of tracing mechanism. This...

Microplastics (5mm) enter the soil in several ways, including directly through the purposeful use ofplastic (e.g., in plastic mulch, greenhouses, or coated items) or inadvertently through the additionof sewage sludge, compost, or irrigation water that has been polluted with plastic. The effect ofmicroplastic on plant growth, soil biota, and soil ph...

Coal mining and other allied industries like coal-fired power plants are substantial sources of atmospheric dust, aerosol formation and heavy metal(loid)s (HMs) transportation that pose environmental pollution and potential health risks to residents. While understanding of the seasonal variation of atmospheric emissions helps to plan public health...

Irrigated agriculture is a foremost consumer of water resources to fulfill the demand for food and fiber with an increasing population under climate changes; cotton is no exception. Depleting groundwater recharge and water productivity is critical for the sustainable cotton crop yield peculiarly in the semiarid region. This study investigated the w...

The present work investigated the immobilization of laccase (Trametes versicolor) on Cu-alginate beads by entrapment method and its utilization to degrade bisphenol A (BPA) in aqueous medium. The immobilized laccase demonstrated higher storage stability as compared to free enzyme. Box-Behnken experimental design was used (BBD) to optimize the immob...

Phosphate-lanthanum coated sewage sludge biochar improved the soil properties and growth of ryegrass in an alkaline soil

The regulatory framework of heavy metal pollution associated with electronic waste is prevalent all over the world. As a result of technological advancement and change in consumer patterns, the life span of electrical and electronic products has been shortened. This has contributed to the emergence of massive amounts of electronic waste that needs...

Groundwater is considered as the primary source of urban water supply in major cities of the world. Rapid industrial development and increase in population have deteriorated the quality of groundwater of Faisalabad, Pakistan. The overexploitation of groundwater caused depletion of groundwater level, and evaluation of groundwater status has become c...

The inequity of water allocation in the Indus Basin by the rotational method has created conflicts of interest leading to water scarcity for irrigated agricultural land. The arid region of the basin is affected the most, which demands a new inventive way of managing water resources. Geo-informatics maps of the Bahawalnagar canal circle were prepare...

Lead pollution contributes 2% to environmental health and is found in air, dust, soil, and water. The presence of lead on the urban surface can put at risk human health and hinder sustainable urban development. The existing strategies are not feasible to remediate lead from the urban surface due to heavy infrastructure, long-term monitoring, and le...

Water pollution and water scarcity is considered worldwide as a severe problem. It has motivated researchers to develop more effective wastewater treatment techniques for their reuse. Many governmental agencies are cataloging the increase of complex metals and compounds in industrial wastewater because of their toxicity and tenacity. Traditional ex...

Urban environment has contaminated by heavy metals that has posing risks to human health and considered as a prominent cause to sustainable cities and societies [1]. The dust has settled in urban surface which includes roadsides, grounds, residential areas, commercial district, educational and theme park and other outdoor spaces where human has dir...

In-situ remediation approach of soil contaminated with potentially toxic metal(loid)s (PTMs) has been a major environmental challenge for decades, and escalating with industrialization development which is considered as hindrance of socioeconomic development. Nevertheless, cost and time-effective, and sustainable in-situ remediation technologies re...

Air pollution is continuously increasing severe health problems in all over the world conscientious for copious diseases and deaths. Extensive economic growth, especially in urban areas of China, has led to escalating episodes of severe air pollution. In the past few decades, continuous industrialization and urbanization in China improved the livin...

Mineral production is the mainstay of the global economy. Pakistan has huge mineral resources potential, but the contribution of minerals to the gross domestic product is not commensurate with its potential. The main reasons for the unregulated nature of the mining sector are poor organizational structure, inadequate implementation of legislation,...

Coal mining and related industry can increase heavy metals (HMs) concentrations in soil, atmosphere and wheat, thereby posing metal-associated human health risk via food ingestion. In this study, 58 samples of soil, wheat, and dust were collected from Xuzhou coal mine eastern China, six kinds of HMs Pb, Cd, Cu, Zn, As and Cr were studied for their...

ABSTRACT: Soil, taken from lake bottom and river bed, the selective sources of top soil construction in land reclamation, need to be improved with their properties in general. Biochar can be used to improve some soil quality. In this research, produced five different kinds of straw biochar at corresponding pyrolysis temperatures respectively and us...