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fact that little effort has been made to carry out a cost comparison between
conventional and non-conventional adsorbents. This aspect needs to be
investigated further to promote large-scale use of non-conventional adsor-
bents. Perhaps one reason why non-conventional adsorbents have not
been widely used in industry in Europe is the lack of knowledge about
the engineering of such materials. I think that, for novel adsorbents to
be accepted by industry, it will be necessary to adopt a multidisciplinary
approach in which chemists, biologists, microbiologists, polymerists and
engineers work together [6].
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