“…Thus, the removal of this element from different environments is of a practical necessity. In aqueous media, cobalt is normally found as cobalt(II) or Co 2+ , and the treatment of solutions containing it, included, as recent literature shows, ion exchange, adsorption, solvent extraction and liquid membranes processing (Ashtari and Pourghahramani, 2018;Bozecka et al, 2018;Devi et al, 2018;Farag et al, 2018;Hayati et al, 2018;Kara et al, 2018;Ma et al, 2018;Omelchuk and Chagnes, 2018;Song et al, 2018;Vafaei et al, 2018;Xavier et al, 2018;Yuan et al, 2018;Zherebtsov et al, 2018;Anirudhan et al, 2019;Rodriguez et al, 2019).…”