“…Zeolite has an excellent ion exchange capacity, and its cation exchange ranking is Cs + > Rb + > K + > NH 4 + > Sr + > Na + > Ca 2+ > Fe 3+ [10,11]. Its mineral framework comprises many openings, internal voids, or channels, which are beneficial to trap and bind ammonium [12]. Comparing with other adsorbents for ammonium removal, for example, clay minerals, activated carbon, exfoliated vermiculites, fly ash, peats, chitosan beads, wood sawdust, bentonite, attapulgite, oxide nanoparticles, and zero-valent iron, with disadvantages of complex preparation, high cost, or challenging for low concentration of ammonium removal, natural zeolite has great advantages, being of low cost and easy to obtain, having a high cationic exchange property, and is environment friendly, which allows zeolite as a particular attractive cation exchanger and absorbent to capture ammonium from wastewater [13].…”