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ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2020

Potential of Chlorella vulgaris and Nannochloropsis salina for nutrient and organic matter removal from municipal wastewater reverse osmosis concentrate.

Arash Mohseni, Matthew Kube, Linhua Fan, Felicity A Roddick

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Article in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Arash MohseniWETT Research Centre, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Matthew KubeWETT Research Centre, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Linhua FanWETT Research Centre, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. linhua.fan@rmit.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8350-2310
Felicity A RoddickWETT Research Centre, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
RMIT University · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Municipal wastewater reverse osmosis concentrate (ROC) poses health and environmental risks on its disposal as it contains nutrients and harmful organic compounds at elevated concentrations. This study compared a freshwater microalga Chlorella vulgaris and a marine microalga Nannochloropsis salina in suspended and alginate-immobilised cultures for batch and semi-continuous treatment of the ROC. The immobilised algae gave comparable nutrient removal rates to the suspended cells, demonstrating immobilisation had no apparent negative impact on the photosynthetic activity of microalgae. Semi-continuous algal treatment illustrated that the microalgae could remove significant amounts of nutrients (> 50% and > 80% for TN and TP, respectively), predominantly through algal uptake (> 90%), within a short period (48 h) and generate 335-360 mg DCW L

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Chlorella vulgarisMicroalgaeBiomassFiltrationNitrogenNutrientsOsmosisWaste Disposal, FluidWastewaterNitrogenNutrientsWastewaterMicroalgaeMunicipal wastewater reclamationNutrient removalResource recoveryReverse osmosis concentrate

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PMID32382902
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