Phosphorus removal from secondary wastewater effluent using copper smelter slag.

Moatlhodi Wise Letshwenyo, Thandie Veronicah Sima

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Article in Heliyon, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

Fabrication of magnetic manganese ferrite-loaded sugar cane bagasse/peanut peel biochar adsorbents for the adsorptive removal of phosphorus from aqueous solution.Scientific reports · 2025
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Engineering properties as a supplement cementitious material of ground copper reduction slag extracted valuable metal from Cu slag.Heliyon · 2024
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Column adsorption of biological oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand and total organic carbon from wastewater by magnetite nanoparticles-zeolite A composite.Heliyon · 2023
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Using Iron Tailings for Phosphate Removal in Cemented Phosphogypsum (PG) Backfill.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Moatlhodi Wise LetshwenyoBotswana International University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Engineerimg and Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Private Bag 16, Palapye, Botswana.

Thandie Veronicah SimaBotswana International University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Engineerimg and Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Private Bag 16, Palapye, Botswana.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study investigated the use of copper smelter slag for the removal of phosphorus from secondary wastewater effluent through batch tests. The media was physically and chemically characterized and showed presence of Fe

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Agricultural scienceBiot numberBoyd modelChemical engineeringChemisorptionCivil engineeringCopper smelter slagEnvironmental engineeringEnvironmental scienceIntraparticle diffusionPseudo second orderRegeneration

Identifiers

PMID32577557

DOI10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04134

PMCPMC7303565

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