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ReviewEnvironmental science and pollution research international2020

Review of manufacturing three-dimensional-printed membranes for water treatment.

Merlin N Issac, Balasubramanian Kandasubramanian

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Review 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 8 papers.

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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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Treatment technologies for bakers' yeast production wastewater.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022
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  8. A review of 3D printing techniques for environmental applications.Current opinion in chemical engineering · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Merlin N IssacCIPET: Institute of Plastics Technology (IPT), HIL Colony, Edayar Road, Pathalam, Eloor, Udyogamandal P.O, Kochi, Kerala, 683501, India.
Balasubramanian KandasubramanianDepartment of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DU), Girinagar, Pune, Maharashtra, 411025, India. meetkbs@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4257-8807

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the exacerbation of industrialization, water treatment has become a necessary step for the eradication of dyes, heavy metals, oils, pharmaceuticals, and illicit drugs. These pollutants pose an impending threat to the health of humans by causing chronic or acute poisoning. Albeit they are noxious, the presence of some metals in lower concentrations is indispensable for human health. 3D printing (additive manufacturing) (3DP) can contrive nearly any complicated geometric form in a wide array of objects among various scales by a layer-wise method of manufacturing, which is more indubitably designed than any other conventional method. 3DP could remodel the existing patterns of membrane housing and possibly trim down the power demand and chemical use in saltwater desalinating and wastewater purification plants. Membranes that are 3D printed with correctly arranged apertures and shapes enhance material transport and flow athwart the surface of the membrane and at once lessen membrane soiling. This kind of technology forges membranes of polymers, biopolymers, alloys, metals, and ceramics via computer-aided design (CAD). A polylactic acid porous super-hydrophobic membrane with pore size in the range 40-600 μm showed 99.4% oil-water separating power and 60 kL h

Indexed as

Water PurificationCeramicsComputer-Aided DesignHumansPrinting, Three-DimensionalWastewaterWastewaterToxic pollutants, 3D printing, Additive manufacturing, 3D printed membranes, Polylactic acid, Separation efficiency

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