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ArticleMembranes2021

Study the Use of Activated Carbon and Bone Char on the Performance of Gravity Sand-Bag Water Filter.

Eric Fung, Ken I Johnson, Wenqi Li, William Borges, Kai Chi, Sunil K Sharma, Yogita Madan, Priyanka R Sharma, Benjamin S Hsiao

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Article in Membranes, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Eric FungDepartment of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, NY 11794-3400, USA.
Ken I JohnsonDepartment of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, NY 11794-3400, USA.
Wenqi LiDepartment of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, NY 11794-3400, USA.
William BorgesDepartment of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, NY 11794-3400, USA.
Kai ChiDepartment of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, NY 11794-3400, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3396-8061
Sunil K SharmaDepartment of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, NY 11794-3400, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6543-8789
Yogita MadanDepartment of Chemistry, Amity School of Applied Sciences, Jaipur 303002, India.
Priyanka R SharmaDepartment of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, NY 11794-3400, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7290-4936
Benjamin S HsiaoDepartment of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, NY 11794-3400, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3180-1826
Stony Brook University · US

Funding

National Science Foundation DMR-1808690
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, granulated activated charcoal (GAC) and bio charcoal (BC) is used as a filler in P3 biosand bag filter to study their filtration performance against a range of fluoride impurities from 1-1400 mg/L. A set of experiments are done to analyze the filtration efficiency of the sandbag filter against fluoride impurities after incorporating different amounts (e.g., 0.2, 2 kg) and a combination of GAC and BC. A combination of filler GAC and BC (1 kg each) have exhibited excellent results with 100% fluoride removal efficiency against 5 mg/L fluoride impurities for an entire experimental time of 165 min. It is because of the synergetic effect of adsorption caused by the high surface area (739 m

Indexed as

adsorptionbio charcoalbiosand filtergranulated activated charcoalLangmuir Isotherm

Identifiers

PMID34832097
PMCPMC8621261
OpenAlexW3211490709

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