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ReviewRSC advances2023

Natural-based coagulants/flocculants as sustainable market-valued products for industrial wastewater treatment: a review of recent developments.

Ahmad K Badawi, Reda S Salama, Mohamed Mokhtar M Mostafa

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Review in RSC advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  19. New porous amine-functionalized biochar-based desiccated coconut waste as efficient COEnvironmental science and pollution research international · 2024
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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

3 authors.

Ahmad K BadawiCivil Engineering Department, El-Madina Higher Institute for Engineering and Technology Giza 12588 Egypt dr.ahmedkaram91@gmail.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2075-653X
Reda S SalamaBasic Science Department, Faculty of Engineering, Delta University for Science and Technology Gamasa Egypt reda.salama@deltauniv.edu.eg dr.reda.salama@gmail.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9593-9456
Mohamed Mokhtar M MostafaChemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University P.O. Box 80203 Jeddah 21589 Saudi Arabia mmoustafa@kau.edu.sa mmokhtar2000@yahoo.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0594-7207

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Industrial wastewater is categorized as a voracious consumer of fresh water and a high-strength source of pollution. Coagulation-flocculation is a simple and cost-effective technique for removing organic/inorganic compounds and colloidal particles from industrial effluents. Despite the outstanding natural properties, biodegradability, and efficacy of natural coagulants/flocculants (NC/Fs) in industrial wastewater treatment, their significant potential to remediate such effluents is underappreciated, particularly in commercial scale applications. Most reviews on NC/Fs focused on the possible application of plant-based sources such as plant seeds, tannin, certain vegetables/fruit peels, and their lab-scale potential. Our review expands the scope by examining the feasibility of using natural materials from other sources for industrial effluent decontamination. By analyzing the latest data on NC/Fs, we identify the most promising preparation techniques for making these materials stable enough to compete with traditional options in the marketplace. An interesting presentation of the results of various recent studies has also been highlighted and discussed. Additionally, we highlight the recent success of using magnetic-natural coagulants/flocculants (M-NC/Fs) in treating diverse industrial effluents, and discuss the potential for reprocessing spent materials as a renewable resource. The review also offers different concepts for suggested large-scale treatment systems used by MN-CFs.

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PMID37377880
PMCPMC10291875

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