Evidence map›Paper›PMID 38076140›Full record

ArticleHeliyon2023

A chemical remediation technique for a nearly-total removal of arsenic and mercury from contaminated marine sediments.

Fabio D'Agostino, Antonio Bellante, Maria Bonsignore, Marianna Del Core, Laura Clarizia, Nadia Sabatino, Luigi Giaramita, Giorgio Tranchida, Salvatore Chiavarini, Mario Sprovieri

Open access · goldAbstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Heliyon, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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

10 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Fabio D'AgostinoInstitute for Anthropic Impacts and Sustainability in the Marine Environment, National Research Council (IAS-CNR), via del Mare n. 3, 91021 Torretta Granitola (Trapani), Italy.
Antonio BellanteInstitute for Anthropic Impacts and Sustainability in the Marine Environment, National Research Council (IAS-CNR), via del Mare n. 3, 91021 Torretta Granitola (Trapani), Italy.
Maria BonsignoreInstitute for Anthropic Impacts and Sustainability in the Marine Environment, National Research Council (IAS-CNR), via del Mare n. 3, 91021 Torretta Granitola (Trapani), Italy.
Marianna Del CoreInstitute for Anthropic Impacts and Sustainability in the Marine Environment, National Research Council (IAS-CNR), via del Mare n. 3, 91021 Torretta Granitola (Trapani), Italy.
Laura ClariziaDepartment of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering (DICMaPI), University of Naples Federico II, Piazzale V. Tecchio 80, Naples, 80125, Italy.
Nadia SabatinoInstitute for Anthropic Impacts and Sustainability in the Marine Environment, National Research Council (IAS-CNR), via del Mare n. 3, 91021 Torretta Granitola (Trapani), Italy.
Luigi GiaramitaInstitute for Anthropic Impacts and Sustainability in the Marine Environment, National Research Council (IAS-CNR), via del Mare n. 3, 91021 Torretta Granitola (Trapani), Italy.
Giorgio TranchidaInstitute for Anthropic Impacts and Sustainability in the Marine Environment, National Research Council (IAS-CNR), via del Mare n. 3, 91021 Torretta Granitola (Trapani), Italy.
Salvatore ChiavariniENEA Casaccia Research Centre, Department for Sustainability, Via Anguillarese 301, Roma, 00123, Italy.
Mario SprovieriInstitute of Marine Sciences, National Research Council of Italy (ISMAR-CNR), Arsenale-Tesa 104, Castello 2737/F, Venice, 30122, Italy.
Institute for Coastal Marine Environment · ITIstituto di Scienze Marine del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche · ITNational Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development · ITUniversity of Naples Federico II · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

After decades of industrial exploitation of the coast and consequent contamination of the sites and marine sediments, it became essential to recover the marine ecosystem by remediation methods to remove toxic contaminants. In this work, a remediation method was developed to clean marine sediments contaminated by arsenic (As) and mercury (Hg). The method can be applied to mobile platforms and is based on an environmentally friendly approach designed to minimise further contamination. The method was tested on two artificially contaminated sediments and two real samples collected from two highly contaminated sites in southern Italy, Augusta Bay and Bagnoli Gulf, characterised by high Hg and As concentrations, respectively. The method consists of four steps: washing with sodium hydroxide (NaOH) to remove metals associated with humic acid; Fenton-reaction using α-CycloDextrin (aCD) to stabilise Fe(II) at natural pH and oxidise As (III) and Hg (0 or I); complexation reaction with aCD; and complexation with sodium sulfide (Na

Indexed as

mercury and arsenic removalRe-usageSediment/soil washing for remediationSulfides treatmentWaste

Identifiers

PMID38076140
PMCPMC10709057
OpenAlexW4388808977

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.