Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40603323›Full record

ArticleScientific reports2025

Production and characterization of magnetic Biochar derived from pyrolysis of waste areca nut husk for removal of methylene blue dye from wastewater.

Syeda Minnat Chistie, Sneha Ullhas Naik, Pragathi Rajendra, Apeksha, Ranjeet Kumar Mishra, Gadah Albasher, Sampath Chinnam, Gautham P Jeppu, Zeenat Arif, Javaria Hameed

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. HRSC advances · 2026
    Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. 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.

Syeda Minnat ChistieDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Ramaiah Institute of Technology Bangalore, Karnataka, 560054, India.
Sneha Ullhas NaikDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Ramaiah Institute of Technology Bangalore, Karnataka, 560054, India.
Pragathi RajendraDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Ramaiah Institute of Technology Bangalore, Karnataka, 560054, India.
ApekshaDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Ramaiah Institute of Technology Bangalore, Karnataka, 560054, India.
Ranjeet Kumar MishraDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, 576104, Karnataka, India. ranjeet.mishra@manipal.edu.
Gadah AlbasherDepartment of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Sampath ChinnamDepartment of Chemistry, Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, 560054, Karnataka, India.
Gautham P JeppuDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, 576104, Karnataka, India. gautham.jeppu@manipal.edu.
Zeenat ArifChemical Engineering Department, Harcourt Butler Technical University, Kanpur, 208002, India.
Javaria HameedDepartment of Building Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, H3G1M8, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The textile industry causes lots of pollution due to its discharge of untreated coloured effluents into water bodies, impacting the environment. The present study includes a slow pyrolysis technique to produce magnetic biochar derived from waste areca nut husk (ANH)) biomass to adsorb methylene blue dye. The biochar and biomass were characterised via proximate analysis, ultimate analysis, bulk density, heating value, extractive content, biochemical analysis, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), SEM, BET surface area, pH, water holding capacity (WHC) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). A semi-batch reactor was used to produce biochar (ANHB) at 600 and 800

Indexed as

CharcoalMethylene BlueNutsWastewaterWater Pollutants, ChemicalAdsorptionColoring AgentsPyrolysisSpectroscopy, Fourier Transform InfraredWater PurificationbiocharCharcoalColoring AgentsMethylene BlueWastewaterWater Pollutants, ChemicalAdsorptionBiomassCharacterisationMagnetic BiocharPyrolysisWastewater

Identifiers

PMID40603323
PMCPMC12223213

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.