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ArticleACS environmental Au2026

DeSelenator: A Se-Removal Process for Environmental Decontamination of Wastewaters from Coal-Burning Power Plants.

Jeffrey D Einkauf, Zhuoyi Zeng, Ziheng Shen, Pimphan Aye Meyer, Dia̅na Stamberga, Jonathan Willocks, Maggie Gilliland, Michelle Cagley, Sotira Yiacoumi, Costas Tsouris and 1 more

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Article in ACS environmental Au, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Jeffrey D EinkaufChemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6403-4301
Zhuoyi ZengSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States.
Ziheng ShenSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6429-5897
Pimphan Aye MeyerManufacturing Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States.
Dia̅na StambergaChemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6336-3402
Jonathan WillocksManufacturing Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States.
Maggie GillilandTennessee Valley Authority, Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402, United States.
Michelle CagleyTennessee Valley Authority, Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402, United States.
Sotira YiacoumiSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5827-6050
Costas TsourisSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0522-1027
Radu CustelceanChemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0727-7972

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Abstract

Selenium may become a toxic contaminant of freshwater systems when released into the environment through industrial wastewaters from mining, coal-burning power plants, or oil refining. Efficient and cost-effective Se-removal technologies are therefore necessary to reduce Se concentrations in these wastewaters to below the regulatory discharge limits. In this study, we have demonstrated an effective process that removes Se, mostly as selenate anions, from wastewaters generated by coal-burning power plants. This process, dubbed DeSelenator, leverages the high concentration of sulfate relative to selenate in the wastewater and the propensity of these oxyanions to cocrystallize with benzene-bis-iminoguanidinium (BBIG) cations into extremely insoluble salts (on par with BaSO

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crystal engineeringiminoguanidinesoxyanionsselenatesulfate

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PMCPMC12828613

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