Metallic Iron for Water Treatment: A Critical Review
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Water treatment with metallic iron (Fe 0) is still based on the premise that Fe 0 is a reducing agent. An alternative concept stipulates that contaminants are removed by adsorption, co‐precipitation, and size‐exclusion in a reactive filtration process. This article underlines the universal validity of the alternative concept. It is shown that admixing non‐expansive material to Fe 0 as a pre‐requisite for sustainable Fe 0‐based filtration systems. Fe 0‐based filters are demonstrated an affordable, appropriate, and efficient decentralized water treatment technology.
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Removal of arsenic using zero valent iron has been widely explored by several research groups both in the laboratory and in the field.
“In the last decade, removal of As using zero valent iron (ZVI) or Fe(0) for removal of As has been widely explored by several research groups both in the laboratory [142, 186, 187] and in the field [188–192].”
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- Authors
- Noubactep, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Göttingen (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Noubactep, Chicgoua
- ORCID
- Noubactep, Chicgoua
- Venue
- CLEAN – Soil, Air, Water
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2013-03-04
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 702-710
- ISSN
- 1863-0650 (ISSN-L)
- 1863-0669
- OpenAlex
- W1992416247
- Cited by
- 76
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 6.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- Locations
- CLEAN - Soil Air Water (publishedVersion)
- Geo-Leo e-docs (Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Geo-Leo e-docs (Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nd)
- GoeScholar The Publication Server of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- GRO (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- FID-GEO SUB
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Environmental remediation with nanomaterials
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Water Treatment and Disinfection
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Coagulation and Flocculation Studies
- Keywords
- metallic iron, water treatment, adsorption, co-precipitation, size exclusion, reducing agents, decentralized water treatment, pollutant removal
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