Chicgoua Noubactepa,b

Improving the sustainability of granular iron / pumice systems for water 1 treatment

Metallic iron for water treatment: Healing a research community

Despite two decades of intensive research on using metallic iron (Fe) for environmental remediation and water treatment, basic concerns about their efficiency still prevail. This communication presents the basic idea of the view that challenges the prevailing paradigm on the operating mode of Fe/H2O systems. The alternative paradigm is in tune with the mainstream science on aqueous iron corrosi...

Effect of pumice and sand on the sustainability of granular iron beds for the aqueous removal of Cu, Ni, and Zn

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Effect of pumice and sand on the sustainability of granular iron beds for the aqueous removal of Cu, Ni, and Zn Stefania Bilardi, Paolo S. Calabrò, Sabine Caré, Nicola Moraci, Chicgoua Noubactep Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, MECMAT, Mechanics and Materials Department, Faculty of Engineering, Via Graziella, loc. Feo di Vito, 89...

Metallic iron for water treatment: A critical revie

Water treatment with metallic iron (Fe) is still based on the premise that Fe 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 as a pre-requisite ...

Metallic Iron for Water Treatment: Lost Science in the West

Voltaire (1694-1778), the French philosopher said: “There are many ways to waste own time: Doing nothing, doing the wrong thing, doing the good thing at the wrong time” (own translation). The situation is quite different if the time is robbed by someone else or even by a professional mistake. There is a clear evidence that researchers on metallic iron (Fe0 termed as zero-valent iron) for water ...