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Plants Extracts as Coagulants-Flocculants for Wastewater Treatment: A Short Review

Authors : Bouthaina Othmani, Moncef Khadhraoui

Published in: Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The intensive use of chemicals reagents in wastewater coagulation-flocculation process is believed to cause serious environmental and health problems to nowadays societies. This conventional treatment technique has to be either substituted or improved in terms of coagulants and flocculants nature.

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Title: Plants Extracts as Coagulants-Flocculants for Wastewater Treatment: A Short Review
Authors: Bouthaina Othmani
Moncef Khadhraoui
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-70547-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-70548-4

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70548-4_355