Remediation of Selenium Contaminated Wastewater

van Hullebusch, Eric D.

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Selenium (Se) is a naturally occurring, semi-metallic trace element (Se; atomic number 34) that was discovered 200 years ago by the Swedish chemists Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779–1848) and Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745–1818).

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Department of Environmental Engineering and Water Technology, IHE Delft Institue for Water Education, P.O. Box 3015, 2601 DA, Delft, The Netherlands
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van Hullebusch, E.D. (2018). Remediation of Selenium Contaminated Wastewater. In: Kallel, A., Ksibi, M., Ben Dhia, H., Khélifi, N. (eds) Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions. EMCEI 2017. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70548-4_8

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