Our method is powerful to avoid pollution and prevent voluminous hydroxide sludge.
This method is efficient to treat copper containing wastewater up to 10 g/L.
Copper is recovered as zero-valent Cu and/or Cu-(Fe-)oxide nanoparticles.
Precipitated nanoparticles are characterized by XRD, FTIR, SEM, TEM and VFTB.
High ratios of copper in the residues enable an economic and ecologic recovery.