About the Authors

K. Shahzad

Contributed equally to this work with: K. Shahzad, A. S. Nizami, M. Sagir, M. Rehan, S. Maier, M. Z. Khan, O. K. M. Ouda, I. M. I. Ismail, A. O. BaFail

shahzadkhu@gmail.com

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Environmental Studies (CEES), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

A. S. Nizami

Contributed equally to this work with: K. Shahzad, A. S. Nizami, M. Sagir, M. Rehan, S. Maier, M. Z. Khan, O. K. M. Ouda, I. M. I. Ismail, A. O. BaFail

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Environmental Studies (CEES), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

M. Sagir

Contributed equally to this work with: K. Shahzad, A. S. Nizami, M. Sagir, M. Rehan, S. Maier, M. Z. Khan, O. K. M. Ouda, I. M. I. Ismail, A. O. BaFail

Affiliation Chemical Engineering Department, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Pakistan

M. Rehan

Contributed equally to this work with: K. Shahzad, A. S. Nizami, M. Sagir, M. Rehan, S. Maier, M. Z. Khan, O. K. M. Ouda, I. M. I. Ismail, A. O. BaFail

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Environmental Studies (CEES), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

S. Maier

Contributed equally to this work with: K. Shahzad, A. S. Nizami, M. Sagir, M. Rehan, S. Maier, M. Z. Khan, O. K. M. Ouda, I. M. I. Ismail, A. O. BaFail

Affiliation Institute for Process and Particle Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

M. Z. Khan

Contributed equally to this work with: K. Shahzad, A. S. Nizami, M. Sagir, M. Rehan, S. Maier, M. Z. Khan, O. K. M. Ouda, I. M. I. Ismail, A. O. BaFail

Affiliation Environmental Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

O. K. M. Ouda

Contributed equally to this work with: K. Shahzad, A. S. Nizami, M. Sagir, M. Rehan, S. Maier, M. Z. Khan, O. K. M. Ouda, I. M. I. Ismail, A. O. BaFail

Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, Prince Mohamed Bin Fahd University, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia

I. M. I. Ismail

Contributed equally to this work with: K. Shahzad, A. S. Nizami, M. Sagir, M. Rehan, S. Maier, M. Z. Khan, O. K. M. Ouda, I. M. I. Ismail, A. O. BaFail

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Environmental Studies (CEES), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

A. O. BaFail

Contributed equally to this work with: K. Shahzad, A. S. Nizami, M. Sagir, M. Rehan, S. Maier, M. Z. Khan, O. K. M. Ouda, I. M. I. Ismail, A. O. BaFail

Affiliation Department of Industrial Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Data curation: MZK. Investigation: MR. Methodology: SM. Project administration: AOB. Resources: OKMO. Supervision: IMII. Writing – original draft: KS. Writing – review & editing: ASN MS.