“…However, drinking water treatment residuals disposal remains one of the most urgent issues today. Several studies have given significant importance to the use of these waste materials in several different applications such as cement production (Dahhou, Barbach, & Moussaouiti, 2019; Dahhou, Moussaouiti, Arshad, Moustahsine, & Assafi, 2017; Rodríguez et al, 2010), ceramics production (Benlalla, Elmoussaouiti, Dahhou, & Assafi, 2015; Mymrin et al, 2017), application in agriculture (Fan, He, Ma, Yang, & Stoffella, 2014), and reuse as a coagulant (Ahmad, Ahmad, Ahad, & Alam, 2016; Sadri Moghaddam, Alavi Moghaddam, & Arami, 2010), adsorbent of organic pollutants (Fragoso & Duarte, 2012; Nawar et al, 2015; Rashed, El‐Daim El Taher, & Fadlalla, 2016), or heavy metal (Abo‐El‐Enein, Shebl, & Abo El‐Dahab, 2017; Cardoso et al, 2019; Siswoyo et al, 2019) in wastewater treatment.…”