The Global NEST Journal is an open access journal that publishes original research articles, short papers and critical reviews on all aspects of Environmental Science and Technology. These comprise, but are not limited to, Pollution Control Technology, Global Environmental Change, Air Quality, Water Quality, Water and Waste Water Treatment, Solid Waste Management, Hazardous Substances and Risk Analysis, Emerging pollutants. Relevant topics incorporating the methodologies and state of the art of disciplines such as Environmental Management Policies, Ecosystems and Natural Resources Management, Hydrology and Water Resources Management, Clean Energy and Sustainability are included.
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The 2024 Scopus CiteScore for the Global NEST Journal is 2.36. It is also ranked in the Q3 quartile for Environmental Science (miscellaneous).
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- H-index: 41
- SJR: 0.250 (Q3)
- SNIP score: 0.48
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Removal of Cu2+ and Zn2+ from aqueous medium using ionic polyacrylamides
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
The wastewater produced by the galvanoplasty industry is a serious environmental problem due to the high concentrations of heavy metals. In this study polymers were used in ionic flocculation to treat synthetic wastewater containing metals, applying four types of polyacrylamides with different ionic...
Experiment and Coupling Analysis of Municipal Solid Waste Degradation Under Multiple Influencing Factors
Solid Waste Management
The increase in municipal solid waste (MSW) in northwest China has been substantial, with a significant portion primarily treated in landfills. This rapid growth in waste generation presents considerable challenges for landfill management and treatment. The factors affecting MSW degradation are...
Analysis of wet acid deposition in Macau
General
Records of precipitation in Macau are collected from three local monitoring stations from 1993 to 2003. Chemical compositions of precipitation are analyzed to reveal the causes of wet deposition in Macau. The review of annual rainfall volumes and the volume weighted annual pH values over this period...
Effects of soil pH, Total Organic Carbon and texture on fate of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soils
Hazardous Substances and Risk Analysis
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a group of quotidian organic compounds having between two and six condensed aromatic rings braced in angular, cluster or linear forms possessing hydrogen and carbon atoms only. This work aims to evaluate the physicochemical characteristics of soil as...
Multivariate Statistical Analysis of pollutants in Ennore creek, South-East coast of India.
Air pollution and health
Multivariate statistical techniques involving factor analysis (FA) and dendrograms for hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) were performed on nine water samples from Ennore Creek, Chennai, Tamil Nadu to assess the spatial distribution of water quality in each of three seasons. The water samples were...
Adsorption of Remazol Brillant Green 6B (RBG 6B) on chitin: process optimization using response surface methodology
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
In the present study, the adsorption of Remazol Brillant Green 6B (RBG 6B) on chitin which characterized by BET, FTIR, XRD and SEM analysis was studied. Response surface methodology (RSM) was applied to determine interaction between solution pH, initial RBG 6B concentration and chitin dosage being...
Water Solution Polishing of Nitrate Using Potassium permanganate Modified Zeolite: Parametric experiments, kinetics and equilibrium analysis
Air pollution and health
In the present study, adsorption potential of potassium permanganate (Hypermangan) modified zeolite was investigated for the removal of nitrate from synthetic wastewater. Effects of the most significant parameters (pH, adsorbent dose, nitrate concentration and contact time) were initially evaluated...
Methylene Blue removal from aqueous solutions by activated carbon prepared from N. microphyllum (AC-NM): RSM analysis, isotherms and kinetic studies
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
This study was conducted to remove Methylene Blue (MB) from aqueous solution using activated carbon prepared from N. microphyllum (AC-NM) as a new, cheap, and non-toxic. Design of experiments based on Response Surface Methodology (RSM) conducted to investigate the effect of variables namely; initial...
Statistical analysis of trihalomethanes in treated-water tanks: seasonality, local variability and correlations
General
Chlorine was accepted as an effective disinfectant for drinking water in early 1900s. Because of chlorination, chlorine has dramatically reduced the incidence of waterborne diseases. An unwanted side effect is the formation of harmful by-products upon chlorination. The most significant group of...
Analysis of Spatial-temporal and Ion Characteristics Change of Precipitation in the Southwest of China, from Policy Perspective
Air pollution and health
According to the data from Luzhou environmental monitoring center from 2015 to 2018, the tendency of spatial-temporal and ion characteristics in precipitation have been analyzed in order to demonstrate the precipitation pollution status. Traditionally, the environment may become worse as the...
Removal of C.I.Basic yellow 2 from aqueous solution by adsorption onto granular activated carbon using an on-line spectrophotometric analysis system: Kinetic and equilibrium study
General
The adsorption of Basic yellow 2 (BY2), from aqueous solutions onto Granular activated carbon (GAC) and its adsorption kinetics at different concentrations, GAC masses, initial pH values and temperatures were studied. The adsorption process was followed by an on-line spectrophotometric analysis...
Removal of sulphide from real unhairing tannery wastewater by a sequential chemical precipitation-oxidation leaching process
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
This study investigates the effectiveness of a combined precipitation and oxidation leaching process in reducing high concentrations of sulphides in tannery effluent from the unhairing bath. First, at precipitation process the influence of operational parameters, such as stirring speeds, pH levels...
Investigation of ciprofloxacin removal from aqueous solution by nanofiltration process
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
10 mg l -1 and the permeate flux behavior during dead-end stirred-cell filtration system using six type of commercially available loose and tight NF membranes (NP010, NP030, NF90, NF270, CK3001 and DS-5DK). The rejection of CIPRO and permeate flux value were evaluated according to the effects of...
Application of Box–Behnken design for optimization of malachite green removal from aqueous solutions by modified barley straw
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
Untreated wastewater can have important effects on the environment and human. The aim of the work was to evaluate the effectiveness of modified barley straw to remove malachite green from industrial wastewater. Studied variables were pH, contact time, initial malachite green concentration, and...
Determination of the optimal conditions for the adsorption of cadmium ions and phenol on chestnut(Castanea sativa) shell
General
Adsorption of cadmium ions and phenol from aqueous solutions on chestnut (Castanea sativa) shell was studied. An incomplete 33 factorial design was applied to investigate the influence of the initial cadmium ions (20-60-100 mg l-1) or phenol concentration (0.01-0.255- 0.5 g l-1), temperature (10-25...
Optimization of process variables for treatment of food industry effluents by electrocoagulation
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
The present study investigates the process optimization for treatment of potato processing industry wastewater by electrocoagulation. Performance of treatability was evaluated by achieved chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficiencies. Response Surface Methodology was applied to determine...
Performance of granular activated carbon/nanoscale zero valent iron for removal of humic substances from aqueous solution based on Experimental Design and Response Surface Modeling
Environmental Sciences
Response surface methodology has been used to design experiments and to optimize the effect of independent variables responsible for higher adsorption of humic substances by activated carbon supported nanoscale zero-valent iron from aqueous solutions. The variables of initial concentration, time, pH...
Evaluate the effectiveness of the UV/ persulfate process to remove catechol from solution aqueous
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
Catechol is used as an antioxidant, fungicide, and polymerization inhibitors in a variety of industries such as petrochemical. Catechol must be removed from effluents before it enters to environment. This study aimed to investigate combined UV radiation and persulfate process in removal of catechol...
Biosorption, isotherm and kinetic properties of common textile dye by Phormidium animale
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
In this study, the potential textile dye biosorption capacity of a low-cost biosorbent (P. animale) was tested as functions of pH, biosorbent type, initial dye concentration, temperature, contact time and biosorbent dosage at batch scale level. The optimal conditions are 2, dried biosorbent, 93.16...
Biodecolorization of Remazol Black B using Biochar produced from Coconut Shell: Batch, Desorption, Isotherm and Kinetic Studies
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
The coconut shell-derived biochar was employed in this study to remediate Remazol Black B from aqueous solutions. For efficient dye remediation, preliminary batch investigations focused on adjusting temperature, biochar dosage, initial dye concentration, and pH. The results shown that dosage of...
Leaching of lead from clinoptilolite at acidic conditions
General
The leachability of Pb2+ from natural greek clinoptilolite was investigated according to the standard procedures TCLP/EPA/RCRA (1311), EPA Methods 1310, 1320 and DIN 38414-S4. Through SEM/EDAX analysis it was shown that lead was uniformly loaded onto the particles subjected to acid treatment...
Adsorption of cationic dye (Red 95) from aqueous solution by biosynthesized nano particle of cumnium cyminum
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
In the present work, the potential of cumnium cyminum as an effective bio adsorbent for the removal of cationic dye (Red 95) was investigated. Batch adsorption experiments were carried out to investigate the effects of adsorbent dosage, pH and contact time with initial dye concentration on...
Biodegradation of natural bitumen by Providencia stuartii isolated from heavy oil contaminated soil
Pollution Control Technology
Abundance and availability of unconventional petroleum has led to intensified exploitation and exploration of the bitumen reserves. This has however led to environmental pollution. This study investigated the ability of Providencia stuartii isolated from heavy oil polluted soil to degrade natural...
Biodecolourization and biotransformation of textile dyes remazol violet-5R and remazol brillant orange-3R by Bacillus sp. DT9 isolated from textile effluents
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
The present study aims to evaluate RV-5R and RBO-3R decolourizing potential of Bacillus sp. DT9 isolated from textile effluent in Denizli (Turkey). In present study, maximum dye-decolourizing efficiency of the culture was achieved at 25 mg l -1 concentration of RV-5R and 500 mg l -1 concentration of...
Scenedesmus regularis: An alternative biosorbent for the efficient and fast removal of methylene blue
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
This study focused on removing methylene blue (MB) from aqueous solutions using microalga Scenedesmus regularis as a biosorbent. The biomass was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM). The difference in thermal...
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