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Research on the removal of pollutants from water environment by lanthanum modified montmorillonite
Water and Wastewater Treatment
The management of water pollution has been one of the main problems as people pay more and more attention in the current society to the preservation and repair of the natural environment. In this paper, natural montmorillonite was modified with starch as well as lanthanum chloride. The removal...
Removal of ammonia by clinoptilolite
General
The important advantage of zeolite applied to water treatment is its high porosity when comparing to other minerals. The porosity results in good hydrodynamic properties (the increase in the pressure loss on the zeolite filters is 1.5-2.0 times smaller than in the case of sand filters) and...
Ammonia and Phosphorous removal in municipal wastewater treatment plant with extended aeration.
General
Samples were taken from Metamorphosis/Attica combined treatment plant for municipal wastewater and septage, which treats about 12000 m3 d-1 of municipal wastewater and 8000 m3 d-1 of septage, and analyzed for solids, COD, ammonia, nitrate, orthophosphate, polyphosphate and total phosphorus. Ammonia...
Screening on the sorption of emerging contaminants to polystyrene and polyethylene and use of coagulation – flocculation process for microplastics’ removal
Microplastics in water treatment: fate, toxicity assessment and removal technologies
In this study, preliminary experiments were conducted to investigate the sorption potential of different organic micropollutants to polystyrene and polyethylene and to examine the removal efficiency of these microplastics during coagulation experiments with iron and manganese coagulants. For the...
Ammonia and COD Removal From Landfill Leachate Using MAP Precipitation Method
Water and Wastewater Treatment
Most of the major cities in our country are opposed to the problem of water pollution due to the uncontrolled leachate resulting from the decomposition of solid wastes in irregular landfills. The waste waters that have high nitrogen content such as leachate cause various problems like eutrophication...
Pollutant removal from mining processing wastewater by electrochemical method
Discharging wastewater from industries without any treatment causes environmental pollution and endangers biotic life. In this study, pollutant removal by electrocoagulation (EC) process was investigated using wastewater of the ore processing plant (magnesite crushing and screening plant). In the EC...
Boron Removal from Synthetic Hydraulic Fracturing Wastewaters by Hybrid Nanofiltration/Complexation Process
Water and Wastewater Treatment
The primary purpose of this study is to investigate boron removal from synthetic hydraulic fracturing wastewater by membrane processes. The effects of pressure, pH, feed concentration, and polyol concentration on boron removal were determined using a cross-flow, flat-sheet membrane test unit. The...
Highly efficient Cr(VI) removal by cationic covalent organic framework
Water treatment
Developing an efficient sorbent for removing the highly toxic Cr(VI) is very important, which tackles the threat of Cr(VI) pollution to ecological environment and human health. Herein, a cationic covalent organic framework bearing cationic guanidine (named TATGCl) was synthesized from...
Potential of the Alfalfa (Medicago Sativa( Rhizobium Bacteria for Nitrate and Phosphate Removal from the Sugarcane Industry Wastewater
Water and Wastewater Treatment
To conduct this experiment, rhizospheric bacteria were isolated from the root nodules of alfalfa plants (Medicago sativa) in the Khuzestan province during the spring season. For the molecular identification of superior isolates, DNA extraction and expression of 16S rDNA were performed. To...
Removal of Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) Using a Membrane Bioreactor (MBR): a short review
General
Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), such as pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) and as endocrine disrupting compounds, have recently recognized as the next set of pollutants due to their toxic effects on human health and aquatic organisms at very low concentrations. One of...
Antidepressants in urban wastewater treatment plant: occurrence, removal and risk assessment
Hazardous Substances and Risk Analysis
In this study, an analytical methods for determination of antidepressants including (diazepam (DZP), lorazepam (LZP), carbamazepine (CBZ), fluoxetine (FLU)) was developed. The concentration of antidepressants was monitored in Konya Urban Wastewater Treatment Plant influent and effluent samples for...
Simultaneous removal of COD and color from municipal landfill leachate using Ozone/Zinc Sulphate oxidation process
Solid Waste Management
Municipal landfill leachate generated from aged sites requires an efficient treatment to minimize the high level of refractory organic matters prior to final discharge. In the current study, the performance of combined ozonation and Zinc sulfate (ZnSO4) for anaerobic stabilized leachate treatment...
Response surface methodological approach for optimizing removal of ciprofloxacin from aqueous solution using thermally activated persulfate/aeration systems
Water and Wastewater Treatment
Being used in large quantities for some decades, antibiotics have been of little notice since their existence in the environment. Present study aims at investigating the optimization of Ciprofloxacin removal (CIP) in Thermally Activated Persulfate (TAP)/Aeration systems by Central Composite Design...
Effects of Ferric Salt of Different Forms on Phosphorus Removal
CLEANWAS
This paper has studied phosphorus removal effects of ferric chloride (ionic state), polyferric chloride (polymer state) and ferric hydroxide (gel state) on the effluent of a municipal sewage treatment plant. The total phosphorus (TP) in the effluent was 1.74 mg·L-1. Results showed that ferric...
Application of free and immobilized laccase for removal and detoxification of fluoroquinolones from aqueous solution
Water and Wastewater Treatment
Laccase from Trametes versicolor was immobilized by covalent bonds formation on CPC silica carriers. Elimination of two floroqinolone (FQ); enrofloxacine (ENR) and flumequine (FLU) using laccase in both free and immobilized form in the absence and presence of 1-hydroxybenzotriazole (HBT) and 4...
Olive Mill Wastewater (OMW) Treatment by Using Ferric Oxide Dephenolization and Chemical Oxygen Demand Removal
Water and Wastewater Treatment
In Jordan and as in many other Mediterranean countries olive oil production is one of the major agricultural production, it is estimated that the annual production of olive oil in Jordan approximately 21.5 thousand tons per year. O the other hand the process of olive oil extraction generates around...
Use of ion exchange for removal of Ammonium: A biological regeneration of zeolite
General
Nitrogen in the Ammonia form can have deleterious effects in water resources. Ion Exchange by zeolite and biological Nitrification processes are two proposed methods for removing Nitrogen compounds from wastewater and effluents. The main objective of this research was to investigate the efficiency...
Quick start-up of Mudanjiang wastewater treatment plant and factors influencing phosphorous removal
General
Successful start-up of a full-scale wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) is a key issue for the succeeding operation of WWTP on the one hand and the nutritious phosphorus removal is of great concern on the other. After the construction of Mudanjiang WWTP with a flow rate of 100,000 m3 d-1 in...
Thermally treated aluminium waste-filings, a low cost and efficient adsorbent for phosphorus removal from water
Water and Wastewater Treatment
A facile strategy toward modification of aluminium filings (AF), a waste material from aluminium manufacturing industry, into a highly efficient adsorbent was examined. AF was simply treated with thermal modification to form a cheap adsorbent for Phosphorus (P) removal from aqueous solutions. The...
Removal of Cu2+ and Zn2+ from aqueous medium using ionic polyacrylamides
Water and Wastewater Treatment
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...
Sustainable surfactant removal and wastewater reuse in carwash systems using natural zeolite
Water and Wastewater Treatment
Jordan is the world’s second water-poorest country. Treating and reusing of wastewater are significantly important at the national level. This research aims to investigate the use of natural and modified Zeolite for the removal of Methylene Blue Active Substances (MBAS) and lead (Pb), major...
Study of Removal of Direct Black ANBN dye from Aqueous Solution by Chitosan-Functionalized Mesoporous (SBA-15) Composites Synthesized by Electrospinning Method
Water and Wastewater Treatment
In this research, capability of adsorption of modified chitosan Nano composites with functionalized mesoporous silica which synthesized by electrospinning method in the removal of direct black ANBN dye has been studied. Silicate mesoporous were functionalized during synthesis process and then the...
Removal of dyes from aqueous solutions by adsortion on mixtures of fly ash in batch and column techniques
General
Adsorption and removal of commercial dyes were studied in aqueous suspensions of fly ash mixtures with a sandy clay loam soil of low organic matter content. The commercial dyes, acid orange 7, acid yellow 23, disperse blue 79, basic yellow 28 and direct yellow 28 represent the widely used nitroazo...
Kinetics Study of The Ability of Compost Material for Removing 〖Cu〗^(2+) from Wastewater
Solid Waste Management
The objective of this study is to examine the ability of a compost material for removing {Cu}^{2+} from aqueous solutions with different parameters using continuous fixed-bed column. Compost was characterized by using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy which revealed that the metal binding is...
Ozone pre-oxidation of a textile industry wastewater for acute toxicity removal
General
In this work, pre-ozonation for degradation, decolourization and detoxicifying of a raw textile wastewater collected in a textile fininshing industry, Istanbul (Turkey) is investigated. Differing from the previous studies, a low ozone (O3) flow rate (9.6 mg min-1) was applied at original pH of the...
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