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Exploring the Effects of Organic Carbon and Nitrogen on Biomass and Lipid Synthesis in Brackish Water Cyanobacteria: A Study on Sustainable Biofuel Production

by Jambulingam Ranjitha Sivaraman Chandhinipriya

Hydrology and Water Resources Management

This work is mainly focused on the enhancement of biomass and lipid productivity of the cyanobacterial strains isolated from seawater to produce biodiesel. Initially, Seawater was collected, cultured, and analyzed to isolate cyanobacterial strains. The isolated cyanobacterial species were analyzed...

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Upregulate Soil Health and Wheat Yield: Conversion of Organic Waste into Bio-activated Zn-Enriched Compost for Deficient Soils

by Naeem Muhammad Iqbal Zafar Hussain Azhar Jamil Moazzam Ahmad Hafiz Tanvir Ismail Ahmed Mahmoud El-Mogy Mohamed El Ganainy Sherif El-Beltagi Hossam Hadid Maha Loutfi

Solid Waste Management

Soil zinc (Zn) deficiency is a major constraint limiting wheat productivity and nutritional quality, particularly in degraded agricultural lands. Sustainable organic waste management through composting presents an eco-friendly approach to enhancing soil health while mitigating environmental...

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Enhancement of Advanced Oxidation Processes in Oil Refinery Wastewater Treatment Using Deep Neural Networks

by Dhivakar Manikandan Velusamy Karthik

Issue 5

Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

The complex composition of persistent and resistant contaminants in oil refinery wastewater presents a significant environmental challenge that conventional treatment methods frequently fail to effectively address. Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs), specifically the photo-Fenton method, and a deep...

Advanced oxidation process (AOPs). Deep learning +4 more
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Removal of gaseous ammonia released from leachate by adsorption on carbon-based adsorbents prepared from agro-industrial wastes

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Manuel Feliciano et al. View all

Issue 4

Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

Landfill facilities and organic waste treatment plants typically are known sources of odour pollution, such as gaseous NH3, among others. In this work, the removal of gaseous NH3 released from a composting line of a mechanical and biological treatment plant of undifferentiated municipal solid waste...

Valorisation Biomass +7 more
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Research on high performance green concrete using nano particles and organic materials: an eco-friendly approach

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Abiraami. R et al. View all

Issue 4

General

Since concrete is a fundamental component of all types of construction, many researchers are concentrating on developing High Performance Concrete (HPC) using efficient manufacturing processes. Nano silica is a quartz and silica dust this can be replaced instead of cement to achieve great strength...

Green Concrete Nano particles-Nano-silica and Delonixregia Pods +3 more
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Effectiveness of corn stalk biochar in amending the contaminated soil attributes and enhancing the sustainable grass growth

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Ditta A. et al. View all

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Environmental management and policy

It is important to rapidly amend the hostile rural soil fertility and quality to develop green land verdure. In this research, cornstalk-derived biochar was added (sequence proportions 0, 1, 5, 10, 20, and 50 % in the mass ratio) into hostile rural soil and then the grass was grown in the pots. The...

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Diatom records in sediments for eutrophication process of Lake Xian'nv, China since the mid-20th century

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Yong Ji et al. View all

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Environmental management and policy

To well understand the eutrophication process for inland lakes where more lands had been used for agriculture and industry without adequate environmental protections, 9 surface sediments and 1 core sediment in Lake Xian’nv which was located in the middle of Jiangxi Province were chosen. Combined...

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PROPERTIES OF BIOCOMPOSITES FROM WASTE EGGSHELL AS FILLERS

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Sivakumar A et al. View all

Issue 8

Solid Waste Management

In recent years there has been a heightened concentration on the industrial subsectors that are the primary contributors to environmental pollution. Filler materials made from mineral limestone, which is composed of calcium carbonate (CaCO3), are utilized in the production of polymer composites in...

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A STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF AIR POLLUTION ON HUMAN HEALTH: PM DEPOSITION MODELLING

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rajalakshmi.s.ce@kct.ac.in et al. View all

Issue 6

Air pollution and health

Earth is consisting of land, air and water. Air contains oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, water vapor, other gases are present above the permissible limit, and it creates effects on human health. It is one of the most important public health issues due to development of urbanization...

Urbanization Industrialization +4 more
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Electrokinetic Remediation for Textile Wastewater Contaminated Soil

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Dr. R. Chandra Devi et al. View all

Issue 5

Soil and groundwater contamination and remediation

Soil contamination due to industrial activities is very common and discharging of partially treated or untreated textile wastewater into nearby environment in developing countries contaminated soils. The remediation of textile wastewater contaminated soils containing residual organic dyes and...

Textile dyes Inorganic salts +3 more
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Development of Bacterial consortia from traditional lime mortar for the preparation of sustainable and strength-enhanced concrete: A solution for heavy metal toxic concrete

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Subitha T et al. View all

Issue 4

Environmental management and policy

The microbial consortia incorporated in bio concrete should have traits such as high alkali resistance and the ability to form endospores to overcome the mechanical and chemical stresses produced during concrete preparation. The primary intent of our work is to segregate and identify the calcium...

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Magnetic CoFe2O4@carbon yolk-shell nanoparticles as catalysts for the catalytic wet peroxide oxidation of paracetamol: kinetic insights

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Gomes H.T. et al. View all

Issue 2

Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

This work focuses on the use of carbon-coated magnetic cobalt ferrite nanoparticles as catalysts for catalytic wet peroxide oxidation (CWPO) of the emerging concern pollutant paracetamol (PCM). The magnetic core of the catalyst is composed of CoFe2O4 developed by a sol-gel method. The core is...

Ferrite Nanoestructure +7 more
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Carbon Storage Allocation Characteristics of Platycladus Orientalis Plantation Ecosystem with Different Densities

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Yanli Du et al. View all

Issue 4

CLEANWAS

Purpose: To research the influence of different densities of Platycladus orientalis plantation on the allocation characteristics of carbon storage in the ecosystem, the density regulation experiment on the Pinus massoniana plantation with different densities was carried out to discuss the change of...

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Vermicomposting of grass and newspaper waste mixed with cow dung using Eisenia fetida: physicochemical changes

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Seyyed Alireza Mousavi et al. View all

Issue 1

Solid Waste Management

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of different types of organic wastes (grass and newspaper wastes, cow dung and their combination) on physicochemical properties during vermicomposting using Eisenia fetida. Three set-ups were conducted in which three experiments were for composting...

Organic waste Cow dung +3 more
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Performances of Anoxic- Aerobic Membrane Bioreactors for The Treatment of Real Textile Wastewater

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Ahmed Albahnasawi et al. View all

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Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

Wastewater from textile industry is considered one of the major environmental challenges due to the large volume of highly colored, polluted and toxic effluent. This study investigated the treatability of real textile wastewater by pilot-scale anoxic-aerobic Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) system without...

Anoxic-Aerobic Bioreactor de-colorization +2 more
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Water Quality Monitoring with Emphasis on Estimation of Point and Diffuse Pollution Sources

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Burcu SIMSEK UYGUN et al. View all

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Air pollution and health

Population growth, urbanization and anthropogenic activities are becoming a serious problem for water resources in Turkey, which necessitates their monitoring and maintenance of water quality. In this study, water quality was implemented in the Porsuk Stream in Inner Anatolia, Turkey. Water samples...

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Nano Zero-Valent Iron Supported on Activated Carbon: Effect of AC/nZVI Ratio on Removal of Nickel Ion from Water

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ULUCAN-ALTUNTAS Kubra et al. View all

Issue 2

Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

The present study investigated the possible effect of contact time, initial nickel concentration, and adsorbent concentration on removing Ni (II) ion, which is toxic to living organisms, from the aqueous media using nano zero valent iron (nZVI) and nano zero valent iron coated powdered activated...

Nano Zero Valent Iron Activated carbon +3 more
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Effects of soil pH, Total Organic Carbon and texture on fate of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soils

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Emoyan, Onoriode Onos et al. View all

Issue 2

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...

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Assessment of residential exposure to Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

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Mentese S. et al. View all

Issue 4

Air pollution and health

There is increasing concern about indoor air pollution worldwide due to its adverse health effects. One of the predominant indoor air pollutant groups is assumed to be volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including a variety of hydrocarbons with different functional groups. Among VOCs, some species...

Indoor Air Pollution Volatile organic compounds +2 more
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Nitrogen removal by denitrification and annamox processes in freshwater rivers of high nitrogen loading region of China

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Yongqiang Zhao et al. View all

Issue 4

Air pollution and health

The importance of anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) – a metabolic pathway that can generate dinitrogen – remains poorly understood in freshwater river system. Using the 15N-isotope pairing technique (15N IPT) combined with membrane inlet mass spectrometry (MIMS), the potential rates of...

Taihu Lake region membrane inlet mass spectrometry +4 more
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Degradation of Total organic carbon (TOC) and Chemical oxygen demand (COD) in Petroleum wastewater by solar Photo-Fenton process.

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Dheeaa al deen Atallah Aljuboury et al. View all

Issue 3

Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

The aim of this study is to investigate the performance of solar photo-Fenton process (H2O2/Fe2+/Solar) to treat petroleum wastewater from Sohar oil Refinery, Oman. The effect of operating conditions such as pH, reaction time, Fenton ratio, and Fenton reagent concentrations are investigated. The...

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Humic acid removal from water using a novel fabricated antifouling carbon nanotube bucky - paper membrane and effect of operating parameters

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Jafari A, Nasseri S., Nabizadeh R., Mousavid SA., Rezaee R. and Mahvi AH.

Issue 2

Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

In present work, a novel supported bucky paper (BP) membrane was fabricated and evaluated for humic acid (HA) removal from water. For better understanding the effect of operating variables, response surface methodology (RSM) was also applied. Three independent parameters namely TOC concentration (5...

Filtration Natural organic matter +3 more
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Modeling and characterization of natural organic matter and its relationship with the THMs formation

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Brijesh Kumar Mishra et al. View all

Issue 4

Air pollution and health

Natural organic matter (NOM) has been identified as the prominent precursor for disinfection by-products (DBPs) formation during chlorination. Various studies have shown that the characteristics of NOM influence the Trihalomethanes (THMs) formation mechanism. The present study represents NOM...

Natural organic matter Total organic carbon +4 more
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