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Volume 25
Issue number
8
Publication month
October

Hydrology and Water Resources Management

Assessment of the Role of Photovoltaic Systems in Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Wastewater Treatment Plants

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Seda TÖZÜM AKGÜL et al. View all

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Hydrology and Water Resources Management

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) consume large amounts of energy and thus cause an increase in carbon footprint. For this reason, it has become important not only to meet the discharge criteria in treatment plants, but also to reduce the carbon footprint resulting from treatment processes and...

Municipal wastewater treatment Carbon footprint +2 more
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Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

Reduction of soluble microbial products in activated sludge system with pure oxygen aeration under toxic stress condition of phenol

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Dong Wang et al. View all

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Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

This study aimed to explore the effect of pure oxygen aeration on the generation of soluble microbial products (SMP) when activated sludge was under toxic stress condition of phenol. Two parallel sequencing batch reactors, one with air and the other with pure oxygen aeration, were used to...

extracellular polymeric substances N-acyl-homoserine lactones +3 more
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Study on the removal performance of modified Enteromorpha-immobilized bacterial agent in oil contaminated seawater

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Qiao Yanlu et al. View all

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Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

Compared with free bacteria, immobilized bacteria have a higher oil degradation rate, making them highly promising for the bioremediation of offshore oil pollution. In our study, preparation conditions of modified Enteromorpha-immobilized bacterial agent were optimized by response surface method. A...

Oil pollution Enteromorpha prolifera +2 more
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Simultaneous degradation efficiency of C-MFCs for three pollutants in aquaculture wastewater

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Lu Hongsheng et al. View all

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Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

Chlorella microbial fuel cells may be an alternative technology for wastewater treatment. Using microalgae and activated sludge as raw materials, a C-MFCs was established, and the effects of different nitrogen and phosphorus ratios in the influent on the electrochemical performance of C-MFCs and the...

C-MFCs nitrogen-phosphorus ratio +3 more
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Fractional modelling of the reverse osmosis process used for dam water desalination

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Azizi Ahmed et al. View all

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Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

This paper deals with new fractional models to follow the performance of dam water reverse osmosis (DWRO) desalination system using the dimensionless cumulative volume of alimentation, permeate and rejection. The experimental data consist of 2561 points taken during 4 years of the lifetime of 66...

Fractional modelling Dimensionless parameters +3 more
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Perchlorate captured by activated carbon derived from dates seed through adsorption technique

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Adilakshmi. A and Senthil Kumar. M et al. View all

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Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

In the present research packed bed column with activated carbon which is derived from the natural available dates seed used for exclusion of perchlorate from aqueous sample. The effect of several variables on adsorption performance has been studied, including inlet ion concentration, flow rate, bed...

Perchlorate Chromatography +3 more
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Development of Cost Functions for Biological Treatment by Membrane Bio-Reactor

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Bhaskar Sengupta et al. View all

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Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

One of the space-saving and alternative options for wastewater treatment is the use of Membrane Bio-Reactor. This paper delineates the sequential approach to explore integrated cost functions for estimation of the forecast level cost for biological treatment of wastewater by use of Membrane Bio...

Determination Coefficient Mean Absolute Percentage Error +1 more
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Environmental Toxicology and Biogeochemistry of Ecosystems

Ecological toxicity of microplastics, aluminum and their combination to ectomycorrhizal fungi (Lactarius delicious)

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Zhang Liang et al. View all

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Environmental Toxicology and Biogeochemistry of Ecosystems

To investigate the combined toxic effects of microplastics and aluminum (Al) on ectomycorrhizal fungi, Lactobacillus delicious (Ld) was selected as the experimental subject to conduct research on monodisperse polystyrene microplastics (PS-MPs) (0, 20, 100, 200 mg L-1) and Al3+ (40 mg L-1) single...

microplastics aluminum +2 more
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Hazardous Substances and Risk Analysis

Human Health Risk Assessment of Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn through Consumption of Raw goat's Milk in Jijel province (Algeria).

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LEBSIR DALILA et al. View all

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Hazardous Substances and Risk Analysis

Contamination of the food chain by toxic metals is one of the main concerns for human health. Milk is part of a balanced diet; essential for proper growth, but can also contains hazardous chemicals and contaminants including heavy metals which can be a risk for health. The aim of this study is to...

Keywords: cancer risk goat’s milk +3 more
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Solid Waste Management

Microbial synthesis of eco-friendly polylactate plastic from low-cost agro-industrial wastes as an alternative to petrochemical-based plastic

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Khadiga A. Abou-Taleb et al. View all

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Solid Waste Management

Bioplastics made from renewable resources, such as contemporary biomass, have been developed more quickly as a result of global pollution from plastics made from petroleum, but it is still unclear how these materials will affect ecosystems. A common biopolymer that will make up 33% of the...

Bioplastic accumulating bacteria +5 more
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Odour emissions from a municipal solid waste dumping area that are at the moderate stage of disintegration

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Srinivasan S et al. View all

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Solid Waste Management

Odour is a major concern as they are termed hazardous to the surroundings as well as life forms when they are exposed to the environment. Odour emission is also one of the indicators of environmental changes that impact the environment. Among the different sources of odour emission, in the dumping...

MSW Dumping Yard VOCs +1 more
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Effective Utilization of Industrial and Constructional Solid Waste Materials in Foundry Mould Making to Prevent Environment Pollution and Conserve Natural Silica Sand

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Prabhushankar Nachimuthu et al. View all

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Solid Waste Management

Green sand moulding uses silica sand for metal casting. Silica sand mining and delivery to foundries destroy the ecosystem, making metal casting unsustainable. Due to increased sand-casting output and massive civil buildings in India, the silica sand supply is declining. The depletion and shortage...

Quarry dust Cupola slag +4 more
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Interaction of pyrolysis conditions and soil texture on biochar mineralization and its effect on soil structure.

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Marina Kouimtzi et al. View all

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Solid Waste Management

The effectiveness of biochar as a soil conditioner is depended on the feedstock type and pyrolysis conditions as these two factors determine its physical and chemical properties. Wheat straw was heated at two temperatures: a) 2500C and b) 5000C for two time periods: i)20 min and ii) 60 min to...

wheat straw Biochar +3 more
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Mechanical properties of Biodegradable Composite Developed by Modification of Poly lactic Acid with Orange Peel Powder

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Sivakumar A et al. View all

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Solid Waste Management

One of the biggest environmental issues has been the use and disposal of traditional fossil-based plastic, which is not biodegradable and uses a lot of energy in its production. Poly lactic acid (PLA) has received a lot of attention as an environmentally friendly substitute due to the fact that it...

Composites Morphology +3 more
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PROPERTIES OF BIOCOMPOSITES FROM WASTE EGGSHELL AS FILLERS

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Sivakumar A et al. View all

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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...

Biocomposites Filler +2 more
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Climate change

Incorporating of waste from sugar industry and cement industry in concrete

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Nirmal Ponnambalam et al. View all

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Climate change

As the production of biomass waste from agroindustry grows across the world, a large amount of agro-based ashes ends up in polluting land. India produced 405.4 million tones of sugarcane in 2019, with a capacity of 105.4 million tonnes of bagasse and 2.5 million tonnes of SBA. The utilization of...

Waste utilization Sugarcane Bagasse Ash +3 more
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Air pollution and health

Flood susceptibility in urban environment using multi-layered neural network model from satellite imagery sources

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Swathika R et al. View all

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Air pollution and health

Recently, there has been a rise in research based on data-driven based machine learning models to address the issue of processing speed posed by various physiological simulations. The majority of studies, however, have concentrated on creating models for particular water sources, drainage systems...

Spatio-temporal Flood disaster +3 more
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Environmental data analysis and modelling

Modeling and Estimation of Solar Radiation through Artificial Neural Network using known Solar Data

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Naeem Sadiq et al. View all

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Environmental data analysis and modelling

The paper attempts to discover a city's global, direct beam, and diffused solar radiation with the help of known solar radiation of its neighbor(s). Two distinctive architecture have been used to find the solar radiation of a city. In the first architecture, we used single input and a single hidden...

Artificial Neural Network Global Radiation +2 more
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Sustainable Energy

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