Evaluation of micro-organic pollution in lake sediments: application to Akanoi Bay, Lake Biwa, Japan.

abstract：:Optical Brightening Agent (OBA) wastewater (OBAW) has been reported to be highly resistant to biodegradation. In this study, a real OBAW from an industry which was already treated using primary and secondary treatments (residual COD of secondary clarifier overflow (SCO): 3400-3700 mgL-1) was further treated by Fenton'...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Mapara S,Patel UD,Keen O,Ruparelia JP

更新日期：2019-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently available pore water samplers generally do not allow continuous monitoring of temporal variations in pore water composition. Therefore, a new type of pore water collector was designed and constructed. These collectors were constructed of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) materials, including PVC tubing with one end s...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Gao F,Deng J,Li Q,Hu L,Zhu J,Hang H,Hu W

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic present in water bodies causes devastating effects on aquatic organisms and indirectly poses a hazardous threat to human existence. There is an urgent need to develop potential and convincing technologies to troubleshoot this problem. In the present study, an adsorbent has been prepared using the waste red mud...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Naga Babu A,Raja Sree T,Srinivasa Reddy D,Suresh Kumar G,Krishna Mohan GV

更新日期：2019-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic biofilm reactors have limitations in treating wastewaters with low organic substrate concentrations (COD value below 1000 mg/L) because the substrate cannot reach the microorganisms present in the interior part of the biogranules. Hence, the performance of these reactors is mainly influenced by the size of t...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Ramesh M,Saravanan V,Sreekrishnan TR

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the application of sludge waste obtained from a coal mine drainage treatment facility that treats acid mine drainage (designated as AMD) from metal-mine water. The coal mine drainage sludge (designated as CMDS), which contained 70% goethite and 30% calcite, was utilized as a sorption mat...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Cui M,Jang M,Cho SH,Khim J

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To recover oil from crude oil containing sludge is still a research hot topic from the view of sustainability, in which ultrasonic has been proven to be an efficient and environment friendly technique. However, the effect of sludge characteristic on ultrasonic-assisted oil recovery efficiency is little known. In this ...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： He S,Tan X,Hu X,Gao Y

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reliability of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) tests as a screening technique to address groundwater contamination was tested in an area following leakage of gasoline from a petrol station. Immunoassay data of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and o-, m- and p-xylene (BTEX) were compared with results obtai...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Francioni E,Fillmann G,Hamacher C,Wagener Ade L,Depledge MH,Readman JW,Meniconi Mde F

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to solve the water solubility and difficult re-use of plant polyphenol (PP) in Cd(II) adsorption, PP was immobilized on the surface of magnetic material in this study. A core-shell nanocomposite Fe3O4/SiO2/PP (∼18 nm) was synthesized with 3-8 nm SiO2 and 2-5 nm PP. TGA analysis revealed the PP coating amount ...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Liu C,Jiang X,Wang X,Wang Q,Li L,Zhang F,Liang W

更新日期：2020-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The triazines are a group of herbicides with a wide range of uses. Atrazine is, in fact, one of the most used agricultural pesticides in the world. The terbuthylazine is applied as a substitute of atrazine in some countries of Europe since 2004, when the European Union announced a ban of atrazine because of ubiquitous...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Pereira SV,Reis T,Souza BS,Dantas RF,Azevedo DA,Dezotti M,Sans C,Esplugas S

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, catalytic samples of 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50% (w/w) urea/activated carbon fibre (AFC), 10% urea--5% La2O3/ACF, 10% urea--10% La2O3/ACF, 10% urea--15% La2O3/ACF, 20% urea--5% La2O3/ACF, 20% urea--10% La2O3/ACF, and 20% urea-15% La2O3/ACF were prepared and used for removal of NO under the condition of: NO, ...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Lu P,Zeng Z,Li C,Zeng G,Guo J,Jiang X,Zhai Y,Fan X

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In industrial activities, operation of air biofilters may be interrupted for a long period of time. In order to examine the effect of shut-down on the performance of biofilters, a pilot scale biofiltration unit was restarted up after a non-use duration of eight months. After a reacclimation period of eight days, the b...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Elmrini H,Kerdouss F,Jorio H,Heitz M

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hospital wastewater contains a great variety of pharmaceutical compounds (PhCs), mainly due to excretion by patients. These PhCs, called emerging pollutants, are not fully eliminated in treatment plants, and are consequently detected in various environmental matrices, contributing to bacterial resistance and adverse e...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Souza FS,Féris LA

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, poly(N-isopropylmethacrylamide-co-methacrylic acid) microgels prepared by free radical precipitation polymerization were used as micro-reactors for the synthesis and stabilization of silver nanoparticles. UV-Visible spectroscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy and Fourier-transform infrared spectrosco...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Farooqi ZH,Khalid R,Begum R,Farooq U,Wu Q,Wu W,Ajmal M,Irfan A,Naseem K

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lab-scale activated sludge sequencing batch reactor (SBR) was used to treat tank truck cleaning (TTC) wastewater with different operational strategies (identified as different stages). The first stage was an adaptation period for the seed sludge that originated from a continuous fed industrial plant treating TTC was...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Caluwé M,Dobbeleers T,Daens D,Geuens L,Blust R,Dries J

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite being acknowledged as an emerging contaminant, sulphamethazine (SMT) degradation has received scarce attention in the advanced oxidation processes field. Thus, this work addresses the degradation of SMT in water solutions (12 L of 25mgL-1 samples) by means of a photo-Fenton process and a systematic H202 dosage...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Yamal-Turbay E,González LP,Graells M,Pérez-Moya M

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of a laboratory-scale dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) nonthermal plasma reactor at atmospheric pressure was assessed for the removal of bisphenol A (1 mg L(-1)) and tributyltin (10 mg L(-1)) from aqueous solutions. The elimination of both the compounds followed an exponential decay equation, and a first...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Hijosa-Valsero M,Molina R,Bayona JM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum) is among the most cultivated fish species in tropical countries. Stress is the main cause of disease in fish farms. The genus Aeromonas is a common causative agent of fish diseases. This work reports the identification of Aeromonas species colonizing gills of C. macropomum submitted or ...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Marques DS,Ferreira DA,Paiva PM,Napoleão TH,Araújo JM,Maciel Carvalho EV,Coelho LC

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tertiary treatment of municipal wastewater by dissolved air flotation was studied on a pilot-scale. The effects of coagulant dose, flocculation pattern, dispersion water recycle ratio and hydraulic surface load on process performance were evaluated. The treatment of primary effluents by dissolved air flotation was inv...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Koivunen J,Heinonen-Tanski H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doping non-metals onto TiO2 has been regarded as a promising way to gain a more effective photocatalyst. In this paper, N, F-codoped TiO2 was synthesized by the sol-gel method, demonstrating both high adsorption capacity and high photocatalytic activity under visible light irradiation. Samples were characterized by X-...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Xia SM,Zhang YQ,Zheng YF,Xu CS,Liu GM

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic digestion of agricultural biomass or wastes can offer renewable energy, to help meet the rise in energy demands. The performance of an anaerobic digester considerably depends upon the complex interactions between bacterial and archaeal microbiome, which is greatly influenced by environmental factors. In the ...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Mahajan R,Nikitina A,Nozhevnikova A,Goel G

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few decades, several technologies have been developed to recover phosphorus (P) as struvite from wastewater. Although these technologies have achieved reasonable P-removal efficiencies, these technologies are associated with several shortcomings such as high capital and operating costs, longer crystalliz...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Ghosh S,Lobanov S,Lo VK

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of sewage sludge (SS) by biodegradable polyacrylamide-based flocculants (PAM) is considered to be an effective way to increase total solids' (TS) content prior to anaerobic digestion (AD). However, data on how PAM addition influences the efficiency of AD process are quite contradictory; moreover, no data are...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Litti Y,Nikitina A,Kovalev D,Ermoshin A,Mahajan R,Goel G,Nozhevnikova A

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biosorption is an emerging technology for the removal of heavy metals from industrial wastewater by natural or modified biomass. In this study, we proposed a novel protocol for making full use of seaweeds. Brown seaweed Sargassum carpophyllum residue (SCR) and green seaweed Caulerpa lentillifera residue (CLR) were obt...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Li R,Zhang T,Zhong H,Song W,Zhou Y,Yin X

更新日期：2020-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Black carbon (BC) particles were removed from experimental flue gas by the surfactant solutions of sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate (SDBS), hexadecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB), fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene ether-9 (AEO-9) and polyoxy ethrlene nonyl phinyl ether-10 (TX-10), as well as AEO-9-SDBS, AEO-9-CTAB and...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Lu P,Li C,Zeng G,Zhao Y,Zhan Q,Song J,Fan X

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Greenbelt is a strip of vegetation for which species of trees and shrubs are scientifically chosen and planted to serve a designated purpose such as control of wind erosion, of dust, of noise etc. In the context of air pollution attenuation, greenbelts must be developed around a source of air pollutant in a manner so ...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Khan FI,Abbasi SA

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen-doped fluorescent carbon quantum dots (CQDs) was prepared by gas-assisted method using cellulose as precursors under ammonia atmosphere, which not only exhibited excellent photoluminescent properties, but also showed highly selective and sensitive detection of mercury ion. The nitrogen-doped CQDs displayed ex...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Li Y,Wang N,He Z

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the utilization of agricultural matrices as the support materials for cell immobilization to improve the technique of bioremediation. Coir, bulrush, banana stem and water hyacinth stem in both delignified and undelignified forms were used to immobilize Burkholderia cepacia PCL3 in bioremediatio...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Laocharoen S,Plangklang P,Reungsang A

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we report a stable g-C3N4, Bi2S3, and g-C3N4/Bi2S3 composite catalysts were prepared via a facile one-pot microwave-assisted method and characterized. The orthorhombic phase and nearly spherical shape of the particles with an average diameter of 5-25 nm of g-C3N4/Bi2S3 composite were obtained from XRD an...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Ayodhya D,Veerabhadram G

更新日期：2019-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In the north of Marrakesh (Morocco), the high anthropogenic activity and the permeable nature of the geological ground makes the water of Jbilet vulnerable to contamination. The results of physico-chemical analyses conducted in 2006 showed that two groups of wells could be distinguished. Groundwater of wells located o...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Hallam F,Yacoubi-Khebiza M,Oufdou K,Boulanouar M

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prototype pilot plant testing for a novel complete treatment strategy for landfill leachate aimed to decrease its environmental impact was studied. Pre-treatment of leachate was performed by means of a membrane biore-actor (MBR) decreasing inorganic carbon concentration by 92 ± 8% and achieving N removals of 85%. Su...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Ribera-Pi J,Badia-Fabregat M,Espí J,Clarens F,Jubany I,Martínez-Lladó X

更新日期：2020-03-04 00:00:00