Effects of Al-coagulant sludge characteristics on the efficiency of coagulants recovery by acidification.

abstract：:The mechanical and biological waste treatment (MBT) is an increasingly important technology for the treatment of municipal solid waste (MSW) before landfilling. This process includes composting of the material with intensive aeration in order to minimize the organic fraction that may induce methane and leachate emissi...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Clemens J,Cuhls C

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The persistence of organic pollutants is an important environmental property due to the extended possibility to have an impact of corresponding substances. In many cases, the experimental values of the thousands of contaminants are missing. The object of the study is novel computational modeling for air pollutions. Qu...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Toropova AP,Toropov AA,Lombardo A,Lavado G,Benfenati E

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We consider the use of metallic iron nanoparticles for cleaning contaminated water, focusing our study in the sorption of arsenic compounds. In particular, we discuss the results of their sorption process on the surface of zerovalent iron nanoparticles (nZVI) by performing a complete characterization of the surface mo...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Baltazar SE,García A,Romero AH,Rubio MA,Arancibia-Miranda N,Altbir D

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is focused on the concentration of fermented broth from Phoma sp. to increase its herbicidal activity. For this purpose, biomolecules produced by submerged fermentation using Phoma sp. were concentrated by hollow fiber microfiltration membranes. The membrane feed was separated into two streams (retentate an...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Todero I,Confortin TC,Soares JF,Brun T,Luft L,Rabuske JE,Kuhn RC,Tres MV,Zabot GL,Mazutti MA

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard filtration methods have been characterized by poor recoveries when processing large-volume samples of environmental water. A method to pre-remove particulates present in turbid waters would be necessary to enhance recovery of protozoan oocysts. Particulate separation can be achieved by the proposed multiplex ...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Pires NM,Dong T

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main aim of this work is to test the performance of red mud as a permeable reactive barrier (PRB) material for fluoride removal from water. Batch experiments were carried out to optimise the fluoride removal efficiency (RE) of activated red mud (ARM) based on four selected parameters, namely, the initial fluoride ...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Vinati A,Rene ER,Pakshirajan K,Behera SK

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, the reduction of the moisture content from waste oils by a bentonite-based adsorption process was investigated as an alternative for reuse in energy production. Waste cooking oil (WCO) and waste poultry fat (WPF) were characterised (moisture and viscosity, values of acidity, saponification, and peroxide)...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Dotto J,Espinoza-Quiñones FR,Milinsk MC,Alves HJ

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluoxetine is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) widely used in the treatment of major depression. It has been detected in surface and wastewaters, being able to negatively affect aquatic organisms. Most of the ecotoxicity studies focused only in pharmaceuticals, though excipients can also pose a risk to ...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Silva A,Santos LH,Delerue-Matos C,Figueiredo SA

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elemental balances of microbial growth have been applied to calculate (C/N) ratio in a denitrification process. The correlation between biomass yield coefficient and degree of reduction has been used to estimate the critical (C/N) ratio. It has been shown that when the degree of reduction of the substrate is lower tha...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Sobieszuk P,Szewczyk KW

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pilot-scale moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) is used to investigate the kinetics and biofilm response of municipal, tertiary nitrification at 1°C. The research demonstrates that significant rates of tertiary MBBR nitrification are attainable and stable for extended periods of operation at 1°C, with a maximum removal ...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Young B,Delatolla R,Ren B,Kennedy K,Laflamme E,Stintzi A

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, it was developed three-dimensional (3D) porous hydrogel sponges produced by the freeze-dried process using chitosan polymer functionalized by 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid (MUA). These chitosan-based sponges were used as cationic adsorbents for the removal of anionic methyl orange (MO) dye, simulating a mod...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Carvalho IC,Medeiros Borsagli FGL,Mansur AAP,Caldeira CL,Haas DJ,Lage AP,Ciminelli VST,Mansur HS

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of a vertical and a horizontal subsurface flow wetland (v-SSF and h-SSF), designed for treating domestic wastewater from a single family, was investigated by monitoring total nitrogen (TN), nitrate nitrogen (NO3-N), ammonium nitrogen (NH4-N), total phosphorus (TP), chemical oxygen demand (COD) and the ...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Mietto A,Borin M

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aerobic granular systems are mainly sequencing batch reactors where the biomass is submitted to feast-famine regimes to promote its aggregation in the form of granules. In these systems, different cycle distributions can be applied for the simultaneous removal of organic matter, nitrogen and phosphorus. In this wo...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Val del Río A,Morales N,Figueroa M,Mosquera-Corral A,Campos JL,Méndez R

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of their applications in large numbers of products, Zinc Oxide nanoparticles (nano-ZnO) will inevitably enter into the environment. Nano-ZnO released into the environment will be present in a complex matrix which can cause various chemical and physical transformations and modulate the biological reactivity of ...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Chen X,O'Halloran J,Jansen MAK

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method for the simultaneous determination of cyanuric acid (CA), melamine (MM) and cyromazine (CM) in different water samples was developed by using reversed phase high-performance liquid chromatography diode-array detection (RP-HPLC-DAD). The conditions of HPLC were investigated and optimized. A KROMASIL C18 co...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Sun H,Qin X,Ge X,Wang L

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Used polyethylene terephthalate bottles (PET) dumped indiscriminately onto bare lands and water bodies constitute an eyesore. This problem is viewed as a serious impediment to the flourishing tourism industry in Mauritius. Currently, over 100 million PET bottles are generated annually and the only fully operational di...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Foolmaun RK,Ramjeeawon T

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maghemite/silica nanocomposite microspheres (γ-Fe2O3/SiO2 MS) have been tested as magnetically separable heterogeneous Fenton catalyst in beidellite clay slurries in the presence of methylorange (MO) as a model pollutant. Due to its strong magnetic susceptibility, the catalyst was easily recovered from the clay slurri...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Boussouf I,Medjram MS,Ferroudj N,Abramson S

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electromagnetic induction (EMI) has been used to map soil properties such as salinity and water content. The objective of this research is to use EMI to map the potential distribution of nutrients around beef cattle pens and to relate this distribution to major physiographic field features. Beef cattle farms in differ...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Cordeiro MR,Ranjan RS,Cicek N

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this work is to evaluate biological groundwater treatment systems that will achieve hexavalent chromium removal from groundwater at hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) groundwater concentrations in the 0-200 μg/L range under anoxic conditions. The effect of type of organic substrate added as feed to the grou...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Panousi E,Mamais D,Noutsopoulos C,Mpertoli K,Kantzavelou C,Nyktari E,Kavallari I,Nasioka M,Kaldis A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work proposed a new approach of reusing drinking water treatment residuals (WTR) in a continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) to remove phosphate (P) from urban wastewater. The results revealed that the P removal efficiency of the WTR was more than 94% for urban wastewater, in the condition of initial P concentrat...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Bai L,Wang C,Pei Y,Zhao J

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Removing protozoa from a water supply using coagulation, flocculation, dissolved air flotation (DAF) and filtration on a bench scale was evaluated. Calcium carbonate flocculation with and without immunomagnetic separation (IMS) was chosen to detect Giardia spp. cysts and Cryptosporidium spp. oocysts in the studied sam...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Andreoli FC,Sabogal-Paz LP

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the combined use of a biopolymer chitosan and an oxidoreductase polyphenol oxidase (PPO) was systematically investigated for the removal of bisphenol derivatives from aqueous medium. The process parameters, such as the pH value, temperature, and PPO concentration, were estimated to conduct the enzymatic...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Kimura Y,Takahashi A,Kashiwada A,Yamada K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of benzene and phenol in the environment can lead to serious health effects in humans and warrant development of efficient cleanup strategies. The aim of the present work was to assess the potential of indigenous endophytic bacterial strains to degrade benzene and phenol. Seven strains were successfully i...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Iqbal A,Arshad M,Hashmi I,Karthikeyan R,Gentry TJ,Schwab AP

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present research work is aimed at providing an economically feasible solution for the farmers to exploit the mixed organic wastes (MOW) as resources for the generation of biogas based electrical power and utilize the same for irrigation purpose to reduce the dependence on electricity board. A full scale biomethana...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Begum S,Ahuja S,Anupoju GR,Ahuja DK,Arelli V,Juntupally S

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation process is highly influenced by solution pH, floc breakage, and coagulant aid. In this work, two-stage addition of alum-based coagulants, polyaluminum chloride (PACl) and aluminum sulfate (Al2(SO4)3), was compared to their one-stage addition with the same total dosage. The dose ratio of primary and seconda...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Du P,Li X,Yang Y,Fan X,Fang X,Zhou Z

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of ozonation on sludge disintegration should be investigated before the application of ozone during biological treatment, in order to minimize excess sludge production. In this study, changes in sludge and supernatant after ozonation of return activated sludge were investigated for seven different ozone do...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Demir O,Filibeli A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incinerators do not achieve a complete mineralization of organic constituents of municipal solid waste. Bottom ash (main solid residue from incineration process) still contains a small quantity of carbon (1 to 5% in weight). This study is about characterisation of the carboned fraction (without carbonates) present in ...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Quilici L,Praud-Tabaries A,Bottzeck O,Tiliacos N

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A possible approach for determining soil and groundwater quality criteria for contaminated sites is the comparative risk assessment. Originating from but not limited to Italian interest in a decentralised (regional) implementation of comparative risk assessment, this paper first addresses the proposal of an original m...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Marzocchini M,Tatàno F,Moretti MS,Antinori C,Orilisi S

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pig manure at three different ratios of 12.5%, 25% and 50% (w/w dry weight basis) was amended with a soil spiked with 100 mg kg(-1) each of three polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (phenanthrene, anthracene, and pyrene) to investigate its effect on the biodegradation of these PAHs in a bench-scale composting system. An ...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Wong JW,Wan CK,Fang M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to develop a two-stage process for the treatment of Hong Kong leachate. The leachate, containing 4750 mg l-1 of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and 1310 mg l-1 of ammoniacal nitrogen (NH3-N), was first treated in a UASB (upflow anaerobic sludge blanket) reactor at 37 degrees C. The process remove...

journal_title：Environmental technology

authors： Wang P,Lau IW,Fang HH

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00