De Battisti, Achille Formaglio, Paolo Ferro, Sergio Al Aukidy, Mustafa Verlicchi, Paola
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Chemosphere
Lab-scale experiments using real groundwater were carried out using the CabECO® reactor system in order to evaluate its suitability for producing safe water, acceptable for civil purposes. Trials were carried out in discontinuous and in continuous mode, analyzing the influence of electrical and hydraulic process parameters on the quality of treated...
Fan, Qinya Sun, Jianxiong Chu, Lei Cui, Liqiang Quan, Guixiang Yan, Jinlong Hussain, Qaiser Iqbal, Muhammad
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Chemosphere
Biochar is a beneficial soil amendment but the changes in its surface properties during the aging process, especially the oxygen-containing functional groups and the associated adsorption behaviors, are not well documented. In this paper, the aged wheat straw biochar was simulated by chemical oxidation with HNO3-H2SO4 and NaOH-H2O2 systems. Charact...
Fu, Ye Wang, Wubin Li, Xuejing Liu, Yanli Niu, Yingying Zhang, Bin Nie, Jisheng Pan, Baolong Wang, Ruisheng Yang, Jin
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Chemosphere
Benzo [a]pyrene (BaP) have been demonstrated to induce lung cancer risk in humans and many different animal models, with aberrant gene methylation as one of the epigenetic errors; however, the molecular mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we used three types of human lung-derived cells with BaP exposure as a model and attempted to investigate the long...
Zhu, Shishu Huang, Xiaochen Wang, Dawei Wang, Li Ma, Fang
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Chemosphere
The superiority of the nanoscale zero valent iron (nZVI) assisted biochar (BC) composites compared to traditional nZVI and its application feasibility are still unclear. This study aimed to provide valuable information for practical application. Firstly, the Fe/BC mass ratio of 2:1 during the preparation of nZVI-BC was proved obtaining the complete...
Feng, Yong Li, Hailong Wu, Deli Liao, Changzhong Fan, Yiang Lee, Po-Heng Shih, Kaimin
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Supported metallic palladium (Pd) acts as a real catalyst for peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation to produce highly oxidizing species. However, the species produced are surface-bound in nature, and their use for pollutant degradation requires an inert supporting material to minimize the surface scavenging effect. In this study, we synthesized Pd nan...
Mumme, Jan Getz, Josephine Prasad, Munoo Lüder, Ulf Kern, Jürgen Mašek, Ondřej Buss, Wolfram
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Chemosphere
This study assessed the properties and toxicity (water cress germination trials) of 38 waste-derived, novel biochar-mineral composites (BMCs) produced via slow pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbonization (hydrochars). The biochars were produced from sewage sludge and compost-like output (CLO) by varying the type of mineral additive (zeolite, wood ash ...
Barghi, Mandana Shin, Eun-Su Choi, Sung-Deuk Dahmardeh Behrooz, Reza Chang, Yoon-Seok
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Chemosphere
Human biomonitoring is a reliable method for evaluating human exposure to specific contaminants. Although blood is an ideal matrix for monitoring purposes, it is regarded as an invasive matrix. Therefore, current developments in the field of human biomonitoring are based on introducing new methods that use non-invasive matrices, such as hair. In th...
Erban, Tomas Stehlik, Martin Sopko, Bruno Markovic, Martin Seifrtova, Marcela Halesova, Tatana Kovaricek, Pavel
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Chemosphere
The broad-spectrum herbicide glyphosate is one of the most widely used pesticides. Both glyphosate and its major metabolite, aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), persist in waters; thus, their environmental fates are of interest. We investigated the influence of compost dose, sampling depth, moisture and saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) on the p...
Chai, Huijuan Zhang, Zhimin Zhou, Yuqi Zhu, Lihua Lv, Hanqing Wang, Nan
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Chemosphere
Commercial β-MnO2 with a chemical formula of approximate Mn0.774+Mn0.233+O1.88 was used for mechanochemical (MC) oxidative degradation of decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE209). The ball milling process initiated the degradation of BDE209 on β-MnO2, yielding a nearly complete degradation and debromination of BDE209 within 2 h. The use of β-MnO2 exhibited...
Zhang, Yimei Li, Shuai Wang, Fei Chen, Zhuang Chen, Jie Wang, Liqun
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Chemosphere
Toxicity of heavy metals from industrialization poses critical concern, and analysis of sources associated with potential human health risks is of unique significance. Assessing human health risk of pollution sources (factored health risk) concurrently in the whole and the sub region can provide more instructive information to protect specific pote...
