Ghafoori, Samira Nasirian, Mohsen Al-Jamal, Rasha Mallouh, Fahad Abu Mehrvar, Mehrab
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Doping a transition metal into photocatalysts enhances the photocatalytic activity drastically. In the first part of this study, Taguchi design of experiment is applied to evaluate and optimize the efficiency of the Fe2O3/TiO2 photocatalyst synthetized by thermal method assisted by UV radiation. The contribution percentages of Fe:TiO2 mass ratio, F...
Nathan, Vinod Kumar Rani, Mary Esther
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Lipase enzyme has a critical role in deinking process along with other lignocellulosic enzymes. In this paper, we try to demonstrate the role of lipase in the enzyme cocktail used for enzymatic deinking. For this, we identified a potential lipolytic bacterium, Pseudomonas mendocina ED9 isolated from elephant dung with a molecular weight of 35 kDa. ...
Banadkooki, Fatemeh Barzegari Ehteram, Mohammad Ahmed, Ali Najah Teo, Fang Yenn Ebrahimi, Mahboube Fai, Chow Ming Huang, Yuk Feng El-Shafie, Ahmed
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Suspended sediment load (SSL) estimation is a required exercise in water resource management. This article proposes the use of hybrid artificial neural network (ANN) models, for the prediction of SSL, based on previous SSL values. Different input scenarios of daily SSL were used to evaluate the capacity of the ANN-ant lion optimization (ALO), ANN-b...
Kanwar, Varinder Singh Sharma, Ajay Srivastav, Arun Lal Rani, Lata
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Heavy metals are one of the most hazardous inorganic contaminants of both water and soil environment composition. Normally, heavy metals are non-biodegradable in nature because of their long persistence in the environment. Trace amounts of heavy metal contamination may pose severe health problems in human beings after prolonged consumption. Many in...
Anser, Muhammad Khalid Mohsin, Muhammad Abbas, Qaiser Chaudhry, Imran Sharif
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Solar energy systems are a cheaper and easy solution to cope with severe energy crisis especially in emerging economies including Turkey which exerted huge efforts to enhance the existing solar power projects. However, the selection of the optimal site for the installation of solar projects needs vigorous investigation through various factors. Adeq...
Vitalini, Sara Orlando, Francesca Palmioli, Alessandro Alali, Sumer Airoldi, Cristina De Noni, Ivano Vaglia, Valentina Bocchi, Stefano Iriti, Marcello
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Rice cultivation, particularly prone to weed issues, requires practices able to effectively control them, however reducing the use of herbicides, responsible for damage to human health and ecosystem sustainability. Alternative strategies for weed management can be based on plant-plant interaction phenomena. In this context, a group of organic farme...
Mizukawa, Kaoruko Yamada, Toshiko Hirai, Yasuko Takada, Hideshige
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Although the debromination of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in fish species has been studied, environmental factors, such as chemical contamination and habitat temperature, have not been well understood. This study compared debromination of BDE209 by hepatic microsomes of wild and cultured fish. PBDE concentrations in muscle tissue were lo...
Abdel-Kader, Heba H. Mourad, Mohamed H.
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The trace elements concentration in the fish estimates the contamination degree in the aquatic environment. These toxic trace elements are transported into the human through the consumption of polluted fish. This study estimated the effect of Cd, Hg, Pb, As, and Al on tilapia species and catfish Clarias gariepinus (six for each species of fish) inh...
Guo, Changqiang Cui, Yuanlai Luo, Yufeng
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Solute transport models and hydraulic indicators are commonly used to assess the flow pattern of free water surface–constructed wetlands (FWS CWs). However, the relationship between solute transport models and hydraulic performance remains poorly understood. The hybrid model comprised of plug flow with dispersion and continuous stirred tank reactor...
Zhang, Xiaoxue Wang, Xiaomin Li, Cheng Zhang, Lixiu Ning, Guohui Shi, Wei Zhang, Xuena Yang, Zhixin
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The capacity of Fusarium sp. strain ZH-H2 to secret lignin peroxidase (LiP), laccase (Lac), and manganese peroxidase (MnP) and degrade high molecular weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (HMW-PAHs) was studied. When the fungus was grown in control mineral salt medium for 4 days, LiP and Lac activities were detected at 8871 U L−1 and 5123 U L−1, ...
