Alcantara-Cobos, A. Solache-Rios, M. Gutiérrez-Segura, E.
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Two materials (ZnO nanoparticles (nanZnO) and a composite (Ze-nanZnO)) were prepared; the composite was prepared by chemical precipitation on a natural zeolite. The materials were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), UV-...
Tonhato Junior, Alcides Hasan, Salah Din Mahmud Sebastien, Nyamien Yahaut
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The brewing industry is an important sector in the world economy, and its production process generates a large amount of wastewater. It is essential the proper treatment of this wastewater and a significant amount of biomass may be recovered by coagulation/flocculation process. When using vegetable tannin as an organic flocculant, biomass can be us...
Garcia, Camila Fernandes H. de Souza, Raphael B. de Souza, Cleiton Pereira Fontanetti, Carmem Silvia
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Brazil is one of the greatest producers of orange and its orange juice processing industry produces large volumes of solid and liquid waste daily. As an efficient use of the residues from citrus industry, production of bioethanol is highlighted. However, the generation of bioethanol produces a liquid effluent as a by-product, known as vinasse. The ...
Rusanowska, Paulina Cydzik-Kwiatkowska, Agnieszka Wojnowska-Baryła, Irena
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The study investigated species composition and polysaccharides, proteins, and eDNA content in EPS fractions (soluble, Sol-EPS; loosely bound, LB-EPS; tightly bound, TB-EPS) in nitrifying aerobic granules from reactor operated at a high load of nitrogen 0.5 kg TKN/(m3 × day). In the study, polysaccharides predominated in Sol-EPS, whereas proteins we...
Kapusta, Krzysztof Stańczyk, Krzysztof Wiatowski, Marian
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This work comprises results of the laboratory tests on formation and potential release of contaminants from underground gasification of lignites. Four large scale and multi-day trials were carried out using ex-situ gasification facilities. Two different kinds of lignite were tested, i.e. Velenje lignite (Slovenia) and Oltenia lignite (Romania). Gas...
Ding, Hong Zou, Yue Zheng, Xiangzhou Zhang, Yushu Yu, Juhua Chen, Deli
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To elucidate the inhibitory effects of different herbicides on soil nitrification, eight widely used herbicides, i.e., acetochlor, atrazine, dicamba, isoproturon, paraquat, puma, tribenuron-methyl, and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid butyl ester (2,4-Dbe), which represent different chemical taxonomy were selected. Our results indicated that herbicid...
Biswas, Subrata Meikap, Bhim Charan Sen, Tushar Kanti
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This research work is focused on the synthesis, characterization, and application of cost-effective biochar–biopolymeric hybrid adsorbents from waste agricultural biomass and sodium alginate. The adsorbents were characterized by BET (Brunauer–Emmett–Teller), FTIR (Fourier transform infrared), XRD (X-ray diffraction), FESEM (field emission scanning ...
Ruiz-Bevia, Francisco Fernandez-Torres, Maria J.
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Zeghoud, Laid Gouamid, Messaoud Ben Mya, Omar Rebiai, Abdelkrim Saidi, Mokhtar
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In this study, the adsorption of methylene blue (MB) from aqueous solutions on palm frond base (PFB) and palm leaflets (PL) was investigated. The adsorbents were characterized by elemental analysis using X-ray fluorescence (XRF), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, Brunauer, Emmet, and Teller (BET) technique, and scanning electron micro...
Wu, Junkang Chen, Zhoukai Zhang, Shiwen Gao, Lei Yu, Ran Zhan, Manjun
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Due to the dramatically increasing production of excess sludge during biological wastewater treatment, the development of an economical, efficient, and environmentally friendly sludge dewatering method is highly required. Herein, Bdellovibrio-and-like organisms (BALOs), a group of predatory bacteria were applied for waste sludge dewaterability enha...
