Nitrification at a full-scale activated sludge plant treating municipal wastewater was monitored over a period of 237 days. A combination of fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) and quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) were use...
Corrosion is often a major failure mechanism for concrete sewers and under such circumstances the sewer service life is largely determined by the progression of microbially induced concrete corrosion. The modelling of sewer processes has become possi...
The increasing use of engineered nanoparticles (NPs) in industrial and household applications will very likely lead to the release of such materials into the environment. As wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are usually the last barrier before the ...
Environmental science and pollution research international
Nov 17, 2015
The Artificial Neural Networks by Multi-objective Genetic Algorithms (ANN-MOGA) model has been applied to gross parameters data of a Sequencing Batch Biofilter Granular Reactor (SBBGR) with the aim of providing an effective tool for predicting the fl...
Journal of environmental sciences (China)
Oct 28, 2015
Immobilized pellets obtained by means of entrapping activated sludge in waterborne polyurethane were successfully adapted in ammonium (NH4(+)-N) synthetic wastewater. Its physicochemical characteristics were determined using scanning electron microsc...
Journal of environmental sciences (China)
Oct 28, 2015
Sonication is an effective way for sludge disintegration, which can significantly improve the efficiency of anaerobic digestion to reduce and recycle use of sludge. But high energy consumption limits the wide application of sonication. In order to im...
Environmental science and pollution research international
Dec 20, 2014
The present investigation deals with the prediction of the performance of simultaneous anaerobic sulfide and nitrate removal in an upflow anaerobic sludge bed (UASB) reactor through an artificial neural network (ANN). Influent sulfide concentration, ...
Statistical modelling serves as a valuable tool for predicting biogas production during the anaerobic digestion (AD) of organic substrates. This study offers a comparative analysis of three widely used models, specifically, the first-order kinetic mo...
The recalcitrant nature of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) in sewage sludge severely limits dewatering efficiency. While advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) disrupt EPS matrices, their optimization remains challenging. This study integrates ...
Alum sludge (AlS) has emerged as an effective adsorbent for anionic contaminants, with traditional activation methods like acid/base treatments and calcination employed to enhance its adsorption capacity. However, these approaches encounter significa...
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