Erratum: Probabilistic application of a fugacity model to predict triclosan fate during wastewater treatment

Are we about to reliably predict the fate of micropollutants through wastewater treatment plants?

Models for micropollutants (MPs) are required to provide engineers and decision-makers with reliable tools that will help increase MP removal through wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and minimize their impact on the receiving waters. This paper aims at identifying the modelling needs of research (fundamental) vs. practice (design) vs. regulation (compliance) with a focus on the interactions....

Biodegradation of triclosan by a wastewater microorganism.

Triclosan, a synthetic antimicrobial agent, has been considered as an emerging environmental contaminant. Here we reported a triclosan-degrading wastewater bacterial isolate, Sphingopyxis strain KCY1, capable of dechlorinating triclosan with a stoichiometric release of chloride. The stain can degrade diphenyl ether but not 2,4,4'-tribromodiphenyl ether and 2,2',4,4'-tetrabromodiphenyl ether, de...

Developing a Fuzzy Logic Model to Predict Asphaltene Precipitation during Natural Depletion based on Experimental Data

Application of Multi Flux Model to Predict Optical Performance of Titanium Dioxide Nanopigments

   The area of nano-pigments is a limitless field with exceptional potential applications in industry, and their application is becoming the focus of many research groups worldwide in recent years due to their outstanding and tunable properties. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles, on the other hand, are among the most widely used pigment particles, and the interest for utiliza...

Fate of coliphage in a wastewater treatment process.

The fate of coliphage in a wastewater treatment plant in the central part of Japan was investigated from March to December 2001. A relative abundance of coliphage, 1000-10,000 PFU/ml determined with three different Escherichia coli strains, was detected in the influent. But, no remarkable seasonal change in the phage concentration in the influent was observed during the ten-month test period. A...