background: considering the toxic effects of heavy metals and microbial pathogens in industrial wastewaters, it is necessary to treat metal and microbial contaminated wastewater prior to disposal in the environment. the purpose of this study is to assess the removal of heavy metals pollution and microbial contamination from a mixture of municipal and industrial wastewater using membrane bioreac...

Dissipative particle dynamics !DPD" has recently attracted great interest due to its potential to simulate the dynamics of colloidal particles in fluidic devices. In this work, we explore the validity of DPD to reproduce the hydrodynamic interaction between a suspended particle and confining solid walls. We first show that a relatively large Schmidt number of the DPD fluid can be obtained by in...

Until quite recently, theories on thermophoresis of particles predicted very low thermophoretic velocities of metal particles in liquids. This prediction was based on the understanding that the very high thermal conductivities of metals relative to most liquid media resulted in quite low temperature gradients across the metal particle thereby leading to low net force on the particle. In this pa...

The melting of a particle-laden slurry in a cylinder is investigated. The slurry consists of neutrally buoyant ceramic hollow spheres suspended in a paraffin wax. Melt front propagation and heat transfer processes during phase change in this particle-laden material is studied. The numerical analysis employs a particle-diffusive model and the enthalpy method. Experiments are carried out to valid...

We present microparticle image velocimetry measurements of suspended microparticles of diameters from 0.6 to 10 μm undergoing acoustophoresis in an ultrasound symmetry plane in a microchannel. The motion of the smallest particles is dominated by the Stokes drag from the induced acoustic streaming flow, while the motion of the largest particles is dominated by the acoustic radiation force. For a...

Assessment of microplastic impacts in biota is challenging due to the complex behavior test particles and their interactions with other particulates, including microorganisms, environment. To disentangle responses exposure from those suspended solids, both natural must be present system. We evaluated how microplastic, non-plastic particles, biofilms interacted effects on survivorship using acut...

The comparison of simultaneous humidity measurements by the Vaisala RS92 radiosonde and by the Cryogenic Frostpoint Hygrometer (CFH) launched at Alajuela, Costa Rica, during July 2005 reveals a large solar radiation dry bias of the Vaisala RS92 humidity sensor and a minor temperature-dependent calibration error. For soundings launched at solar zenith angles between 10° and 30°, the average dry ...

The electrical double layer surrounding solid particles suspended in water is assumed to be due to a difference in the concentration of the oppositely charged ions of an electrolyte in the enveloping film (i.e. the film of water which adheres to and moves with the particle in an electrical field) and the opposite film. This difference in concentration is generally ascribed to a preferential ads...