A physicochemical study for the treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater was performed. Objective of the laboratory investigation was to study the removal of color, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), turbidity and phenol and bring them up to the allowable limits for reuse purposes. Efficiency of coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, sa...

Hawaii is the only state in the USA that grows, processes, and roasts coffee. Coffee processing, however, poses some challenges. One is the processing water, which must be treated, and should be re-used. We surveyed and collected several coffee processing water samples, both influent and effluent, from four small-scale (2-5 ha) coffee farms in Kona on Hawaii (Big Island), and from a large (1200...

Body dysmorphic disorder an obsessive-compulsive and related disorder that is common and usually causes substantial distress and impairment in psychosocial functioning. is associated with markedly poor quality of and rates of suicidal ideation and behavior. The pharmacologic approach is a serotonin reuptake inhibitor, often at relatively high doses; serotonin reuptake inhibitors are also recomm...

Hospital wastewater contains pathogenic agents and hazardous compounds; so, it will cause many risks on environmental and human health of different communities. The aim of this research was to investigate the efficiency of hospital wastewater treatment plant in north of Iran. This cross-sectional descriptive research was done on four hospital wastewater treatment plant in north of Iran during 2...

The textile dyeing and printing units in Sanganer town, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Discharge a huge volume of mostly untreated textile dye wastewater (10,000-15,000kl/day) into various pools and drain adjoining the textile printing units. A number of azo dyes are used in textile printing industries, As a result. The textile waste waters are loaded with them, along with other chemicals used durin...

Water quality monitoring is an important aspect of water management concerning to the pollution control. The removal of biodegradable organic substances is a very important aspect of evaluation the treatment efficiency in a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). The amount of oxygen consumed by microorganisms to oxidise organic substances is characterised by biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), a widel...

Wireless sensor nodes have many compelling applications such as smart buildings, medical implants, and surveillance systems. However, existing devices are bulky, measuring >1cm3, and they are hampered by short lifetimes and fail to realize the “smart dust” vision of [1]. Smart dust requires a mm3-scale, wireless sensor node with perpetual energy harvesting. Recently two application-specific imp...

In the monitoring of pollutants in an aquatic environment, it is important to preserve water quality safety. Among the available analysis methods, the microbial fuel cell (MFC) sensor has recently been used as a sustainable and on-line electrochemical microbial biosensor for biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and toxicity, respectively. However, the effect of the background organic matter concentr...