Accurate knowledge of the transport and deposition behavior for pathogenic Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts is needed to assess contamination and protect water resources. Experimental and modeling studies were undertaken to examine the roles of attachment, detachment, and straining on oocyst transport and retention. Saturated column studies were conducted using Ottawa aquifer sands (U.S. Silica, ...

Understanding the dynamics of fixed-bed adsorption columns for modeling is a demanding task due to the strong nonlinearities in the equilibrium isotherms, interference effects of competition of solutes for adsorbent sites, mass transfer resistances between fluid phase and solid phase, and fluid-dynamic dispersion phenomena. The interplay of these effects produces steep concentration fronts, whi...

Figure 1: The first all-atom structure of the complete HIV virus capsid [1], a breakthrough enabled by CUDA technology in NAMD, VMD, and the Blue Waters supercomputer at Illinois. The first scientific breakthrough achieved with the Blue Waters supercomputer at the University of Illinois was the determination of the structure of the complete HIV capsid in atomic-level detail, a collaborative eff...

Dimensional modeling is a database design technique developed specifically for designing data warehouses. Its objectives are to create database structures that end users can easily understand and write queries against, and to optimize query performance. It has become the predominant approach to designing data warehouses in practice and has proven to be a major breakthrough in developing databas...

in this work, the adsorption of carbon dioxide from model flue gas on different adsorbents has been investigated. using simplified modeling, parameters such as the total mass transfer coefficient and the effective diffusivity have been determined. experiments were carried out in two sections: firstly, adsorption of pure carbon dioxide on different adsorbents was measured at pressures ranging fr...

Pain is one of the most common and often most feared symptoms in patients with cancer. Ongoing or progressive pain is physically debilitating and has a marked impact on quality of life. During their illness, at least 70% of patients will experience pain sufficiently severe to require chronic opioid treatment. Moreover, Breakthrough Pain (BTP) consists in transitory exacerbations of pain that oc...

Application of Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) in adsorption process has been studied for the advanced treatment of municipal and industrial wastewater. Because of entering poisonous compounds such as furfural, phenol and sulfides into the oily wastewater of Tehran refinery, biological aeration basins of wastewater treatment unit may not have the desired performance of COD reductio...