In this study, the adsorption of synthetic landfill leachate onto four kinds of activated carbon has been investigated. From the equilibrium and kinetics experiments, it was observed that coal based PAC presented the highest organic pollutants removal efficiency (54%), followed by coal based GAC (50%), wood based GAC (33%) and wood based PAC (14%). The adsorption equilibrium of PAC and GAC was ...

Bioretention, also known as rain garden, allows stormwater to soak into the ground through a soil-based medium, leading to removal of particulate and dissolved pollutants and reduced peak flows. Although soil organic matter (SOM) is efficient at sorbing many pollutants, amending the bioretention medium with highly effective adsorbents has been proposed to optimize pollutant removal and extend b...

The effective removal of o-cresol is currently both an environmental and economic challenge. ZnO is not only an efficient photocatalyst but is also cost effective, as its photoabsorption can extend from the ultraviolet (UV) to the visible range thereby allowing the use of inexpensive visible light sources, such as sunlight. The principal objective of the present work is to investigate the visib...

The Cu/Al2O3 catalyzed ozonation for degrading an endocrine disruptor—alachlor in water was investigated. The Cu/Al2O3 powders were coated on a cordierite honeycomb column, which was taken as the reactor of catalytic ozonation of alachlor. Additional uncatalyzed experiments were carried out and the results were compared to those of the catalytic runs. The experimental results demonstrated that ...

The photochemical and photo-Fenton oxidation of 1,3-dichloro-2-propanol was performed in a batch reactor, at room temperature, using UV radiation, H2O2 as oxidant, and Fenton’s reagent. The effect of the oxidative agent’s initial concentration was investigated as well as the effect of the initial concentration of Fe(II) by following the target compound degradation, the total organic carbon remo...

[1] To study cycling of organic fractions in the ocean, relative abundances and radioand stable-carbon isotope measurements of total lipid extract, acid-soluble, and acidinsoluble fractions of suspended particulate organic carbon (POC) were made. Changes in relative abundances occurred mostly in the upper 1000 m of the water column, with a decrease in total lipid extract and the acid-soluble fr...

Anaerobic digestion is an engineered methanogenic decomposition of organic matter under oxygen-free conditions and involves a mixed consortium of different species of anaerobic microoganisms that transform organic matter into biogas. The process is successfully used for the treatment of municipal sludge, animal manure, industrial sludge, and industrial and municipal wastewaters. Applications of...

throughout the present study, similar horizons (a, ab and b1) from deciduous forest, coniferous forest and rangeland types of land uses were selected, and the percentage of water stable aggregates in them measured. in each class of stable aggregate at the horizon a, free light fraction, free-particulate organic matter, intra-aggregate of particle organic mather (pom), and clay + silt complexes ...

The present study focuses on effects of operational parameters on electrochemical wastewater treatment for synthetic wastewater. Electro-oxidation has emerged as one of the advanced oxidation processes gaining more attention because it offers many distinctive advantages over other conventional methods such as versatility, high treatment efficiency, safety, amenability of automation and cost eff...