The effects of humic acid on poliovirus type 1 recovery from water by Zeta Plus 60S filters were investigated. The humic acid interfered by preventing virus adsorption to the filters, and the interference increased as a function of the amount of humic acid filtered. Humic acid decreased virus adsorption when filtered before the virus, but did not elute virus which had adsorbed to the filters. T...

One of the most important issues affecting environmental health and sustainable food production is application of organic fertilizers instead of chemical fertilizers. This study set out to investigate the effect of application of soil humic acid and fulvic acid on barley plant. To this end a factorial experiment was carried out on the basis of randomized complete block design with four replicat...

We investigated the effects of turbidity and concentration of humic acid on the steady-state behavior of the blanket, which was coagulated using polyaluminum chloride (PACl) as coagulant. The three-dimensional solid-flux plot was constructed. Based on fixed PACl dosage, the iso-humic-acid solid-flux surfaces stacked that enveloped the feasible regime for the blanket bed. The steady-state point ...

Increasingly, products containing humic substances are appearing in the turf industry market claiming to reduce water and fertilizer use by increasing soil moisture and nutrient availability. Humic acid is the most common humic substance that has been studied, but results have been highly variable (Cooper et al.; 1998).The response of humic acid is difficult to interpret due to confounding effe...

an experiment was conducted in order to evaluate the effects of humic acid spraying on  grain yield and yield components of wheat, in agricultural research and natural resources center of tehran province, in 2010-11. a split-plot layout within randomized complete block design with three replications were used. main plots were three irrigation treatments contains of normal irrigation, non-irriga...

extra use of chemical fertilizers in recent decades had resulted in pollution of water, soil and other environmental recourses. to investigate the effects of humic acid as an organic fertilizer on some yield components of three tomato (lycopersicon esculentum l.) varieties, an experiment was conducted during 2010 growing season at khorasan-e-razavi, ahmadabad suburb of mashhad. experiment was a...

The effect of pH, ionic strength, and cation in solution on the binding of phenanthrene by a soil humic acid in the aqueous phase was determined using fluorescence quenching. The phenanthrene binding coefficient with the dissolved soil humic, Koc, decreased with increasing ionic strength and solution cation valence. At low values of ionic strength, Koc values for this soil humic acid increased ...