AIMS To develop an anti-microbial filter media using an attached quaternary ammonium compound (QAC) and evaluate its performance under conditions relevant to household drinking water treatment in developing countries. METHODS AND RESULTS Silica sand was coated with dimethyloctadecyl [3-(trimethoxysilyl) propyl] ammonium chloride via covalent silane chemistry. Filter columns packed with coated...

Computational modeling of air filtration is possible by replicating nonwoven nanofibrous meltblown or electrospun filter media with digital representative geometry. This article presents a methodology to create and modify randomly generated fiber geometry intended as twin replica fibrous media. Digital replicas are created using Python scripting Ansys SpaceClaim. The effect stiffness, represent...

In petroleum production, Produced Water Re-Injection (PWRI) has earned much interest among disposal methods of the produced water. However, presence of the contaminants in the produced waters usually results in formation damage in well bores and their surrounding fracture systems. In the present study, modeling of external cake formation on a fracture in unsteady-state conditions i...

nano sio2/hyperbranched polyglycerol (hpg)/so3h catalyst was readily prepared for first time from inexpensive starting materials in aqueous media which catalyzed the synthesis of benzoic acid. ftir spectra, x-ray diffraction (xrd) and transmission electron micrographs (tem) was employed to characterize the properties of the synthesized nano sio2/hpg/so3h. high catalytic activity and ease of rec...

A new configuration of the one stage direct filtration process has been investigated by Prof. Fadel (correspondent author) and his team in Mansoura University, Egypt. In this configuration, deep media with fine gravel particles (size 2-4 mm) has been used under low filtration rate (5-8 m/m/hr). For this system a simplified empirical model is proposed to describe the one stage of direct filtrati...

The performance of filter media for automotive oil filtration is determined according to the Multi Pass test procedure ISO 4548-12. Simulating the Multi Pass test has been an elusive challenge in the past, due to the lack of appropriate models for the loading kinetics of the entire media. For years, simulation of loading single fiber structures is promising to solve the issue by detailed build-...