BACKGROUND In the Chinese traditional medicine, plant of Agastache rugosa (Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Kuntze (A. rugosa) has been used to treat nausea, vomiting and dispel damp. However, currently, few reports about the chemical constituents, especially the non-volatile components of A. rugosa are available. METHODS Through separation with various column chromatographies to elucidate the chemical co...

Slaughterhouse wastewater contains various and high amounts of organic matter (e.g., proteins, blood, fat and lard). In order to produce an effluent suitable for stream discharge, chemical coagulation and electrocoagulation techniques have been particularly explored at the laboratory pilot scale for organic compounds removal from slaughterhouse effluent. The purpose of this work was to investig...

hlorine is the most widely used oxidant in the United States for water disinfection. But chlorine reacts with the natural organic matter (NOM) that remains after treatment and forms halogenated by-products. Only some of these by-products have been identified, such as trihalomethanes (THMs) and haloacetic acids (HAAs), which are suspected to be human carcinogens. In 1979 the US Environmental Pro...

There are two major ways to treat wastewater; it is either through chemical or non-chemical treatment. Both improve water quality, but do not make water safe for domestic use. Most firms or companies use coagulation treatment or chemical treatment. But the problem for this treatment is the selection of the best chemical to be used; it is expensive and frequent dosage adjustments are required to...

Surface charge density studies as well as characterizations of coagulated dye sludge were investigated to explain the mechanism which takes place during removal of dyes from effluents by chemical coagulation. A simple laboratory model was used to compare two commercially used textile azo dyes: CI “Reactive Black 5” and “Acid Black 1” that were coagulated with synthetic primary coagulants have b...

The effect of pH, agitation speed and coagulant dosage on the coagulation performance of aluminium sulfate with respect to the treatment of Medjerda water was investigated in this paper. The measurement of residual aluminium speciation was also conducted. The evaluation of treatment efficiency of the optimization of coagulation process while was determined by measuring the reduction of turbidit...

Limited available water resources have rendered wastewater reuse an important issue to specialists in most developed countries, today. The current study works on membrane filtration for treatment of industrial wastewater. By comparing the two methods of membrane bioreactor (MBR) and hybrid membrane electro bioreactor (MEBR) processes, it finds that earlier fouling in the membrane occurs in the ...

In previous works, a low-cost predisinfection column that combined coagulation-flocculation and GAC filtration was proposed for combination with electrodisinfection in the successful treatment of highly faecal polluted surface water. this work, is adapted pore water by transforming coagulation chamber into chemical reactor lime replacing filter ion exchange resins. This system can soften water,...

This paper reports on the application of Artificial Neural Network techniques to coagulation control in drinking water treatment plants. The coagulation process involves many complex physical and chemical phenomena which are difficult to model using traditional methods. The amount of coagulant ensuring optimal treatment efficiency has been shown experimentally to be non-linearly correlated to r...