The changes in triazine and acetamide concentrations in water during natural and artificial treatment by bank filtration, ozonation, filtration, and chlorination were measured at the well field and drinking water treatment plant of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. The city’s groundwater supply is affected by induced infiltration and transport of triazines and acetamide herbicides from the Platte River i...

After human consumption, pharmaceutically active substances can be excreted and enter the effluent treatment facilities. Often degradation in sewage and water treatment and the environment is incomplete, resulting in the formation of transformation products. Within the Pharmas project (EU grant agreement no. 265346) three anticancer drugs were evaluated for the formation of stable transformatio...

Removal of nine pharmaceutical compounds--acetaminophen (AAF), antipyrine (ANT), caffeine (CAF), carbamazepine (CRB), diclofenac (DCF), hydrochlorothiazide (HCT), ketorolac (KET), metoprolol (MET) and sulfamethoxazole (SMX)-spiked in a primary sedimentation effluent of a municipal wastewater has been studied with sequential aerobic biological and ozone advanced oxidation systems. Combinations o...

An ecotoxicity test with Eisenia fetida was performed to monitor the removal of diesel and toxicity variation during the ozonation process. The three-dimensional (3-D) cell test was introduced for the monitoring of the ozonation process, and the removal rate based on total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPHs) mass was about 95% near the ozone inlet ports. This high removal rate might be caused by the ...

Ozonation of wheat grain is a quick and easy process that could be realized during the storage. The ozone is in direct contact with the grain and modifies immediately the properties of the wheat. Stability and resistance of dough were increased with ozonation at 40 ppm in comparative with control sample. The results showed a gradual increase in specific volume of balady bread according to the t...

In this study, a new strategy in catalytic ozonation removal method for degradation of phenol from industrial wastewater was investigated. Magnetic carbon nano composite as a novel catalyst was synthesized, characterized and then used in the catalytic ozonation process (COP) and compared with the single ozonation process (SOP). The influential parameters were all investigated. The results showe...

This study investigates the application of novel natural and plasma-treated iron (III) oxide-hydroxide (limonite) catalysts on degradation/mineralization sulfasalazine (SSZ) antibiotic by ozone-based advanced oxidation processes (AOPs). The limonite nanostructures were prepared non-precursor, environmentally friendly, fast glow discharge plasma technology under oxygen (PTL/O2) oxygen/argon (PTL...