Showing papers in "Water Resources and Industry in 2016"

TL;DR: In this paper, a low cost adsorbent (RH) was applied for Rhodamine B (RhB) uptake from aqueous solution, and the results showed that RH is about 1143 times more economical when compared with commercial activated carbon.

TL;DR: A review of the literature discussing the use of cow dung as adsorbent for the removal of metal ions from aqueous solution using batch experiments is presented in this article, where potential health and environmental hazards of metal ion in addition to the kinetic and isothermal models usually assessed to fit the biosorption experimental data were also reviewed.

TL;DR: In this article, the process parameters affecting biosorption were optimized by adopting ANOM approach for maximizing the percentage removal of copper and nickel by growing Aspergillus sp. in batch reactor using Taguchi method.

TL;DR: In this paper, a magnetic γ-Fe 2 O 3 /SiO 2 (M-γFS) nanocomposite was prepared using magnetic carriers as the magnetic carriers and characterized by transmission electron microscope (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Fourier Transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR).

TL;DR: In this article, a 2 4 full factorial experimental design was used to evaluate the effects of four factors considered in the optimization of the oxidative process: concentration of MG, the concentration of Fe 2+ (X 2 ), concentration of H 2 O 2 (X 3 ) and temperature (X 4 ), individual and interaction effects of the factors that influenced the percentage of dye degradation were tested.

TL;DR: In this article, effluents from 11 food processing industries from various sectors were characterized through analysis of physical and chemical parameters, including lead (Pb 2+ ) and cadmium (Cd + ) concentrations.

TL;DR: In this article, the degradation efficiency of titania-coated silica nanoparticles was evaluated by three independent parameters such as catalyst dose, initial dye concentration and reaction time, and the predicted values of degradation efficiency with the experimental values were found to be in good agreement.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study was done to isolate most frequently occurring active strains adapted to the wastewater physical-chemical conditions and having good biodegradation potential, and 10 isolates were selected on the basis of their efficiency in reducing all the three pollution potential parameters i.e BOD, TSS and Oil and grease content.

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential of membrane distillation for desalination of cooling tower blowdown water (CTBD) is investigated, and the feasibility of this technique is tested on laboratory and pilot scale using real cooling tower Blowdown water from Dow Benelux in Terneuzen (Netherlands).

TL;DR: In this article, a comparative investigation for the bioremoval of cyanide from synthetic aqueous solution by Prunus amygdalus (Almond) shell (PAS) and Tectona grandis (Sagwan) leaves (TGL) powder have been performed as a function of solution pH, bioadsorbent dose, contact time and initial cyanide concentration.

TL;DR: In this paper, the activated carbons (ACs) were prepared from guava seeds via two stages activation, and the ACs were characterized by the yield percentage, ash content, moisture content, pH value, adsorption quality of 2,4-dichlorophenol (2, 4-DCP) and surface functional groups.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply a systems approach at an operational mine site to identify uncertainty in water flows to guide decisions about where additional monitoring equipment should be installed to improve the accuracy of the overall site water balance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors formalized a water mass balance framework to quantify all anthropogenic and natural water flows into, water flows inside and effluents out of the industrial parks.

TL;DR: In this article, the economic feasibility of water reuse within a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant was investigated. But the feasibility of the water reuse concept remained unclear because the required investment of 2.5 m€ was high and the discounted payback time of 5 years was long.

TL;DR: In this paper, the E4Water project Dow Benelux BV and Evides Industriewater BV operate a pilot facility to compare both technologies for their application to mildly desalinate a variety of brackish water streams.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new treatment approach, based on nanofiltration, has been demonstrated at industrial scale in a detergent production site in China, which does not discharge any process wash water and recovers all resources out of the rinsing water: both chemicals as surfactants as the water.