Showing papers in "Water Science and Technology in 2020"

TL;DR: This study provides a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art deep learning approaches used in the water industry for generation, prediction, enhancement, and classification tasks, and serves as a guide for how to utilize available deep learning methods for future water resources challenges.

TL;DR: This is the first study that investigated the presence of SARS-CoV-2 viral genome in wastewater, at higher ambient temperature (45 °C), further validating WBE as potential tool in predicting and mitigating outbreaks.

TL;DR: A combination of these three management techniques can be used to synthesize short-term and long-term management strategies that control current cyanobacterial blooms and restore the ecosystem.

TL;DR: The treatment of the heavy metal wastewater with magnesium hydroxy carbonate was successful in decreasing the concentrations of VO2+, Cr3+ and Fe3+ in wastewater.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that acetate was the best substrate among the three different substrates with maximum power density and COD removal of 91 mW/m2 and 77%, respectively, and ohmic losses were dominant in DCMFCs established for all three substrates and concentrations.

TL;DR: The results indicate that incorporating weather-based aeration strategies in the operation of the WWTP improves plant energy efficiency.

TL;DR: The mechanism of heavy metal removal by SRB is introduced, the factors affecting microbial activity and metal removal efficiency are elucidated, and key points for future studies of the SRB process are proposed.

TL;DR: The results demonstrated that the electrochemical process is more efficient at removing dyes in a shorter time than the photolytic process since it generates powerful oxidants like the chlorine molecule, hypochlorous acid, and Hypochlorite on the surface of the anode and initiates a chain reaction to oxidize the dyes molecules.

TL;DR: The result of thermodynamic analysis showed that the adsorption of PS microplastics was a spontaneous endothermic process and exhibited good feasibility in tap water and lake water.

TL;DR: This review addresses the use of modified and cheap materials for antibiotic removal from the environment through several techniques used to remove pollutants.

TL;DR: The magnetic character of the metal ferrites and their composites played an important role in the easy separation and reusability of these materials and result in highly effective, easy to handle and stable heterogeneous photo-Fenton materials for wastewater remediation.

TL;DR: The influence of the macrophyte (wetland plants) component, substrate material, microorganisms, electrode material and hydraulic retention time (HRT) on CW-MFC performance in wastewater treatment and electricity generation is reviewed.

TL;DR: This review paper examines the state-of-the-art in the transformation of raw data into actionable insight, specifically for water resource recovery facility (WRRF) operation.

TL;DR: Electrochemical oxidation is an effective disinfection method for ARB and the electro-Fenton process is a promising technology for the removal of both intracellular and extracellular ARGs in wastewater.

TL;DR: The mechanism and application of several iron-based materials, including ferrous iron (Fe2+), ferric Iron (Fe3+), zero-valentIron (Fe0), nano-sized zero-Valent iron (n Fe0), materials-supported nFe0, and iron-containing compounds for PS activation to degrade refractory organics are reviewed.

TL;DR: An analysis of the operation of 18 wastewater treatment plants based on different technologies in Finland, Canada, Poland, Russia and the United States concluded that the eutrophication potential of treated wastewater to a large extent is conditioned by the applied technology.

TL;DR: The SMART-WATER platform aims to foster water utility companies by enhancing water management and decision-making processes, providing innovative solutions to consumers for smart water utilisation.

TL;DR: The results suggested that the modified preparation method improved greatly the reusability of MNFs-Lac, which made them more suitable to degrade MG in a water environment.

TL;DR: The design and testing of a model predictive controller based on neuro-fuzzy techniques that is capable of estimating the main process variables and providing the right amount of aeration to achieve an efficient and economical operation is described.

TL;DR: It is indicated that complete decolorization of 100 mg/L RB19 by JF4-immobilized beads can be maintained for at least three cycles without much reduction in efficiency, and the pseudo-second-order model best fit the adsorption kinetics data.

TL;DR: It is proven that this load prediction-based control leads to stable operation and meeting effluent quality requirements as an autopilot system, and can be used as early warnings to deliver data-driven operational support to process operators.

TL;DR: Identification of two polymer types in different grain size classes verified the suitability of the developed approach for microplastic analyses on particulate matter such as soils and sediments.

TL;DR: This work is a review of the use of hysteresis to quantify sediment discharge dynamics from the year 1953 to the present day focusing on two topics: the factors that influence hystereresis; and hysteResis quantification.

TL;DR: Self-cleansing models tend to be overfitted, i.e. have a rather high prediction accuracy when applied to the data collected by the authors, but this accuracy deteriorates quickly when applications to the datasets collected by other authors.

TL;DR: The PES/GO-SiO2 membrane exhibited the highest water flux and a 38% increase in oil removal efficiency by comparison to a PES membrane, and displayed the best overall properties in terms of tensile strength, water permeability, and hydrophilicity.

TL;DR: This work deals with the immobilization of TiO2(P25) in chitosan film by using the cross-linking method and characterized its catalytic activity in tetracycline hydrochloride (TC) degradation under UV light.

TL;DR: The health risk in relation to Legionella pneumophila was quantitatively calculated using quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA), based on the assumption of the percentage, and the hazard index exposure to bioaerosol for adult males and females by inhalation were higher than 1.0.

TL;DR: Modified walnut shell (MWS) was obtained using diethylenetriamine through a grafting reaction and its adsorbent was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and elemental analysis and the results showed that the modification was effective.

TL;DR: TheThermodynamic study revealed that the adsorption process was spontaneous and exothermic in nature and Saline water emerged as an efficient eluent for the desorption of adsorbed dye on AC.

TL;DR: The operating conditions of the system were found to be important, and online control of the free ammonia concentration played a crucial role, and the nitrogen removal rate reached 1.8 gN m-2 d1 at 35 °C.