Background & objectives: Because of its very high solubility, nitrate penetrates easily into soil and underground waters. Surface waters such as lakes, reservoirs, and rivers are exposed to nitrate pollution. Photocatalytic processes have a high potential for nitrate removal due to complete oxidation, lack of formation of multi-cycle metabolites and the availability of catalysts. The purpose of...

Background: Phosphorus is an indispensable element for the growth of animals and plants. There are several environmental problems related to phosphate; therefore, the technical and economic methods of removing phosphate are of great importance. This study evaluated the efficiency of polyaniline/Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 magnetic nanocomposite in removing phosphate from aqueous environments. Methods: The...

this study was organized to investigate the effects of domestic and industrial effluents on lighvan chai water quality using macroinvertebrates community and the concentration of nitrat and phosphate. based on persampling results, seven sampling site were selected. aamples were collected in april, may and june 2010. seventeen families of macrobentics were found in lighvan chai river and siimoli...

A pyrrhotite and sulfur-circulating packed bed reactor (PS-CPBR) was constructed to study the removal process mechanism of NO3−-N PO43−-P with different electron donors. The results showed that performance mixed donors (pyrrhotite sulfur) superior single donor (pyrrhotite). optimum conditions in PS-CPBR were a hydraulic retention time (HRT) 12 h C/N 0, average efficiency 100% 86.39%. sulfur abl...

conclusions the results of this study show that it is possible to remove nitrate, and its intermediates from waste water. regarding the desirability of the process, the field scale study is proposed. results the results showed that by applying electric current of 0.14 a for 120 minutes, the nitrate content would reduce down to 97%. the obtained r2 for the nitrate removal model was higher than 0...

Application of Pistacia atlantica Leaves Powder as Natural Material To Remove Nitrate and Phosphate Ions From Domestic Wastewater by Characterization, Bio-removal, Phytotoxicity StudiesObaida Alhajali1* , Adnan Ali-Nizam1 Rasha Almostafa2 1Damascus University, Department Plant Biology, Damascus, Syria.2International University for Science Technology, General Analytical Chemistry, Syria. Abstrac...

Tile drainage is the major source of nitrate in the upper Midwest, and end-of-tile removal techniques such as wood chip bioreactors have been installed that allow current farming practices to continue, with nitrate removed through denitrification. There have been few multiyear studies of bioreactors examining controls on nitrate removal rates. We evaluated the nitrate removal performance of two...