Physical and biological treatment technology are considered a highly feasible economic way to treat slaughterhouse wastewater. To achieve the desired effluent quality for disposal or reuse, various technological options were reviewed. However, most practical operations accompanied by several advantages disadvantages. Nevertheless, due presence of biodegradable organic matter in waste, anaerobic...

A modelling procedure with a time discretisation of 1 min is developed in order to study and simulate the kinetics of formation of total trihalomethanes (TTHM) in water treatment plants. This methodology was applied on two significant processing units of Athens (Galatsi Treatment Plant-GTP, Menidi Treatment Plant-MTP). The fundamental concept of the model was based on the representation of the ...

A model has been presented for the coarsening of the dispersed phase of liquid-liquid two-phase mixtures in Cu-Pb alloys under the effect of a high magnetic field (HMF). The numerical results show that the evolution of size distribution is the result of several factors and the diffusional growth, the collision-coagulation of the Cu-rich droplets (gravity sedimentation and Marangoni migration), ...

BACKGROUND The clinical course of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is frequently complicated by thromboembolic events and may involve the arterial and venous systems. Although not uniformly documented, several studies document substantial alterations in markers of coagulation and fibrinolysis in patients with IBD. METHODS 45 patients with IBD (31 UC,14 CD) were included in the s...

We use a stochastic approach in order to investigate the production and evolution of aerosols in Titan’s atmosphere. The simulation initiates from the benzene molecules observed in the thermosphere and follows their evolution to larger aromatic structures through reaction with gas phase radical species. Aromatics are allowed to collide and provide the first primary particles, which further grow...

Major waterborne cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis outbreaks associated with contaminated drinking water have been linked to evidence of suboptimal treatment. Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts are particularly more resistant than Giardia lamblia cysts to removal and inactivation by conventional water treatment (coagulation, sedimentation, filtration and chlorine disinfection); therefore, extensive ...

A 41-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with leg ulcers and ecchymoses on her ears that began to develop one month prior. The leg ulcers began as painful, fluid-filled blisters and evolved into ulcers with a black crust. The lesions had appeared and resolved several times over the previous three years, but she did not seek medical attention. She took prednisone intermittently ...

We have calculated an evolution of protoplanetary disk from an extensive set of initial conditions using a time-dependent model capable of simultaneously keeping track of the global evolution of gas and water-ice. A number of simplifications and idealizations allows for an embodiment of gas-particle coupling, coagulation, sedimentation, and evapora-tion/condensation processes. We have shown tha...

Accepted 23 April 1998 The patient was a 39-year-old woman who, after a brisk movement of the head, noticed pain in the cervical region. Twenty hours later she began to have swelling of the left superior limb. She was treated with muscle relaxants and anti-inflammatory agents with little improvement. Twenty days later the painless swelling persisted and she was admitted to the hospital. Physica...

The occurrence of four beta blockers, one antiepileptic drug, one lipid regulator, four anti-inflammatories, and three fluoroquinolones was studied in a river receiving sewage effluents. All compounds but two of the fluoroquinolones were observed in the water above their limit of quantification concentrations. The highest concentrations (up to 107 ng L(-1)) of the compounds were measured during...