In the temperature range of 10 to 80 ºC and in a batch digester, a typical activated sludge was digested aerobically. Reaction rate constants were determined by measuring the amounts of volatiles removed from the suspended solids at different time intervals during the process. The maximum value of the reaction rate constant (0.45 d-1) occurred in the temperature...

Abstract Rivers are dynamic systems that respond to various physicochemical characteristics. In this review, we focused on the most important parameters influenced zooplankton composition and diversity in rivers, including water temperature, dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand, hydrogen ion concentration, electrical conductivity, salinity, total solids, suspended turbidity, hardness, ca...

Physicochemical characteristics and heavy metal levels in water samples from five river systems in central part of Delta State, Nigeria were investigated to access the quality status of the rivers. All the watersheds selected for study were well distributed and possessed similar geology, climate, soil, and vegetation characteristics. Studies on the water samples collected from the rivers showed...

The specific growth rates of four species of lactobacilli decreased linearly with increases in the concentration of dissolved solids (sugars) in liquid growth medium. This was most likely due to the osmotic stress exerted by the sugars on the bacteria. The reduction in growth rates corresponded to decreased lactic acid production. Medium pH was another factor studied. As the medium pH decreased...

Suspended solids or sediments can be pollutants in rivers, but they are also an important component of lotic food webs. Suspended sediment data for rivers were obtained from a United States-wide water quality database for 622 stations. Data for particulate nitrogen, suspended carbon, discharge, watershed area, land use, and population were also used. Stations were classified by United States En...

Assessment of environmental Impact was established to provide and evaluated the background picture of water quality of Wadi El-Natrun depression Lakes water. Physico-chemical characteristics (air and water temperatures, electrical conductivity (EC), total solids (TS), total dissolved solids (TDS), total suspended solids (TSS), salinity, pH, dissolved oxygen (DO), chemical oxygen demand (COD), C...

Agarose beads containing immobilized enzymes or affinity ligands have been made magnetically responsive by adsorbing freshly precipitated magnetite on their surface. These beads are used for affinity adsorption of proteins from complex mixtures containing suspended solids. The magnetically responsive beads and the unwanted (diamagnetic) solids are then separated by magnetic filtration. This mag...

background: soluble microbial products (smps) have an effective role on fouling of membrane in bioreactors (mbrs). the aim of this study was to survey the role of smps on mbrs used in treating municipal wastewater. materials: lowry and phenol sulfuric acid methods were used to measure carbohydrates concentrations and protein content, respectively. biochemical oxygen demand (bod), chemical oxyge...

This paper presents the study of a mixed porous media composed of expanded perlite and a nonwoven needle-punched geotextile used to reduce the suspended solids load and concentration in urban runoff. Laboratory procedures were designed to quantify the suspended solids removal efficiency and variation in time of filtration rate. Different grain-size distributions of expanded perlite, diverse sus...