Rapid in situ degradation of chlorinated solvents present as nonaqueous phase liquids (NAPL) can be accomplished using reactive zerovalent nanoiron particles. Prior studies have shown that nanoiron transport in the subsurface is limited, and successful delivery of the nanoiron is essential for effective remediation. Here, the physical properties of bare and modified nanoiron are measured, and l...

Due to the strong development of nanotechnologies, ultrafine particles could represent a growing hazard for workers health. When it is not possible to reduce the risk at its source, filtration systems are one of the means used to limit the exposure to hazardous substances such as airborne particles. The aim of this study is to measure the penetration of nanoparticles on a very large diameter ra...

In this Article, we demonstrate the influence of effluent particles (in the range of <50 μm) on ozone degradation of trace organic contaminants (TrOCs) and effluent-quality parameters. Secondary effluent was filtered through different pore-size filters and ozonated at various ozone doses. Degradation of both ozone-reactive and ozone-refractory contaminants improved following ozonation of efflue...

Dynamics of cigarette smoke particles in high air change rate chambers like cars is investigated and the RSP concentration during and after smoking the cigarette is predicted in this study. This model is based on the mass balance equation. The generation and removal rate of RSP for various particle sizes are specified from the cigarette emission profile, ventilation rate, filtration efficiency,...

The traditional theoretical model is not suitable for the simulation of oil particle filtration process a composite filter due to its huge difference in fiber diameter. In this paper, concept dispersion σ was introduced into mathematical describing dynamic filter. results show that good agreement with experimental data. As packing density constant, higher dispersion, better performance is. addi...

The bioavailability and transport of particle-reactive pollutants are influenced by their partitioning between dissolved and particulate phases. We explored the importance of particle complexation to the arsenic cycle in an urban lake (Upper Mystic Lake, eastern MA, USA) that experiences arsenic remobilization from contaminated sediments during seasonal hypolimnetic anoxia. Particle size distri...

In human motion analysis, the joint estimation of appearance, body pose and location parameters is not always tractable due to its huge computational cost. In this paper, we propose a Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for addressing the problem of human pose estimation and tracking. The advantage of the proposed approach is that RaoBlackwellization allows the state variables to be splitted into...

We present an application of SPH to saturated soil problems. Herein, the standard SPH formulation was improved to model saturated soil. It is shown that the proposed formulation could yield several advantages such as: it takes into account the pore-water pressure in an accurate manner, it automatically satisfies the dynamics boundary conditions between submerged soil and water, and it reduced t...