To meet surging water demands, water reuse is being sought as an alternative to traditional water resources. However, contamination of water resources by trace organic compounds (TOrCs), including pharmaceuticals, personal care products, disinfection byproducts, and industrial chemicals is of increasing concern. These compounds are not readily removed by conventional water treatment processes a...

The optimal synthesis and design of thermal power plants is best addressed using mathematical optimization techniques. However, conventional optimization methods require the user to manually define a priori the potential solution space through the modeling of a superstructure, which is a timeconsuming, complex, and error-prone task. More importantly, the final superstructure model can not guara...

A pumped bed-membrane bioreactor (PB-MBR) combining powdered activated carbon (PAC) adsorption with bacterial degradation was studied for the purification of tap water, spiked with 2 mg/l of phenanthrene, to sub-ppm levels. The feedwater was supplemented with nitrogen and phosphorous to reach a COD:N:P ratio of 100:10:1. PAC concentration was maintained at 5 g/l. Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) flat-sh...

Drinking water biofiltration offers the possibility of removal trace level micropollutants from source water. Sand, granular activated carbon (GAC), GAC sandwich (a layer loaded in middle sand bed), and anthracite-sand dual biofilters were set-up duplicate at bench-scale to mimic filtration process real drinking treatment works. During 3-month system operation, five antibiotics (amoxicillin, cl...

The EU-DEMO reactor is supposed to undergo a pulsed duty cycle under normal conditions, which might challenge the qualified lifetime of main equipment inducing undue thermal and mechanical cycling loads. Moreover, during power operation it not possible exclude occurrence plasma overpower transients that jeopardize structural integrity plasma-facing components. In this context, University Palerm...

One way to overcome the scarcity of clean water through sustainable approach is by utilizing a solar distillation system. This easy-to-use technology adopting tubular distillation. The three main components, which are most essential for producing amount permeate, collector, and heat exchanger (HE). study aims determine performance device equipped with HE using parabolic trough collector (PTC). ...