Background and Objective: Formaldehyde is a toxic volatile organic compound, which its removal from polluted air is essential. One of the techniques available for removing such compounds is photocatalytic degradation. The aim of this study was to investigate the photocatalytic degradation of gaseous formaldehyde on TiO2 nanoparticles coated on reduced graphene oxide Materials and Methods...

Hydrofluoric acid has been used as a novel stripping agent for molybdenum (VI) after its extraction with Cyanex 301. In the extraction steps effects of parameters such as type and initial concentration of acid, type of diluent, extractant concentration, metal concentration and temperature have been studied. In thestripping step, the effects of various stripping agents on stripping efficiency ha...

Background and purpose: Trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids are formed through chlorination of waters containing natural organic matters and pose potential health problems. So, it is necessary to remove humic acid as the most significant natural organic matter in water. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of catalytic ozonation in removal of humic acid in presence of local...

Backgrounds and Objectives: Reactive dyestuff has potential of toxicity, carcinogenesis and mutagenesis for mammals and aquatic organisms. The current physical and chemical methods such as adsorption, coagulation, precipitation, filtration and ... can been used for removing of dyestuff. Biological treatment which is effective and economic for decontamination of dyestuff wastewaters was preferre...

Abstract Background and purpose: Natural zeolites are widely used for the purification of water and wastewater. Nevertheless the selectivity of clinoptilolite (a common zeolite mineral) for cadmium is known to be particularly low. In order to enhance the zeolites’ sorption capacity for cadmium, we treated natural clinoptilolite with sulfuric acid solutions and investigated the sorption of ca...