Adequate infiltration through Permeable Interlocking Concrete Pavements (PICPs) is critical to their hydraulic and stormwater treatment performance. Infiltration is affected by clogging caused by the trapping of fines in the PICP surface, which, over time, reduces treatment performance. Clogging can be reduced by periodic maintenance such as vacuum sweeping and/or pressure washing. Maintenance ...

The infiltration rate and therefore the principal function of a sand based vertical flow constructed wetland (VFCW) is influenced by the content of suspended solids (SS) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) of the waste water supply. In this study there were three operating conditions defined as “No Clogging”; “Partly Clogging” and “Clogging”. Investigations on 21 VFCWs approved analytical differen...

The Düsseldorf waterworks have been using riverbank filtration since 1870 with bank filtration as the most important source for public water supply in this densely populated and industrialised region. There have been many threats to this supply in the last few decades—e.g. poor river water quality, heavy clogging of the riverbed, accidental pollution—which had to be overcome. First field studie...

Raingardens are becoming an increasingly popular technology for urban stormwater treatment, however, their hydraulic performance is known to reduce due to clogging from deposition of finegrained sediments on the surface. This impacts on their capacity to treat urban runoff. It has been recently hypothesised that plants can help to mitigate the effect of surface clogging on infiltration. A conce...

This review reflects the status (in early 1973) of the problem of producing photoemitters and secondary and field emitters based on a new principle, that of obtaining semiconductor structures with negative electron affinity (ΝΕΑ). The energy level scheme of the surface region of a semiconductor with ΝΕΑ is examined, as well as the conditions for its realization. The main theoretical concepts of...

BACKGROUND Intravascular brachytherapy is being applied more and more in patients with coronary artery disease for the prevention of restenosis subsequent to balloon angioplasty, in particular after stent implantation. Several radiation sources (beta- and gamma-emitters) are available in clinical routine. It was the purpose of this study to compare the radiation doses at the level of the advent...

• Potential for AI techniques to detect clayey clogging in pipejacking is explored. Data decomposition into feature-based sub-series accentuates their features. The use of slurry density, torque and speed can be useful detecting clogging. ‘Clogging’ a common issue encountered during tunnelling soils which impede tunnel excavation, cause unplanned downtimes lead significant additional project co...

Abstract Clogging of submerged entry nozzle (SEN) during continuous casting steel is an undesirable phenomenon leading to different problems like flow blockage, slag entrainment, nonuniform solidification, etc. A transient numerical model for clogging based on Eulerian-Lagrangian approach was developed and it covers the main steps clogging: (a) formation first oxide layer by chemical reactions ...

Mass spectrometry (MS) is the enabling technology for proteomics and metabolomics. However, dramatic improvements in both sensitivity and throughput are still required to achieve routine MS-based single cell proteomics and metabolomics. Here, we report the silicon-based monolithic multinozzle emitter array (MEA) and demonstrate its proof-of-principle applications in high-sensitivity and high-th...