An improved chemical regeneration of the granular activated carbon (GAC) exhausted by the color (pigments and pollutants) from citric acid fermentation solution (CAF) was investigated. In the experiments, improved means were adopted to advance the traditional chemical regenerating method and the adsorption capacity of the first time renewed GAC is 103% of original GAC. Using oxidan...

The studies on removal of Vanadium were conducted using Granulated Activated Carbon (GAC) in combination with Chelating agents. Ethylene di-amine Tetra Acetic Acid (EDTA) and Nitrilo Tri Acetic Acid (NTA) at 25oC. The adsorption Efficiency was studied in the pH range of 2-8. The results reveals that Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms are followed during adsorption process with the chelating agen...

BACKGROUND The primary role of granular activated carbon (GAC) in water treatment is to adsorb organic compounds that could potentially harm humans or impart tastes and odors. Several hundred water utilities in the United States and Europe use GAC for this purpose. While the GAC is in service, however, it can also accumulate metals, either by precipitation or by adsorption of metal-organic comp...

Application of Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) in adsorption process has been studied for the advanced treatment of municipal and industrial wastewater. Because of entering poisonous compounds such as furfural, phenol and sulfides into the oily wastewater of Tehran refinery, biological aeration basins of wastewater treatment unit may not have the desired performance of COD reduction. In this st...

AND YUEFENG F. XIE aloacetic acids (HAAs) and trihalomethanes (THMs) are the major disinfection by-products (DBPs) found in chlorinated drinking water. Nine species of HAAs are commonly found in chlorinated water: monochloroacetic acid (ClAA), monobromoacetic acid (BrAA), dichloroacetic acid (Cl2AA), bromochloroacetic acid (BrClAA), dibromoacetic acid (Br2AA), trichloroacetic acid (Cl3AA), brom...

The adsorption of three pharmaceuticals, namely, acetaminophen, diclofenac, and sulfamethoxazole onto granular activated carbon (GAC), was investigated. To study competitive adsorption, both dynamic and steady-state adsorption experiments were conducted by careful selection of pharmaceuticals with various affinities and molecular size. The effective diffusion coefficient of the adsorbate was in...

heavy metals in water resource are one of the most important environmental problems of countries. chromium is considered as one of the important environmental pollutants due to its toxicity considered as water contaminant that may disturb metabolic activity. this research aims to study the potential of jujube fruit powder for low cost adsorption of cr (vi) in compression with granular activated...

Application of Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) in adsorption process has been studied for the advanced treatment of municipal and industrial wastewater. Because of entering poisonous compounds such as furfural, phenol and sulfides into the oily wastewater of Tehran refinery, biological aeration basins of wastewater treatment unit may not have the desired performance of COD reductio...

To show that an adsorbing biofilm carrier (GAC) can be advantageous for atrazine bioremediation over a non-adsorbing carrier, fluidized bed (FB) reactors were operated under atrazine limiting concentrations using Pseudomonas sp. strain ADP as the atrazine degrading bacteria. The following interrelated subjects were investigated: 1) atrazine adsorption to GAC under conditions of atrazine partial...

Pyrene removal by polycation-montmorillonite (MMT) composites and granulated activated carbon (GAC) in the presence of humic acid (HA) was examined. Pyrene, HA, and sorbent interactions were characterized by FTIR, fluorescence and zeta measurements, adsorption, and column filtration experiments. Pyrene binding coefficients to the macromolecules were in the order of PVPcoS (poly-4-vinylpiridine-...