The speciation distribution, physico-chemical properties of coagulants, and principles for their further species transformation under various water and wastewater treatment conditions are of paramount importance in coagulation processes. In this paper, the effect of various factors on the speciation transformation of typical inorganic polymer flocculants (IPFs)–polyaluminum chloride (PACl) was ...

We present the results of a principal-components analysis of the Personality Adjective Check List (PACL) at the item level, rather than at the scale level. The PACL was constructed by Strack (1987) to evaluate the personality scales proposed by Millon (1981). Data were obtained from a sample of normal adolescents. A scree test was applied to determine the number of factors to be extracted, and ...

We investigated the effects of turbidity and concentration of humic acid on the steady-state behavior of the blanket, which was coagulated using polyaluminum chloride (PACl) as coagulant. The three-dimensional solid-flux plot was constructed. Based on fixed PACl dosage, the iso-humic-acid solid-flux surfaces stacked that enveloped the feasible regime for the blanket bed. The steady-state point ...

Algogenic organic matter produced by the excess growth of cyanobacteria in semi-closed water areas causes coagulation inhibition in drinking water production. In this study, hydrophilic substances of Microcystis aeruginosa, which were mainly composed of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and RNA, were prepared, and the involvement of these cyanobacterial hydrophilic substances in coagulation inhibition w...

In this study, landfill leachate treatment by coagulation and optimization of process parameters were aimed. Alum (Al2(SO4)3) Poly Aluminum Chloride (PACl) used as coagulants to remove total suspended solids (TSS) from leachate, coagulant dose, reaction time, pH optimized variables. The Box-Behnken, one the response surface methodology designs, was in modeling process. R2 values very high (&amp...

The aim of this study is to develop novel composite coagulants that are versatile and effective in removing natural organic matter from water. Herein, novel polyaluminum chloride-chitosan composite coagulant was prepared by combining the two reagents at different chitosan/aluminum ratio. The coagulation performance was tested using two different water sources (synthetic water containing 10 mg.L...

This study aims at evaluating the impacts of flocculant addition to a submerged membrane bioreactor (SMBR). Three types of common flocculants (FeCl3, PACl and chitosan) were tested based on the performance of organic and nutrients removal, respiration test and fouling control. The data showed that all of the flocculants not only could keep high removal efficiencies of DOC and COD (>90%) compare...

Synthetic fibers enter wastewater treatment plants together with natural fibers, which may affect efficiency, a fact not considered in previous studies. Therefore, the aim of present study was to evaluate efficiency coagulation/flocculation process for removal mixture textile from different water matrices. Natural and synthetic (100 mg/L; cotton, polyacrylonitrile, polyamide) were added matrix,...

Slaughterhouse wastewater contains various and high amounts of organic matter (e.g., proteins, blood, fat and lard). In order to produce an effluent suitable for stream discharge, chemical coagulation and electrocoagulation techniques have been particularly explored at the laboratory pilot scale for organic compounds removal from slaughterhouse effluent. The purpose of this work was to investig...

Pacidamycins are a family of uridyl tetra/pentapeptide antibiotics that act on the translocase MraY to block bacterial cell wall assembly. To elucidate the biosynthetic logic of pacidamcyins, a putative gene cluster was identified by 454 shotgun genome sequencing of the producer Streptomyces coeruleorubidus NRRL 18370. The 31-kb gene cluster encodes 22 proteins (PacA-V), including highly dissoc...