The purpose of this study was to compare 8-hydroxyquinoline -5-sulphonic acid (QSA) and its 7nitro derivative (NQSA) loaded on F-400 GAC as a suitable adsorbent material for adsorption of Cu ions in aqueous solutions. Batch experiments were performed to evaluate effect of various parameters like pH, contact time, temperature, agitation speed, etc. Kinetic studies were done which showed 90.14% r...

The Rietvlei Water Treatment Plant was extended with a granular activated carbon (GAC) filtration system after an exhaustive series of tests, which were started in 1994. Upon commissioning towards the middle of 1999, a year of close monitoring followed to measure the GAC performance at full-scale. After verification that the GAC does indeed ensure a high quality product under all conditions, th...

this study evaluates the effectiveness of adsorption process by granular activated carbon (gac) compared with a novel formulation of coagulation - flocculation process for dye removal from textile wastewater. in this regard, acidic, reactive, disperse and direct red dye are used to prepare the synthetic dye. dominant wave length for each dye is determined by spectrophotometeric method. using ga...

Chlorine dioxide is widely used as a pre-oxidant and disinfectant but it has the disadvantage of inducing the formation of the inorganic by-products chlorites and chlorates. It is therefore of interest to decrease the chlorine dioxide demand and oxidation, and/or removal of natural organic matter (NOM). The objective of this study was to estimate the efficiency of the adsorption of oxidised and...

Granular wood-derived biochar (BC) was compared to granular activated carbon (GAC) for the treatment and nutrient recovery of real wastewater in both batch and column studies. Batch adsorption studies showed that BC material had a greater adsorption capacity at the high initial concentrations of total chemical oxygen demand (COD-T) (1200 mg L(-1)), PO4 (18 mg L(-1)), and NH4 (50 mg L(-1)) compa...

In this study, adsorption of ten environmentally halogenated aliphatic synthetic organic compounds (SOCs) by a pristine graphene nanosheet (GNS) and a reduced graphene oxide (rGO) was examined, and their adsorption behaviors were compared with those of a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) and a granular activated carbon (GAC). In addition, the impacts of background water components (i.e., na...

in this study two identical anaerobic completely mixed fluidized bed reactors with gac and sand media were employed for cod & phenol removal. at loading rate of 1.6 g phenol l-1d-1, the efficiency of phenol removal in gac & sand reactors were 97.7% & 74%, respectively. at high loading rate of phenol (6.09 g phenol i: 1d1) the efficiency of phenol removal in gac reactor was better than 95%. in g...

Paracetamol adsorption in acidic, neutral and basic media on three activated carbons with different chemistry surfaces was studied. A granular activated carbon (GAC) was prepared from coconut shell; starting from this sample, an oxidized activated carbon (GACo) was obtained by treating the GAC with a boiling solution of 6 M nitric acid, so to generate a greater number of oxygenated surface grou...

Nitrate contamination of water resources and the growing concentration of nitrate endanger human health and the environment and considering its reduction strategies from water resources is important. The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of removal of nitrate from aqueous solutions using granular activated carbon from grape wood coated with iron nanoparticles. The results sho...

During drinking water treatment, advanced oxidation process (AOP) with O3 and H2O2 may result in by-products, residual BrO3?. The containing BrO3? often flows into subsequent granular activated carbon (GAC) filters. A concentrated solution can be used as GAC modification reagent at 60 °C to improve its adsorption ability. However, whether low concentrations of residuals from AOP modify GAC, the...