The effects of changes in cellular characteristics and dissolved organic matter (DOM) on dissolved air flotation (DAF) harvesting of Chlorella zofingiensis at the different growth phases were studied. Harvesting efficiency increased with Al(3+) dosage and reached more than 90%, regardless of growth phases. In the absence of DOM, the ratio of Al(3+) dosage to surface functional group concentrati...

Stone Brew Co. in Escondido, California, built a brand new brewing facility with a simple wastewater treatment system adjacent to a restaurant and one acre beer garden in 2005. After some significant production growth, the City threatened to significantly increase the water rate to be able to accommodate the higher organic strength and solids content in the water. This resulted in the installat...

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an attractive approach to implement the waste management system in terms of environmental sustainability. The variety options has been made emergence requirement a methodology choose best for decision-makers. This paper aims generate comprehensive model facilitate life products develop cleaner production strategy manufacture. In first step, and adopting models are...

In this study, the responses of Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF), sedimentation, and sand filtration treatment processes on feed water with varied algal concentrations were investigated, based a technical–economic analysis using data collected from drinking plant (DWTP) in Guangxi, China. Cost-effective for sources algae proposed. The results showed that DAF was able to achieve almost 95% removal ...

Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) are considered a major contributor to membrane biofouling in Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) desalination plants. The presence of HABs the raw feed water leads an increase fouling rate, chemical consumption, and can cause temporary shutdown Effective pretreatment reduce amount organic foulants reaching RO alleviate problem flux decline during operation frequent clean...

The performance of microflotation, dispersed air flotation with microbubble clouds with bubble size about 50 µm, for algae separation using fluidic oscillation for microbubble generation is investigated. This fluidic oscillator converts continuous air supply into oscillatory flow with a regular frequency to generate bubbles of the scale of the exit pore. Bubble characterization results showed t...

Flotation constitutes a gravity separation process, which originated from the minerals processing field. However, it has, nowadays, found several other applications, as for example in the wastewater treatment field. Concerning the necessary bubble generation method, typically dispersed-air or dissolved-air flotation was mainly used. Various types of biological materials were tested and floated ...

Currently, industries seek to optimize the development of technology from energy-saving, economic, and environmental perspectives. Dissolved air flotation (DAF) is one most effective wastewater treatment systems. However, it requires considerable energy causes significant operating costs. A recently emerged application using fluidic oscillators (FOs) generate microbubbles has attracted extensiv...