Filtration technology is well established in the water sector but is limited by inability to remove targeted contaminants, found in surface and groundwater, which can be damaging to human health. This study optimises the design of filters by examining the efficacy of seven media (fly ash, bottom ash, Bayer residue, granular blast furnace slag (GBS), pyritic fill, granular activated carbon (GAC)...

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...

The chemical regeneration of granular activated carbon exhausted in a petrochemical wastewater unit was investigated. Gas chromatography and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy demonstrated that spent activated carbon carries large types of organic and inorganic materials. Diverse chemical solvents were adopted in comparison with traditional chemical solvents and regeneration efficiency was in...

this paper presents the adsorption of phenol on granular activated carbon (gac) from nutrient medium suitable for roorganisms’ growth and also the subsequent biodegradation. two parameter langmuir and freundlich adsorption isotherm models were studied using large range of phenol concentration (50-1000 mg/l). in low range of phenol concentration (50-300 mg/l), correlation coefficient, normaliz...

introduction: wastewaters of chemical, petrochemical, electrical, pharmaceutical and paper industries are the main sources of mercury and its compounds. mercury is one of the toxic elements, so its removal from water and industrial wastewaters seems to be important and essential. the objective of this study was to investigate effective factors such as ph, contact time, absorbent dose, mixing ra...

in this research, rice husk and activated carbon adsorbents were used for removal of lead ion from aqueous solution at ph= 6. in the batch tests experimental parameters were studied, including contact time and initial metal ions concentration.survey of the equilibrium time at different concentration showed that equilibrium time is reduced with decrease of initial concentration of solution from ...

MECHANISM AND KINETICS OF THE REDUCTION OF NITRIC OXIDE BY GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBON INDUCED BY PdO/Al2O3 IN THE PRESENCE OF O2 by Tian Sang NO x and particulate matter are the main environmental hazards found in Diesel exhaust. In order to explore a novel method to remove NO„ as well as particulate matter, we examined the catalytic reduction of NO x with solid carbonaceous materials as a surro...

Free ammonium in industries wastewater could be one of the worst toxic contaminants of aquatic life if diluted in water. Biological nitrogen removal (BNR) is the most common method for removing ammonium and nitrate from wastewater. Attached growth and suspended growth are the main BNR systems. The aim of the present work was to study the treatment of petrochemical wastewater (ammonium and nitra...