Bacteria will stick to almost any surface in an industrial water system and will almost always produce a slimy polysaccharide matrix. This state of microorganism activity is now universally known as biofilm. Biofilm poses numerous problems in water processes, including corrosion, loss of process efficiency such as heat transfer, and health issues such as Legionella infection. Biofilm is not onl...

Water quality management policies on a river basin scale are of special importance in order to prevent and/or reduce environmental pollution caused by human sources. Industrial effluents are a priority issue particularly in Urban Wastewater Systems (UWS) that receive mixed household and industrial wastewaters, apart from rainfall water. In this paper, we present an analysis and implementation o...

Assessing and managing water use is crucial for supporting sustainable river basin management and regional development. The first consistent and comprehensive assessment of sectorial water use in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) is presented by analysing homogenized annual water use data from 2000 to 2010 in relation to socio economic statistics for the same period. An abstraction of water use, usin...

the present study aimed at investigating and estimating the amount of damage caused by waste water pollution of water desalinators in the south pars special zone. the main reasons for conducting this study were to investigate the creation of environmental pollutants as a result of the development and expansion of different industries in the south pars zone, as well as the ecological sensitivity...

Industrial discharges of untreated effluents into water bodies and emissions into air have deteriorated the quality of water and air, respectively. The huge amount of pollutants derived from industrial activities represents a threat for the environment and ecologic equilibrium. Phenols and halogenated phenols, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), endocrine disruptive chemicals (EDC), pestici...

In this paper we propose the use of an argument-based model – ProCLAIM – that has the potential to minimize ecological impact of industrial wastewater discharges into water bodies. On the one hand, the diversity and unpredictability of many of industrial wastewater discharges and on the other, the complexity of ecological systems that finally receive the discharge (i.e. fluvial ecosystems) illu...

Brass used in heat exchanger is corroded in industrial water. The used inhibitor is extracted from horse tail herb added in different concentrations and temperature to industrial water in which heat exchanger if exposed to these conditions. Brass is studied under the above conditions using potentiodynamic polarization, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction. Potentiodynamic po...

Dyes are one of prevalent types of chemicals used by human being today. Dyes are organic compounds which have complex aromatic molecular structure that make them toxic and harmful. When these dyes introduced with water due to textile dyeing and printing industrial waste water may cause problems to all living organism. In these dyes highly toxic metals are used as mordents so the removal of thes...