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Anaerobic filters (AFs) and upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactors are finding wide-scale acceptance for treating various types of wastewater. They are frequently used for medium to high strength wastewater (2,000 to 20,000 mg/L COD), but have fewer applications to low strength wastewater (< 1,000 mg/L COD). In order to understand the applicability of anaerobic treatment for low streng...

introduction: treatment of wastewater due to product and consumption of material cleaning with special physicochemical characteristics is difficult, and therefore can cause significant environmental problems such as eutrification, toxicity, algae bloom and etc.to stop these consequences, assessing the quality characteristics of this wastewaters is necessary. to investigate about the appropriate...

background: chromium (cr) is the most important element used to plate other metals and electroplating factories are still consid­ered to be the most important industries which pollute the environment to this metal. this paper describes a study con­ducted to determine the efficiency of reverse-osmosis (ro) as a membrane technique for removal of cr from wastewater sam­ples synthetically prepared ...

wastewater treatment technology in the cyclic nature of the process that takes a long time. but man tries to rush to their needs with experience and understanding of the natural processes of interaction, and using technology to build their industrial development is authorized. sewage treatment reed have been born from the vision of man's increasing need to water daily decreases the natural reso...

environmental contamination by toxic metals is a serious problem due to their extreme toxicity towards aquatic life and humans. biosorption is an alternative technology to conventional processes for the removal of metals. biosorption of pb(ii) ions on the lichen biomass of cladonia rangiformis hoffm. is presented in this research. batch experiments were conducted to study the biosorption proper...

the efficiency of existing municipal wastewater treatment plants has been affected by the increase of incoming organic load caused by the expansions in developing countries. in the present investigation, the effect of chemically enhanced primary treatment (cept) process was studied on the enhancement efficiency of a municipal wastewater treatment plant in tehran, iran. jar test results showed a...

nano-srtio3 and tio2 powders were synthesized using sol-gel method. the srtio3 and tio2 powders were characterized using xrd, sem, and spectrophotometry. xrd analysis indicated that the tio2 powder was uniform anatase crystals of 9.9 nm and the srtio3 powders was cubic nano-crystal of 16.2nm. photocatalytic experiments revealed that methyl orange in water can be decomposed on the two powders un...

in the present study seven synthetic polymers were used as adsorbents for the removal of cd(ii) from aqueous solution. the equilibrium studies were systematically carried out in a batch process, covering various process parameters that include agitation time, adsorbent dosage, and ph of the aqueous solution. the analyzing system was an atomic absorption spectrometer (perkin-analyst 100). it was...

an efficiency-centred hierarchical model is developed to assess the performance ofwastewater treatment plants (wwtps). specifically, a new treatment performance index (tpi) hasbeen proposed to determine the overall treatment performance of wwtp by analysing the tpivalues and the weights of individual treatment phase for overall treatment performance. threemodules have been developed to examine ...