More traditional topics include hydrology, wastewater treatment, environmental remediation, organic micro-pollutants and emerging contaminants.
Naturally occurring organic compounds tend to form complexes with divalent cations and micro-pollutants, and to foul membrane surfaces; both phenomena have a significant effect on pollutant rejection.
The latter includes chemical non-equilibrium two-site model of sorption, first-order decay, and volatilization, thus is a compromise between the limited availability of data (on stormwater micro-pollutants) and the required complexity to accurately describe the nature of the phenomenon.
Our results suggest that, to increase the micro-pollutant removal and the chemical dosing efficiency in enhanced tertiary treatment, significant benefits can be derived from the optimisation of reactor design and the development of control schemes that accounts for diurnal secondary effluent micro-pollutant and hydraulic loading patterns.
The present study investigated the feasibility of utilizing Parthenium hysterophorus derived activated N-biochar (PH-ANB) as a potential low cost adsorbent for the effective removal of micro-pollutant and water-soluble cationic pharmaceutical ranitidine hydrochloride (RH) from simulated aqueous system.
Therefore, the interdisciplinary research project ASKURIS focuses on identification and quantification, toxicological assessment and removal of organic micro-pollutants and antibiotic-resistant pathogens in the Berlin water cycle, life cycle-based economic and environmental assessment, public perception and management of potential risks.
On the strength of the high-performance efficiencies of the gravity percolating filter in the attenuation of array of pollutants (physicochemical parameters, nutrients, and micro pollutants) found in domestic wastewater, at the laboratory and field study, the on-site treatment scheme is an appropriate technology for domestic wastewater treatment.
WtE plants provide energy and heat from the combustion of municipal waste: they are often located in urban areas and the concentration of micro pollutants in their stack emissions depends on the municipal waste composition, which may be varying, and is therefore sometimes unpredictable [ 4].
