A combined experimental and computational approach to unravel degradation mechanisms in electrochemical wastewater treatment

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2024, 10,652-667
DOI: 10.1039/D3EW00784G, Paper
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Sara Feijoo, Simona Baluchová, Mohammadreza Kamali, Josephus G. Buijnsters, Raf Dewil
Understanding electrochemical oxidation mechanisms through a combined experimental and computational approach.
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Sustainable remediation of paint factory wastewater using electrocoagulation

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2024, 10,702-717
DOI: 10.1039/D3EW00845B, Paper
Gabriel Horváth, Zsolt Szalay, František Šimo, Barbora Vidová, Patrik Hlavanda, Agneša Szarka, Svetlana Hrouzková, Stanislava Debnárová, František Zažímal, Tomáš Homola
Electrochemical treatment of paint-factory wastewater significantly reduces COD, turbidity, phosphorus, and pollutants, generating sludge for potential remanufacturing.
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Evaluation of environmental performance and selection of the most suitable system for MFCs with different electron acceptors by life cycle assessment and PROMETHEE approach

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2024, 10,729-742
DOI: 10.1039/D3EW00809F, Paper
Simge Çankaya, Elif Durna Pişkin, Nevim Genç
The aim of this study is to evaluate the environmental performance of MFCs with different electron acceptors with life cycle assessment (LCA) and to select the most suitable MFC with the PROMETHEE approach.
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Identification and quantification of diffuse groundwater pollution in a mineralised watershed

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2024, 10,668-676
DOI: 10.1039/D3EW00194F, Paper
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Aaron M. L. Todd, Iain Robertson, Patrick Byrne, Rory P. D. Walsh, Tom Williams, Paul Edwards
Locating and quantifying sources of metals in a mineralised catchment, using tracer injection and synoptic sampling.
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A comparative study on the degradation of iohexol and diatrizoate during UV/persulfate process: kinetics, degradation pathways and iodinated disinfection by-products

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2024, 10,718-728
DOI: 10.1039/D3EW00696D, Paper
Chen-Yan Hu, Ling Xu, Yi-Li Lin, Cong Li
Iodinated X-ray contrast media (ICM) are widely used in medical imaging due to their stable properties, but they cannot be effectively removed in wastewater treatment plants (especially hospital wastewater).
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Effects of an electrocoagulation–air flotation–microfiltration pretreatment process on the start-up of a moving bed biofilm reactor: performance and microbial community structure

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2024, 10,743-756
DOI: 10.1039/D3EW00497J, Paper
Jianping Xu, Yishuai Du, Jiawei Zhang, Hexiang Wang, Guogen Su, Li Zhou, Tianlong Qiu, Jianming Sun
A moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) is an efficient water treatment process, widely used in recirculating aquaculture systems.
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Emerging investigator series: optimisation of drinking water biofilm cell detachment and sample homogenisation methods for rapid quantification via flow cytometry

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EW00553D, Paper
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Frances C. Pick, Katherine E. Fish
Establishing an optimized method to harvest and quantify cells of biofilms from drinking water systems.
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Rapid detection of viable Bacteroides in sewage-contaminated water using sodium dodecyl sulfate and propidium monoazide combined with loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EW00585B, Paper
Meysam Khodaparast, Dave Sharley, Stephen Marshall, Travis Beddoe
Microbial source tracking using nucleic acid-based amplification techniques, including qPCR and LAMP is now routinely used to detect indicator bacteria in human faecal-contaminated water.
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Differential biotransformation of micropollutants in conventional activated sludge and up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket processes

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EW00867C, Paper
M. Martin, Jingyi Wu, Stephanie L. Rich, Ruth E. Richardson, Damian E. Helbling
We report differential micropollutant biotransformations in a conventional activated sludge (CAS) process and a pilot-scale up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) process operating in parallel at the same wastewater treatment plant.
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Cephalexin interaction with biosolids-derived dissolved organic matter: binding mechanism and implications for adsorption by biochar and clay

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EW00590A, Paper
Michael P. Schmidt, Daniel J. Ashworth, Abasiofiok Mark Ibekwe
The antibiotic cephalexin binds to DOM under environmentally-relevent solution conditions through π–π bonding. Under conditions where cephalexin–DOM binding occurs, cephalexin adsorption by biochar and clay is impeded by DOM addition.
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