Use of Continuous Aeration Respirometry Method for the Prediction of Slightly Saline Waste Water Biodegradation

AbstractThe microorganisms growth kinetics is determined by the physical and chemical characteristics of the environment in which they find themselves and multiply; It is therefore essential to understand the effect of these environmental factors to master cell multiplication and hence the pollution biodegradation. Respirometry has been used in recent years in the laboratory as an assessment technique of microbial activity and an effect detector of the contamination (presence of toxic, stress, increase or decrease in pH, temperature variation .) on bacterial respiration and hence on the biological waste water treatment plant. In this study respirometry has been used as a relatively quick and efficient means to detect the effect of the presence of a salt of up to 5g/l (low salt stress) on the degradation of carbon and nitrogen pollution and on bacterial floc aggregation

Sorption Study of a Basic Dye “Gentian Violet” from Aqueous Solutions Using Activated Bentonite

AbstractVarious industries like textiles, papers, food, plastics, leather, etc are great water and organic colorant users. Hence, the resulting effluents could be an important source of environmental problems, since they may contain stable and non biodegradable contaminants, like organic dyes. The treatment of which is the main scope of the present study. Different ways of dye removal from these effluents do exist, such as flotation, reverse osmosis, chemical flocculation and adsorption etc. Adsorption is used in this work for the removal of a particular basic dye, known as Gentian violet (GV) from an aqueous solution, by means of a natural clay material. The influence of various key parameters like contact time, temperature, ionic strength, etc. on the adsorbed amount of the dye was investigated, for batch conditions. A kinetic study was also carried out, the obtained experimental results were tested against the pseudo first order and the pseudo second order equations. An analysis of the obtained equilibrium data showed that the dye adsorption is best described by the Langmuir model. The obtained results showed that temperature did enhance the Gentian violet dye retention process onto the considered bentonite whereas the obtained thermodynamic parameters indicated that the adsorption process is spontaneous and endothermic. The simultaneous presence of methylene blue, which is another colorant compound, with the Gentian violet was also considered. The clay materials showed a better affinity for the first one i e. methylene blue. In conclusion and according to the obtained results, the clay material may be recommended as an industrial adsorbent for the treatment of effluents containing Gentian violet (GV)

Supercritical impregnation of intraocular lenses for the elaboration of controlled drug release systems

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Application of the IWA ADM1 model to simulate anaerobic co-digestionof organic waste with waste activated sludge in mesophilic condition

Anaerobic digestion model no. 1 model of international water association was applied to a full scale anaerobic co-digestion process for the treatment of the organic fraction of municipal solid wastes along with activated sludge wastes originating from a municipal wastewater treatment plant. This operation was carried out in a digester of 2000 m3 in volume. It is operates at an average hydraulic retention time of 26.9 days with an average organic loading rate of 1.01 kg TVS/m3 day, at a temperature of 37 \ub0C with an average gas production rate of 0.296 m3/m3 day. The aim of the present study is to compare the results obtained from the simulation with the experimental values. The simulated results showed a good fit for pH, methane and carbon dioxide percentages, biogas volume, chemical oxygen demand, total volatile fatty acids, inorganic nitrogen and inorganic carbon

Drug loading of foldable commercial intraocular lenses using supercritical impregnation

The drug delivery through intraocular lenses (IOLs) allows the combination of cataract surgery act and postoperative treatment in a single procedure. In order to prepare such systems, “clean” supercritical CO2 processes are studied for loading commercial IOLs with ophthalmic drugs. Ciprofloxacin (CIP, an antibiotic) and dexamethasone 21-phosphate disodium (DXP, an anti-inflammatory drug) were impregnated into foldable IOLs made from poly-2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (P-HEMA). A first pre-treatment step was conducted in order to remove absorbed conditioning physiological solution. Supercritical impregnations were then performed by varying the experimental conditions. In order to obtain transparent IOLs and avoid the appearance of undesirable foaming, it was necessary to couple slow pressurization and depressurization phases during supercritical treatments. The impregnation yields were determined through drug release studies. For both drugs, release studies showdeep and reproducible impregnation for different diopters. For the system P-HEMA/CIP, a series of impregnations was performed to delimit the experimental range at two pressures (80 and 200 bar) in the presence or absence of ethanol as a co-solvent for two diopters (+5.0 D and +21.0 D). Increase in pressure in the absence of a co-solvent resulted in improved CIP impregnation. The addition of ethanol (5 mol%) produced impregnation yields comparable to those obtained at 200 bar without co-solvent. A response surface methodology based on experimental designs was used to study the influence of operating conditions on impregnation of IOLs (+21.0 D) in the absence of co-solvent. Two input variables with 5 levels each were considered; the pressure (80–200 bar) and the impregnation duration (30–240 min). CIP impregnation yields ranging between 0.92 and 3.83 μgCIP/mgIOL were obtained from these experiments and response surface indicated the pressure as a key factor in the process. The DXP impregnation in P-HEMA was higher than CIP at all the tested conditions (8.50–14.53 μgDXP/mgIOL). Furthermore, unlike CIP, highest DXP impregnation yields were obtained in the presence of ethanol as a co-solvent (5 mol%). NMR spectroscopy was performed to confirm complete removal of ethanol in the co-solvent-treated IOLs

Induction expérimentale de la pneumonie pasteurellique chez la chèvre : étude des modifications physiopathologiques

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Leachate effluent COD removal using electrocoagulation A response surface methodology (RSM) optimization and modelling

International audienceThis study focused on electrocoagulation treatment of leachate effluent using aluminum electrodes in a discontinuous system, the modeling and optimization of which were carried out using the response surface methodology (RSM) basing on the central composite design (CCD). Moreover, individual and interaction effects of principal independent factors (current density (X1), initial pH (X2), electrolysis time (X3), and distance between electrodes (X4)), on chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficiency response, were investigated. The obtained results were in good agreement with the predicted ones with correlation factors R2 Dec = 0.94 and R2 Ajusted = 0.88. At the optimal conditions, maximal removal efficiency was achieved for values of chemical oxygen demand (COD), total organic carbon, total nitrogen, and turbidity of 79.8%, 78%, 45.4%, and 99.9%, respectively. The quite good agreement between the experimental values and the predicted results confirms the reliability of the RSM approach in the modeling and optimizing of the leachate treatment using an electrocoagulation process. © 2018 Desalination Publications. All rights reserved