Clean water is one of the most significant challenges for our society. Efficient reuse of effluent water after treatment can becomes an effective solution to the shortage of water resources. The focus of this study is to investigate the use of Eichhornia crassipes plants for post...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2021/v24i130196
The growth of Eichhornia crassipes under outdoor conditions was examined during a 42-day test in a wastewater treatment plants primary clarifier, trickling filter and secondary clarifier using municipal residential wastewater as the chosen supplier of nutrients. Test results show...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2020/v23i230138
The growth of water hyacinths under outdoor and controlled laboratory conditions was examined using diluted cow manure as the chosen supplier of nutrients. The study showed that water hyacinth can be used for water purification. Ammonia appears to be the preferred source of nitro...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2018/42741
Hydrodynamic cavitation principle was applied to phosphate containing water and waste water. A 20% Calcium hydroxide slurry was applied before hydrodynamic cavitation to precipitate calcium phosphate by reacting calcium hydroxide and phosphate in water. A 70% reduction of phospha...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/33285
At a waste water treatment facility, secondary treatment process algae species Cladophora glomerata and Vaucheria is growing in a trickling filter. This study investigates the role of the algae and its potential for phosphor removal. Phosphorus removed by algae in the trickling f...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2017/29979
The laboratory study examines the suitability of shrub willow for paper making applications. The shrub willow was harvested, debarked, chopped, sorted and hydrothermal pretreated before sulfate pulping. After pulping a four stage bleaching process followed. The results show that...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/19131
A trickling filter at a Waste Water Treatment Facility in the Village of Minoa in Central New York State represents an entire ecological community with different algae during the spring, summer, fall and winter months. The algae types present are identified as Cladophora glomerat...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2015/17861
Energy production is one of the significant challenges our world will face in the future. The utilization of fuels originating from plants as an alternative energy source will impact fossil fuel utilization and energy production. This research focuses on the hydrothermal treatmen...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16536
Shrinking oil resources increases the importance of substitutes in the form of biofuels. A variety of extraction processes for the generation of biodiesel out of vegetable based oils have been established in the last decades. This research investigates in the implementation of hy...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/32179
Problems in the waste water treatment system of a local micro-brewery brought up the question whether fruits as additional ingredients can have a significant influence on the pH and the Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) of the waste water. To reach an answer to this question, five bat...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/30228