Removal of natural organic matter from source water: Review on coagulants, dual coagulation, alternative coagulants, and mechanisms

HNP Dayarathne, MJ Angove, R Aryal… - Journal of Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
Natural organic matter (NOM) represents a range of soluble and insoluble material which
can have considerable impact on drinking water quality. In addition to creating problems …

S-scheme assisted Cu2O/ZnO flower-shaped heterojunction catalyst for breakthrough hydrogen evolution by water splitting

BH Park, H Park, T Kim, SJ Yoon, Y Kim, N Son… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Zinc and copper are considered as excellent metals for oxidation and reducibility,
respectively. This study aims to obtain a redox-coupled composite semiconductor, wherein …

A review of natural polysaccharides-based flocculants derived from waste: application efficiency, function mechanism, and development prospects

J Zhang, P Li, Y Yu, Y Xu, W Jia… - Industrial & Engineering …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The application of conventional flocculants always causes degenerative diseases, whereas
natural polysaccharide (NPs)-based flocculants exhibit great potential, due to their biosafety …

[HTML][HTML] Removal of hazardous oxide nanoparticles by the biopolymer flocculation in the presence of divalent salt

J Matusiak, E Grządka, A Bastrzyk - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Unrestrained development of the industry constantly shows a new scale of emerging
problems. One of them is a production and utilization of different nanoparticles (NPs) …

Removal of ZnO nanoparticles from natural waters by coagulation-flocculation process: influence of surfactant type on aggregation, dissolution and colloidal stability

R Khan, MA Inam, MM Iqbal, M Shoaib, DR Park… - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
The zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) and surfactants that are widely used in commercial
and industrial products lead to the likelihood of their co-occurrence in natural water, making …

Effect of pyrolysis conditions on food waste conversion to biochar as a coagulant aid for wastewater treatment

H Yang, JK Kang, SJ Park, CG Lee - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Food waste (FW) treatment via pyrolysis can be a promising method to reduce the amount of
FW and produce value-added products such as biochar. In this study, FW was converted to …

Influence of organic ligands on the colloidal stability and removal of ZnO nanoparticles from synthetic waters by coagulation

R Khan, MA Inam, DR Park, S Zam Zam, S Shin… - Processes, 2018 - mdpi.com
The large-scale production and usage of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) may lead to
their post-release into the aquatic environment. In this study, the effect of hydrophobic …

Application of enteromorpha polysaccharides as coagulant aid in the simultaneous removal of CuO nanoparticles and Cu2+: Effect of humic acid concentration

Y Luo, B Gao, Q Yue, R Li - Chemosphere, 2018 - Elsevier
Humic acid (HA) influences the aggregation and stability of nanoparticles (NPs), which
determine the removal performance of NPs in coagulation. Consequently, in this study, the …

[HTML][HTML] Optimization of biogenic sulfur flocculation from an anoxic desulfurization bioreactor using response surface methodology

S Torres-Herrera, JJ González-Cortés, F Almenglo… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Elemental sulfur is an interesting byproduct obtained in the anoxic biodesulfurization of
biogas. However, the colloidal properties of this biogenic elemental sulfur (S 0) make its …

Application of PAFC/CPAM for the removal of ZnO nanoparticles by enhanced coagulation

Z You, C Zhao, Y Sun, C Zhuang - Water Science and Technology, 2021 - iwaponline.com
To cope with the increasingly severe challenges of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO-NPs) in
the field of the aquatic environment, this paper uses poly-aluminum ferric chloride (PAFC) …