Treating reverse osmosis concentrate to address scaling and fouling problems in zero-liquid discharge systems: A scientometric review of global trends

M Yaqub, MN Nguyen, W Lee - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Currently, reverse osmosis concentrate (ROC) treatment is one of the most promising
techniques for its disposal because it produces freshwater with high recovery and valuable …

A novel method integrating response surface method with artificial neural network to optimize membrane fabrication for wastewater treatment

B Li, R Yue, L Shen, C Chen, R Li, Y Xu… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Developing high performance membranes is an urgent need to resolve water pollution
problem. Electroless nickel plating (ENP) has been emerging as a promising membrane …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting quality parameters of wastewater treatment plants using artificial intelligence techniques

E Aghdam, SR Mohandes, P Manu, C Cheung… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Estimating wastewater treatment plants'(WWTPs) influent parameters such as 5-day
biological oxygen demand (BOD 5) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) is vital for …

Recovery of metals from wastewater—State-of-the-art solutions with the support of membrane technology

K Staszak, K Wieszczycka - Membranes, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper discusses the most important research trends in the recovery of metals from
industrial wastewater using membrane techniques in recent years. Particular attention is …

Human health risk assessment due to mercury use in gold mining areas in the Ecuadorian Andean region

C Mestanza-Ramón, S Jiménez-Oyola, AVG Montoya… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Mining activity drives economic development and has established itself as one of the main
industrial spheres globally. However, illegal, and artisanal gold mining, which uses mercury …

Hybrid Smart Strategies to Predict Amine Thermal Degradation in Industrial CO2 Capture Processes

A Azarpour, S Zendehboudi - ACS omega, 2023 - ACS Publications
CO2 emission reduction is an essential step to achieve the climate change targets. Solvent-
based post-combustion CO2 capture (PCC) processes are efficient to be retrofitted to the …

Modeling nutrient removal by membrane bioreactor at a sewage treatment plant using machine learning models

M Yaqub, W Lee - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
This study developed machine learning (ML) models to predict nutrient removal using an
anaerobic-anoxic-oxic membrane bioreactor (A 2 O-MBR). An extreme gradient boosting …

Design and fabrication of chitosan cross-linked bismuth sulfide nanoparticles for sequestration of mercury in river water samples

Y Han, J Tao, A Khan, R Ullah, N Ali, N Ali, S Malik… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The existence of heavy metals in ecological systems poses great threats to living organisms
due to their toxicant and bio-accumulating properties. Mercury is a known toxicant with …

Effect of anionic surfactants on the heavy metal ions removal by adsorption onto ion exchangers-batch and column studies

A Wołowicz, K Staszak, Z Hubicki - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Adsorption of heavy metals by various sorbents has been widely studied by many scientists
due to the processes of industrialization as well as the great concentration of these toxic and …

Optimizing the removal of calcium and magnesium from synthetic reverse osmosis concentrate using functional polyketones: A combined experimental and machine …

M Yaqub, A Kumar, W Lee - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, we synthesized functional polyketones (FPKs) for removing scaling ions (Ca 2+
and Mg 2+) from synthetic reverse osmosis concentrate (ROC) and optimized the adsorption …