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Sarcheshme Copper refinery is using ion exchange columns to supply deionized water to the refinery. Every day, 240 cubic meters of waste water from ion exchange columns process are released in nature. The main purpose of this research is to use membrane distillation to purify this wastewater, which reduces the fresh water requirement and at the same time prevents environmental pollution. Membrane distillation technology is capable to purify the high salinity wastewater that other conventional membrane technologies are not able to purify. In this study, the PTFE membrane was used due to its high permeability and low surface energy with pore size of 0.22 μm and membrane thickness of 0.2 to... 

In this project, performance of anaerobic digestion of organic waste in liquid phase has been investigated in an experimental process. Thus, the objective of this study was to optimize the organic loading rates, temperature and mixing of anaerobic digestion to the treatment of municipal solid wastes. To achieve this, the pilot scale experiment was conducted in 70l, fully mixed reactor. The start-up process was established over a period of 2 months. Starting the digestion in two stages was done with two different feed stocks, in which the feed stock of the first stage was star and in the second stage vegetables were considered as the organic waste. Experiment was investigated in mesophilic... 

Organic dye couldn’t be treated by conventional method (biological method) due to their durable structure. In recent years, graphene based adsorbent has become more popular; this is because of high specific surface area and presence of numerous functional group on its surface. Due to the widespread application of organic dye in different industry especially in textile industry, stability and toxicity nature of them, finding an appropriate and cost effective method in treatment of this pollutant is very important. In this study, preparing and characterization of 3-D gel magnetic graphene oxide/kappa carrageenan was conducted and its ability of dye adsorption was tested. For this purpose, at... 

The oilfields' wastewater, the water that is produced beside oil and is called ''Produced Water'', includes a large variety of pollutants. Heavy metals such as Lead, Manganese, Zinc and Barium and their compounds are some of the produced water's pollutants and because of their high stability they accumulate in life cycle. So a suitable and proper treatment is necessary. A combination of effectual and important parameters such as good adsorption, magnetic properties and low prices made Iron nanoparticles have a bright future in management of environmental pollutions. In this study Maghemite and Magnetite nanoparticles are used to remove heavy metals and effect of others factors such as pH,... 

Biological treatment is an essential part of wastewater treatment. One of the major problems of the biological treatment systems is a solid separation. Filamentous bulking is a type of solid separation problem that settled sludge volume and the turbidity of the effluent will be increase in bulking condition. The presence of excessive Filamentous bacteria causes filamentous bulking. In this thesis, filamentous bulking were studied to understand this phenomena better and tried to control that with the different methods. This research was conducted in laboratory scale Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR), conventional activated sludge and conventional activated sludge with anaerobic selector with... 

Removal of petroleum hydrocarbons from water is one of the environmental challenges. In this study the functionalized magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) was used to remove kerosene oil as contaminants from water. Effective factors on adsorption of oil on MNPs were investigated. Magnetic nanoparticles were synthesized on activated carbon derived from almond shell and after a coating by silica, it Was functionalized by NH2 and COOH functional groups. After preparation of kerosene oil/water stable emulsions by emulsifier, the adsorption capacity of AC@Fe3O4@SiO2-NH2-COOH was evaluated. The adsorbent was characterized by various physicochemical techniques such as transmission electron microscopy,... 

Textile industrial wastewaters are one of the most important sources of environmental contaminants. In the recent years, use of advanced oxidation processes, by producing highly active and reactive components such as hydroxyl radicals has been proposed. The aim of this research is oxidative degradation of methylene blue dye using Cu-nanoparticles immobilized on a polymer support with H2O2 as an oxidant reagent.In general, oxidative degradation of methylene blue with hydrogen proxide in the presence of immobilized CuO nanoparticles on a polymer support as the catalyst was studied. We used polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimer as the polymer support for nanoparticles. fourth generation of PAMAM was... 

This research examines the produced water conditions in Iran and different ways of dealing with it; it looks forward to provide effective treatment system in order to confront the economic and environmental problems associated with the current operations and facilitate the exploitation of oil resources. Produced water in Iran have poor quality and high salinity, so the number of disposal options or use of it is very limited and non-industrial uses become non-economic and uncertain option. Seventy percent of Iranian oil reservoirs in onshore areas and reduced salinity concentration is a big challenge in produced water management. The first step in this project is finding an efficient and... 

This research was done in order to test the capability of endemic microorganisms in treating hydro-carbonic pollutants found in the soil specimens of Assaluye industrial region. To find the optimum conditions for treating the contaminations, we tried several amounts of substrate as well as temperature and humidity. The total concentration of hydrocarbon compounds in polluted soil samples was measured by both infrared spectrometry and gas chromatography, in treatment process after extraction. The results show that, having 50mg substrate per 1kg of contaminated soil added and keeping humidity at 11%, in a 60-days course the level of initial pollution decreased by 60%. 10 degrees increase in... 

Over 90 percent of the wastewater treatment systems use activated sludge which, yields to increase in organic loadings, these systems do not have appropriate performance. For upgrading of these systems a UASB reactor has been used prior to the activated sludge system, to improve the system performance and also reduce the excess sludge production. A membrane was also used instead of the sedimentation tank, to betterment the effluent quality. COD influent concentration was about 600 to 2400 mg/l, up to 98 percent of COD reduction obtain in this system. Also excess sludge reduction was over 90%. Such a system upgrading will increase treatment capacity by factor of 5. As it was shown, for UASBR,... 

Laboratory experiments were carried out to investigate the effect of influent alkalinity and reactor pH on microbial species, morphology and performance efficiency of aerobic granules. The experiments were conducted in two L sequencing batch reactors (R1-R2) with different influent alkalinity and pH medium. pH in R1 ,with high influent alkalinity, was in the range of 7-7.5 and pH in R2 was adjusted in 4.5-5.5. The experimental results demonstrated that the dominated microbial species and structure of granules were different in two rectors. Acidic environment of R2 provide favorable condition for fungal growth and granules formed within first week of operation. On the other hand in R1,... 

Activated sludge systems are widespread biological wastewater treatment systems that have a very complex and nonlinear dynamics with a wide range of time constants and, as a consequence, are difficult to model and control. On the other hand, using neural networks as function approximators has provided a reliable tool for modeling complex dynamic systems like activated sludge. In this study a multi-input multi-output neural network model predictive controller (NNMPC) is developed and tested based on the basic control strategy of a benchmark simulation model (called BSM1) suggested by european co-operation in the field of science and technical research (COST) actions 682/624. The controller... 

Due to the large portion of organic fraction of municipal solid wastes in Iran, the needing for stabilization and treatment of this waste is obvious. An appropriate method for treatment of these wastes is anaerobic digestion. By skimming through open literature which are investigated about anaerobic bioreactors, declared that despite the benefits of thermophilic bioreactors over mesophilic ones, (more destruction of pathogens, more removal of volatile solids, more production of biogas and greater resilient to organic loading rate shocks) but because of more difficulties in controlling of thermophilic bioreactors, most studies have been done in mesophilic state. This motivated us to a deeper... 

In this study as representatives of alkenylbenzenes and mono-alkylbenzenes respectively were considered individually and as binary mixtures. It was observed that styrene, and ethyl benzene were inhibitory types of substrates across the tested concentration ranges. Thus, biodegradation kinetic is well described by the Haldane model. Kinetic parameter's assessments from single substrate degradation tests and these parameters were used to predict possibly interaction factors achieved from dual substrate experiments. The achieved outcomes from mixture of experiments revealed that the ratio of depletion for each substrate is affected by the presence of the other. It was also inferred that ethyl... 

Nanotechnology as an interdisciplinary science is used in many fields. The use of nanomaterial, make new opportunities in the industry. However, safety issues and environmental risks of the consequences of their use in various applications are the matters of concern. Because of the new emergence of this technology, it is essential that all aspects including possible harmful effects on the environment will also be considered. One way to remove the nanoparticles, is electrocoagulation method, assemble nanoparticles into larger particles with an electric current. In this study, the removal of titanium dioxide nanoparticles, due to its high use in the industry, with electrocoagulation method and... 

Nowadays, increased pollutants in the air threat the society health condition and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are the most hazardous ones among them. In the present study, catalytic oxidation as a prominent of the VOCs removal method from air, have attracted attentions due to high removal efficiency and suitable kinetic reaction. Because of its common industrial applications, toluene is intended to be eliminated through a low cost carbon supported catalyst which is synthesised in the laboratory. Construction method, carbonaceous support type, catalyst metal and its load, calcination temperature and time are among influencing design characteristics. A combination of Impregnation and... 

Almost all of the animal slaughter is done in slaughterhouses. Environment concerns about slaughterhouse industries have been increased as increase in their production. In this study, a DAF+SBR system was used for treatment of industrial slaughterhouse wastewater and efficiency of this system was evaluated.In DAF, we used anionic polymer and PAC as coagulant. We reached best composition in 2 ppm of AP and 200 ppm of PAC. After that DAF system run in different pressures to estimate the best operational pressure & A/S. Best operational pressure and A/S is 4 bar and 0.038. After pretreatment, biological treatment by using SBR reactor was carried out. The results of the SBR reactor showed that... 

Despite many advantages of granular sludge in anaerobic reactors (e.g. UASB), over the past few years research attention had turned towards developing aerobic granular sludge. Although much research is carried out on the formation of aerobic granules, less work is reported on how to enhance granules characteristics such as increasing in granule size, concentration, durability and stability. The aims of this study are to investigate the effects of cationic polymer on granule formation and the way to improve granule characteristics. For this purpose two SBR reactors (0.15 m diameter and 1.8 m height, R1 and R2) were used by feeding synthetic wastewater (diluted molasses, COD ranging from 1400...