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Cristina E. Almeida-Naranjo, Elvia Gallegos, Elizabeth Domínguez, Paola Gutiérrez, Vladimir Valle, Alex Darío Aguilar, Alexis Debut and Catalina Vasco
Oil palm empty fruit bunch fibers (OPEFBF), in three size ranges (small: 250?450 µm, medium: 450?600 µm, large: 600?800 µm), were investigated as a filter-bed material in biofilters for the removal of organic matter and nutrients. After saturation, these...
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Teresa Rodríguez-Espinosa, Ana Pérez Gimeno, María Belén Almendro Candel, Ignacio Gómez Lucas and Jose Navarro-Pedreño
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Krzysztof Barbusinski, Anita Parzentna-Gabor and Damian Kasperczyk
This study reviews the available and most commonly used methods of gas deodorization. Comparing various methods of odor removal, undoubtedly biological methods of pollution degradation have an advantage over others?chemical and physical. This advantage i...
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Joanna Rodziewicz, Kamila Ostrowska, Wojciech Janczukowicz and Artur Mielcarek
The basic factors determining the efficiency of the removal of nitrogen and carbon compounds from airport wastewater containing de-icing agents are low temperature and the C/N ratio (carbon to nitrogen ratio). Biofilm reactors (biofilters) create better ...
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Rémi Soret, Jean-Louis Fanlo, Luc Malhautier, Philippe Geiger and Sandrine Bayle
New emerging issues appears regarding the possible aerosolization of micro-organisms from biofilters to the ambient air. Traditional bioaerosol sampling and cultural methods used in literature offer relative efficiencies. In this study, a new method revo...
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Gema Sakti Raspati, Hanna Kristine Haug Lindseth, Tone Merete Muthanna and Kamal Azrague
Organic de-icing chemicals, such as propylene glycol and potassium formate, cause environmental degradation in receiving water if left untreated, due to the high organic load resulting in oxygen depletion. Biofilters are commonly used for the treatment o...
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Harsha S. Fowdar, Ana Deletic, Belinda E. Hatt and Perran L. M. Cook
Nitrogen is a pollutant of great concern when present in excess in surface waters. Living wall biofiltration systems that employ ornamentals and climbing plants are an emerging green technology that has recently demonstrated significant potential to redu...
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Gayani Chandrasena, Ana Deletic, Anna Lintern, Rebekah Henry and David McCarthy
Biofilters are a widely used stormwater treatment technology. However; other than some evidence regarding non-pathogenic indicator microorganisms; there are significant knowledge gaps in the capacity of stormwater biofilters to remove actual pathogens an...
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James Macnamara and Chris Derry
The City of Sydney is constructing more than 21,000 square metres of street biofilter units (raingardens) in terms of their Decentralised Water Master Plan (DWMP), for improving the quality of stormwater runoff to Port Jackson, the Cooks River, and the h...
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Amir Aloni and Asher Brenner
This study is part of a comprehensive research aimed at the development and application of the ?Water Sensitive Cities? idea in Israel. This is a sustainable concept, incorporating among others the harvesting, treatment, and reuse of storm-water. The use...
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