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primary pollutants, etc ; air; air quality; air temperature; microclimate; particulates; spatial distribution; wind direction; wind speed; winter; China; Show all 11 Subjects
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... The vertical distribution of air pollutants in urban street canyons is closely related to residents’ health. However, the vertical air quality in urban street canyons has rarely been assessed using field observations obtained throughout the year. Therefore, this study investigated the seasonal and annual concentrations of particulate matter (PM₂.₅ and PM₁₀), CO, NO₂, SO₂, O₃, air quality index, an ...
... Photooxidative removal of pharmaceuticals and organic dyes is an effective way to eliminate growing micropollutants. However, photooxidation often results in byproducts as secondary hazardous substances such as phytotoxins. Herein, we found that photooxidation of common antibiotic tetracycline hydrochloride (TCH) over a metal-free 8-hydroxyquinoline (8-HQ) functionalized carbon nitride (CN) photoc ...
pollutants, etc ; absorption; cadmium; heavy metals; hydroponics; mass spectrometry; pollution; rice; root growth; root tips; stele; tetracycline; tillering; toxicity; transportation; China; Show all 16 Subjects
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... Co-exposure to heavy metal and antibiotic pollution might result in complexation and synergistic interactions, affecting rice growth and further exacerbating pollutant enrichment. Therefore, our study sought to clarify the influence of different Tetracycline (TC) and Cadmium(Cd) concentration ratios (both alone and combined) on rice growth, pollutant accumulation, and transportation during the til ...
pollutants, etc ; air; biological treatment; remediation; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Organic-contaminated soils are a major health issue because pollutants can be transferred to waters, air, and living organisms. Many remediation technologies have been developed, yet single methods are usually not fully efficient due to the wide diversity of soil and pollutant properties. Therefore, combining several methods has recently shown wider application range, higher efficiency, and better ...
pollutants, etc ; bicarbonates; chlorides; models; sulfates; Show all 5 Subjects
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... This study quantitatively evaluated the effect of chloride (Cl⁻) on the radical distribution and micropollutant degradation in the UV/peroxydisulfate AOP using both experimental and modeling approaches. Results showed that SO₄•⁻ was significantly scavenged by Cl⁻ at environmentally relevant concentrations (1–5000 mg/L). With increasing Cl⁻ concentrations from 1 to 5000 mg/L, Cl⁻ transformed SO₄•⁻ ...
... The precise cause of PM₂.₅ (fine particular matter with a diameter smaller than 2.5 μm) explosive growth and the contribution of intermittent turbulence to the dispersion of PM₂.₅ are uncertain. Thus, the impact of boundary-layer structure and turbulence on the variations of surface PM₂.₅ during fog–haze episodes, especially during explosive growth and dispersion episodes, are investigated using t ...
pollutants, etc ; aquifers; groundwater; seawater; solutes; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Transport of contaminants in coastal aquifers subject to tidal fluctuations is an important topic and a growing problem due to increasing populations and development in coastal areas. Many studies have used variable boundary conditions to simulate transport behavior at the interface between seawater and groundwater. However, to the best of our knowledge, no analytical solution accounting for varia ...
pollutants, etc ; combustion; kilns; pesticides; temperature; wastes; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Thermal disposal of organic hazardous wastes (OHWs) in a rotary kiln is an effective method to destroy organic pollutants and reduce the volume, but the complex interactions between various OHWs may result in sharp degradation on combustion performance and the increase in gaseous pollutants emission. Herein, three typical types of OHWs (i.e., pesticide waste, dyeing waste, and organic resin waste, ...
pollutants, etc ; bioretention areas; research; stormwater; toxicity; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Metals in stormwater can be toxic to organisms, particularly when occurring in truly dissolved form (fraction <3 kDa). Here, using 153 samples collected during six rains, we investigated intra-events variations of total, dissolved and truly dissolved metal concentrations in highway runoff, and how they were affected by a stormwater treatment train, comprising a gross pollutant trap (GPT) and a bio ...
pollutants, etc ; bisphenol A; environment; oxidation; sulfur; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The internal Fe²⁺/Fe³⁺ cycle is important for peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation by iron-based materials to produce the reactive oxidative species (ROS) for the breakdown of organic contaminants. Previous studies have focused on the contribution of heterogeneous sulfur species to the Fe²⁺/Fe³⁺ cycle such as lattice S(-II) and surface SO₃²– of iron sulfides. In this study, we found that the dissolv ...
... Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), in particular benzo(a)pyrene (BaP), are priority organic pollutants coming from various anthropogenic sources. The levels of accumulation and the spatial distribution of BaP in urban soils, road dust and their PM₁₀ particles (with a diameter of less than 10 microns) were for the first time determined for various land use zones and roads of different size in ...
pollutants, etc ; combustion; gasoline; hydrogen; turbulent flow; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The rotary engine constitutes promising propulsion for unmanned aerial vehicles, and creating turbulence within the rotor chamber is an effective means to strengthen the combustion of this engine concept since it is characterized by a unidirectional flow from the trailing side to the leading side of the rotor chamber. Based on CFD modeling, this work proposed a novel turbulence-induced blade (TIB) ...
pollutants, etc ; algorithms; landscapes; meteorology; prognosis; thermodynamics; wind; Show all 7 Subjects
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... This paper presents the variational diagnostic model and iterative procedure, which enables the wind field in subdomains to be adjusted. Diagnostic models are not time dependent. Consideration of more complex features of the thermodynamic structure requires models with high resolution, which require large calculation times. The model presented applies the variational approach and enables topograph ...
pollutants, etc ; data collection; drainage; energy; equations; uncertainty; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Due to the increased frequency and magnitude of urban flooding events, there is a pressing need to improve the accuracy of numerical tools to better assess the hydraulic performance of new drainage systems. Nowadays, such models are inherently challenging to verify due to the difficulty of acquiring reliable data during the flood event, meaning that most models are calibrated using only an estimat ...
pollutants, etc ; catalysts; gravity; nanosheets; pH; water treatment; Show all 6 Subjects
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... For the first time in this study, CoAl-layered double hydroxide nanosheet membrane (LDHₘ) with abundant active sites was fabricated for peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation with the mindset to catalytically degrade micropollutants. Depending on the catalyst loading, the developed LDHₘ can be driven under gravity at a permeate flux of approximately 80 L/m² h and 210 L/m² h at LDH loading of 0.80 mg/c ...
pollutants, etc ; ingestion; marine pollution; microplastics; risk; seabirds; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Ingestion of microplastics has been documented across marine species, but exposure remains sparsely described in many seabird species. We assess microplastic (between 0.2 and 5.0 mm) ingestion in two Northwestern Atantic - breeding species for which exposure to microplastics is entirely or largely undescribed: Common Terns (Sterna hirundo) and Roseate Terns (S. dougallii). Common Tern microplastic ...
pollutants, etc ; certification; diagnostic techniques; variance; South Africa; Show all 5 Subjects
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... RDE is becoming a necessary element of the emissions certification of automotive vehicles. Real Driving Emissions (RDE) helps to ensure that the regular operation of a car, or heavy vehicle, is still within the acceptable emissions standards while driving under normal conditions. RDE is monitored by connecting a Portable Emissions Measurement System (PEMS) to the exhaust of the tested vehicle, whi ...
pollutants, etc ; anodes; corrosion; electroplating; industry; pollution; zinc; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Lead (Pb) is the most widely used anode in zinc (Zn) electrowinning and other metallurgical industries. The resource loss and environmental pollution caused by Pb anode corrosion are urgent problems to be solved. A γ-MnO₂ precoated anode was prepared successfully to reduce the Pb-containing pollutant. The size effects with its controllable preparation on an industrial scale were studied. Severe no ...
pollutants, etc ; automobiles; human health; oxygen; soot; temperature; Show all 6 Subjects
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... As the main pollutant emitted by automobile engines, soot particles have brought great harm to the environment and human health. However, the soot formation process in automobile engines is very complex, which is influenced by many factors, such as fuel properties, temperature, pressure, and environmental oxygen concentration. So, researches on the soot formation mechanism are meaningful to contro ...
pollutants, etc ; environmental management; industry; models; steel; China; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The spatial layout of the steel industry has an impact on the regional atmospheric environment. In this study, the steel industry evolution model and the driving force analysis model were combined to analyze the evolution of spatial layout of the steel industry in China and the driving factors of this evolution. In addition, the WRF-SMOKE-CMAQ model was used to analyze the spatial dynamics of SO₂ ...