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After the preparation of Graphene Oxide (GO), from modified Hummers method there are two recommended washing steps: (i) with HCl and (ii) then with de-ionised water. Is it advisable to make the PH to neutral by addition of base like NaOH instead of washing with de-ionised water several times to remove acid  >??? 
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Dear V S,
Mind if I ask how you decided to proceed, and what was the outcome in the end?
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According to the pourbaix diagram of Fe(2+), it should be dissolve in pH<6, but it is solid even in pH=1. I realy dont know what is the reason.
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The ferrous chloride salt (possibly hydrated) can be generally expected to be partially oxidized, at least to trace level. When (freshly) dissolved in aq. dil. HCl, you may consider to reduce contaminant ferric ions to the ferrous state by adding electrolytic iron powder (a few wt% of the weighted salt). Then the sol. should be heated (not boiled) to facilitate ferric to ferrous reduction and the dissolution of any possibly excess of ferrous chloride; cooled to room temperature; being then either vacuum filtered while using nitrogen as blanketing gas, or pressure filtered by using nitrogen as pressurizing gas. Hydrogen can possibly be released during the purification process, owing to the concomitant reaction of metallic iron with HCl: Fe + 2HCl → FeCl2 + H2. Water should be either distilled or both deionized and N2-purged or boiled. The purified ferrous chloride / HCl aq. solution may then be redox-titrated, if required.
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I am currently synthesizing membranes for drinking water treatment and would like to use non-toxic solvents such as or better than Ethyl lactate. If you have done any research in this field or you know of any compound that I can use, kindly provide me with that information. 
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I want to estimate/calculate free CO2 in a freshwater lake. I have a dataset containing pH, DIC and a number of other parameters, both physical and chemical. But I do not have alkalinity.
But I haven't managed to find a solution therein and would be grateful if someone could point me in the right direction.
Here are the parameters I have:
soluble reactive phosphorus, total phosphorus, soluble phosphorus, nitrate, ammonium, dissolved nitrogen, total nitrogen, total silica, DIC, DOC, TOC, soluble reactive silica, chlorophyll a 1, chlorophyll a 2, chlorophyll a mean, water temperature, conductivity, depth, specified depth, pH, turbidity, phycocyanin, oxygen saturation, oxygen concentration, secchi depth
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Pouneh Shahrouz Ebrahimi Dorota Porowska Adding to this question, I have TIC concentration in ppm and pH data for my water samples. I want to calculate the concentrations of HCO3-and CO3- for these water samples. pH for all water samples vary between 7.1 to 7.8.
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One of the system dont have algal removal facility and the main treatment unit is slow sand filter . within a week we were observed floating slime and afterwards surface of the water fully covered by the slime and greenish algae, treated water also showing diurnal variation. how to control the algae without any alteration in the system  ? system capacity is around 2000m3/day. 
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You can add a blue cover on the top of your slow sand tank. It will help reduce the photosynthesis rate.
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I am trying to remove phosphate from wastewater sample and also recover them. Is there any material that only absorb phosphate from water? Therefore, which natural material should be appropriate to use as absorbent?
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Tamjid Us Sakib depends on the type of technology selection and project
microlage is preferred in case of biological and if you have space and time with low cost investment however if you go via chemical route there are many like activated carbon, haaluminum sulphate or few other sales can also be used
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Hi,
I'm looking to do a study utilizing a pH sensor for soil pH measurments, among other variables. Essentially i want to create a embedded system that automatically takes pH soil measurments of a pot from several angles(4 or 8 points around 360 degrees) and depths, to get a more complete understanding of pH across the pot soil profile.
Reading up about soil chemistry, soil pH measurments and how different pH sensors work i understand that it's quite complex. Initially using a mechanical sensor arm take either in situ soil pH measruments, or take out a small sample(done by the arm) and create soil suspension to measure on.
What complicates things quite quickly given the nature of pH measurments with pH electrodes when it comes to necessary procedures for storage, cleaning and measurment(in situ would be preferable). ISFET sensors would be great for this application they can be stored dry, easier to maintain etc(from what i've read), but they are hard to come by if not expensive.
The idea of measuring pH of soil water drainage from different points across the pot would simplify things alot, the arm and mechanical measurment mechanims could be excluded from the design.
However i can't find littarture or articles covering the relation between soil pH and soil water pH in a clear way. Thinking about it, it would be logical to assume that pH from extracted soil water, would for most soils correlate strongly with pH of soil, but not be exact to soil pH of the same spot.
Could anyone enlighten me about this? Or direct me to research articles or littature clearly describing this relationsship?
Best regards,
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Both are negative logarithm of hydrogen ion. Apparently soil pH is measured with 1:2 ratio soil : distilled water. And soil water pH is directly measured by pocket pH meter in wetted soils. So both are more or less same.
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The same water samples were filtered at 0.45 µm and 0.02 µm, using respectively Whatman® membrane filters nylon and Whatman® Anotop® 10 syringe filters. The water samples were kept in plastic bottles, and iron and aluminium were measured using ICP-AES. Iron concentrations are, as it should, higher in 0.45 µm than in 0.02 µm filtered water. However, aluminium concentrations are higher in 0.02 µm filtered water.
How would you explain this result for the aluminium? Could a sample be contaminated and, if so, which one would it most likely be (0.45 µm or 0.02 µm) and where would the contamination come from? Could colloidal aluminium adsorb on the plastic bottle used for storage?
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Samples were probably switched....
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Excess of fluoride content in drinking water (more than 1.5mg/L) sourced from inland water bodies causes dental fluorosis and skeletal fluorosis. Although reverse osmosis (RO), electrodialysis, and distillation are available for deflouridating inland water bodies. However am not sure that how effective these methods can be used to deflouridate groundwater. I would like to hear some suggestions on the mechanisms effective at deflouridation of groundwater.
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Deflouridation techniques are simple and can be explained like Bone charcoal, contact precipitation, Algona, activated alumina, ion-exchange technology, membrane filtration, nanofiltration, and clay are all methods for defluoridating water that can be used. Reverse osmosis (RO), electrodialysis, and distillation are examples of cutting-edge treatment methods.
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It's silly, but I want to make sure that I am not changing the pH and ORP when I dilute my solution
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Not sure about ORP, but pH will definitely change. As you dilute acidic solution with water, the concentration of H+ in the final medium decreases, pH= -log[H+] so then pH will increase.
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We are setting up a water filtration system for our bivalves hatchery, the water should be pristine (clear) & clean for to be use in operation.
Seawater was pump directly from the sea, into our sedimentation pond (earthen), then pump into the holding tank in the hatchery that undergo filtration via sand filters.
The water have a slight yellow tint, the colour is very obvious in large volume. Hence, we thought to remedy via chlorination (domestic Clorox) and ozonating the water.
But, instead of purifying the water, it became more orangey-tint, and it stained the water container.
suspect for high concentration of irons, so sent the water from both pond and hatchery for analysis, but the iron level is normal (0.03-0.06 mg/L)
any expert or experiences individual know what/why this occurring and how to remedy the problem?
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  • Prosper Eguono Ovuoraye , that might be an option but I prefer be done in economical sense
  • Amihan Grande, indeed but the issue is actually on technical side. In culture bivalves especially oyster need pristine clear water, we need to monitor oyster spat that are size of tiny black dot, which can be seen with coloured water. It does not help that the algae used in feeding is brown algae. Thus, we can differentiate the algae has been eaten by the oyster or not
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Please, can you suggest a high graphical resolution software for creating hydrogeochemical graphs, especially for Gibb's diagrams?
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Much chemical process modelling and/or simulation work can be done with the widely-used Microsoft’s Excel.
Application example ― Simulations carried in Excel 5.0 with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros ― The recursive least squares algorithm (RLS) allows for (real-time) dynamical application of least squares regression to time series. Years ago, while investigating adaptive control and energetic optimization of aerobic fermenters, I have applied the RLS algorithm with forgetting factor (RLS-FF) to estimate the parameters from the KLa correlation, used to predict the O2 gas-liquid mass-transfer, while giving increased weight to most recent data. Estimates were improved by imposing sinusoidal disturbance to air flow and agitation speed (manipulated variables). The power dissipated by agitation was accessed by a torque meter (pilot plant). The proposed (adaptive) control algorithm compared favourably with PID. Simulations assessed the effect of numerically generated white Gaussian noise (2-sigma truncated) and of first order delay. This investigation was reported at (MSc Thesis):
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Hello all,
i am new to water chemistry, i have been looking at trends in the water chemistry parameters, and found there is significant decreasing trend in Stream-water temperature, Ca, Mg, Na, and chloride along with discharge both in the monsoon and non-monsoon seasons.
Like From Jan 1994, Jan 1995, Jan 1996...... Jan 2018 (for Non-Monsoon period) Sept 1994, sept 1995, sept 1996...................Sept 2018 (Monsoon period)
Note- watershed (1000 km2 drainage area, Western Ghats, India) is free from dams and other water structures.
What could be possible drivers of trends in the above parameters?
Please provide your valuable suggestions.
Thanks in advance.
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Rajat
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A couple of my earliest Researchgate entries and citations may be informative, even though different conditions. Many water quality parameters have influence from flow rate (discharge), and in part often due to rainfall dilution effect, runoff and movement of sediment and other non-point pollutants and nutrients during storms. You may find a hysteresis effect with markedly higher values during rising limb of hydrograph, and lower rates as hydrograph recedes. Geology and groundwater and its chemistry influences contribute to varying degrees as some streams loose water to groundwater, while others gain water inputs from groundwater for substantial periods of time. There are many books and papers on the subject, as well as professional or informational courses. It is not unusual to find these trends. Stream temperature in many locations increases in the summer growing season as more solar radiation, higher temperatures with lower streamflow often combine to elevate temperatures. Streams heavily augmented by groundwater or springflow as well as dense forest cover have substantially less effect than conditions without these benefits. In one of my studies, mountain streams without dense forest cover actually had lower winter temperatures, so forested stream buffers may have a moderating effect on temperature extremes in both summer and winter. It is highly useful to have recording water levels to estimate flow rates with time. A relative moderate expense tool for this is transducer (vented or barometric adjusted unvented). Streams with excessive sediment may contribute to transducer fouling, but properly installed, they can collect high quality data for weeks or months without service. The USGS collects flow data every 15 minutes, and appropriate for your study area. For small catchments, more frequent readings may be needed. A variety of tools or techniques are available to collect samples during storms or more routinely, if ample research funding exists.
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I would like to use calcium chloride in the irrigation system but not sure the most soluble form?
Calcium chloride dihydrate
Calcium chloride hexahydrate
Calcium chloride granules
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The anode and cathode surfaces are considered or just the anode?
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I ask me the same question. Last month I read that an autor used only the anode surfaces, but doubled surface, aparently because it was an monopolar electrode.
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I want to treat sliced carrots in ozonated water. The dosage i will apply is 1uL/mL i.e. 1 uL ozone/mL oxygen gas. If somebody could please help me with the amount of water I should take.
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You can use a device to generate ozone and this device gives a specific concentration according to the time that the device is set to, for example, if it is set at a time of five minutes, the concentration will give you is 0.2 ppm, for example, and so on, and you can measure the concentration also with a specific kit, and ozone is a gas that dissolves quickly with water to give the roots that are responsible for its strong oxidizing power, the period during which it remains effective depends on the temperatures in the cold, its effectiveness extends further, and the concentration, contact time and other factors that may affect it, especially since we are dealing with foodstuffs, i.e. organic materials, so the presence of organic materials also reduces its effectiveness. For me, I used an ozone generating device (A2Z/AQUA-6, USA) which is simple to use and cost-effective for treating meat, and CHE-Mets®-Kit, USA to measure the ozone concentration generated in the water.
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I have to prepare a solution of 100ml 0,5N Phosporic Acid  from 85% Phosporic acid,that I already have.
Following the formula W= XEV/1000, I would have the following:
XEV/1000= 4,8985 gm  --> (being X=Molarity or Normality; E=97.97; V=100)
Vol= 4,8985/1,685= 2,907 ml --> (V=mass/density)
Would it be proper to add this volume of 85% Phosporic acid and water up to the desired final volume of 100ml?
Thanks a lot,
Miguel
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How to prepare 0.02M orthophosphoric acid solution?
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Dear to whom it may concern,
Based on ChemAxon, I calculated pKa values of Acesulfame as follows:
1. pKa (Strongest Acidic): 3.02
2. pKa (Strongest Basic): -6
Because I would like to convert Acesulfame Potassium into Acesulfame, I intend to use a stronger acid such as HCOOH or HCl than Acesulfame to do this conversion.
I am wondering whether this approach will really work or not.
May you please share your opinion with me?
Thanks in advance,
Quynh Khoa Pham.
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Quynh - I found a detailed description of the procedure for converting acesulfame potassium into acesulfame. It is published in a paper entitled "Polymorphism in acesulfame sweetener: Structure-property and stability relationships of bending and brittle crystals" which was published in Chemical Communications 2010, 46, 2562-3564. The Electronic Supplementary Information (ESI) is available free of charge (see attached).
Neutralization of Acesulfame potassium (Ace K)
It was obtained from Sigma Aldrich at a stated purity of 99% and no attempt was made at further purification. Ace K (5 g) was dissolved in water (5 mL), neutralized with concentrated HCl (5 mL) and achieved the highly acidic solution of ~ pH =2 and extracted with ethyl acetate (15 mL). Up on routine work up afforded a white solid of salt free acesulfame. It was crystallized from EtOAc by slow evaporation at the ambient conditions. Needle crystals were yielded. Mp: 122- 124 °C.
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We use the tried and true ammonium molybdate / potassium antimonyl tartrate react in acid medium with reduction to an intensely colored molybdenum blue by ascorbic acid.
The resulting solution is supposed to be colorless, but no matter what we try, the solution always turns yellow. The problem appears to be the ascorbic acid. We tried refrigerating it, storing it under vacuum, and the campus chaplain tried to perform an exorcism. Nothing worked.
I did have some luck recrystalizing the ascorbic acid but is there a better way?
The EPA method mentions using a small amount of acetone as a preservative
Thank you
Kevin
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I have reviewed in the literature "experimental correlations" of Ra with species (calcium, sulfate, etc). However, the linear adjustments are not the most satisfactory in analytical terms. Are there other ways of correlations ionic species?.
Greetings. Ender
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Dear Ender,
Did you manage to find a satisfactory correlation?
This is a late comment to the question, but it is important to remember that Radium comes from the U and Th decay chains, they are the provider of this element.
Try taking the ratio e.g. 226Ra/238U to first normalize the concentration, since, high U concentrations will almost always lead to high Ra concentrations, no matter what sample you are looking at.
After that, you can try to find a correlation with any other parameter you have measured through e.g. HCA or PCA.
Manganese (and Iron) is an element that is used in the radiochemical procedures of concentrating Radium, might be worth considering also.
Kind regards
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Microbrewing continues to expand across the globe with many US communities utilizing breweries as new social venues to meet-greet and participate in social activities. What do you perceive as interesting research questions related to brewing science as well as the interaction and impact to local communities?
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Although the cost of raw material in a brewery does not represent the main source of expenditure, studies that seek to reduce the amount of raw material (water, malt, hops and yeast) are important. If we look at hops, for example, the reduction in the amount of hops used in breweries directly affects environmental issues. Obviously without losing the quality of the beer.
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We measured several water chemistry parameters (nitrate, DOC, EC, pH, Tre..) every 50m in the stream network of six headwater catchments.
Has anybody done that before, and what geostatistical method would you use to describe/interpret the spatial patterns we observed?
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A good reference for water quality transects and geostatistical models, focusing on kriging methods: Holbach, A., Wang, L., Chen, H. et al. Water mass interaction in the confluence zone of the Daning River and the Yangtze River—a driving force for algal growth in the Three Gorges Reservoir. Environ Sci Pollut Res 20, 7027–7037 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-012-1373-3
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during chemical analysis of groundwater of an industrial area, we found the concentration of fluoride in the range 0.15-0.32 mg/L, the pH of the water was found to be in the range 7.5-8.2 and bicarbonate alkalinity were found in the range 1000-5000mg/L.
please help me in  this regard
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depending on the nature of the soil, you can find a lot; or little fluoride.
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Important physical and chemical parameters of water are influenced by temperature, pH, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and redox potential. Others are total suspended and dissolved solids, nutrients, heavy metal contaminants, etc [1].
Correlation between Conductance and TDS
Conductivity or electrical conductivity (EC) and total dissolved solids (TDS) are frequently used as water quality parameters. The value of EC and TDS are correlated. EC is the measure of liquid capacity to conduct an electric charge. Its ability depends on dissolved ion concentrations, ionic strength, and temperature of measurements. The dissolved ions concentration is usually measured as TDS. EC can be measured easily and inexpensively in situ by a portable water quality checker. On the other hand, the analysis of TDS is more difficult and expensive as it needs more equipment and time. Researchers have done various investigations to find out the precise mathematical correlation between these two parameters, so TDS concentration can be simply calculated from the EC value. The correlation of these parameters can be estimated by the following equation:
TDS ( mg L ) = k x EC ( μS cm) (1)
The value of k will increase along with the increase of ions in water. However, the relationship between conductivity and TDS is not directly linear; it depends on the activity of specific dissolved ions average activity of all ions in the liquid, and ionic strength [2].
Temperature and TDS
The conductivity of ions in water depends on the water temperature. Ions move faster when the water is warm. Hence, the apparent conductivity is increased when the water has a higher temperature [3].
It works pretty well but conductivity is temperature-dependent. The conductivity of ions in water depends on the water temperature. Ions move faster when the water is warm. Hence, the apparent conductivity is increased when the water has a higher temperature [4]
Temperature is also important because of its influence on water chemistry. The rate of chemical reactions generally increases at higher temperatures. Water, particularly groundwater, with higher temperatures can dissolve more minerals from the surrounding rock and will, therefore, have a higher electrical conductivity [5].
Evaporation and TDS
If it is exactly the same source of water, and no evaporation has occurred, TDS will be the same. If some evaporation has occurred, then the solute is more concentrated, so TDS is higher. As temperature increases, both the water molecules and the dissolved ions become more mobile and the conductivity increases, so even for exactly the same sample at different temperatures, with no evaporation to concentrate the solids, the reading will be different. It is because of the measurement method. As long as the temperature and composition remain the same, the conductivity of the water will not change. So the rate of diffuse is directly proportional to TDS [6].
Two things are at play when you measured your water’s TDS: first, warm water evaporates faster than cooler water. This leads to the minerals being concentrated. Thus, higher TDS reading. Second, the way the meter operates is by measuring and calculating based on the specific conductance of the water. It is measuring the salt content. Warmer water has higher conductance than cooler water. Again, higher conductance equal higher TDS. Temperature changes will often change the conductivity of various materials, and this may be interpreted by the meter as a higher reading [7].
Velocity (turbulence) and TDS
Stirring a solute into a solvent speeds up the rate of dissolving because it helps distribute the solute particles throughout the solvent. For example, when you add sugar to iced tea and then stir the tea, the sugar will dissolve faster
The rate of dissolving of a solute in a solvent is faster when the solute and solvent are stirred, the solvent is warmer, or the solute consists of smaller particles with more surface area. If there is turbulence or there is the velocity in water then there is an increase in the rate of solubility and TDS will be increased [8].
Surface water (velocity containing water) supplies such as lakes and rivers that are exposed to the sun are richer in organics may or may not have biological oxygen demand. Surface waters also contain more fine silt and more dissolved minerals because they have had more water movement and been exposed to more minerals. Water from deep wells is almost always colder than surface waters. It has been filtered naturally through layers of stone and thus has fewer minerals. The definition of the deepwater well is one that does not contain organics. Shallow wells often contain organics [9].
The solubility of solutes and TDS
Increasing the temperature increases the solubility of solids and liquids.
The solubility of solutes is dependent on temperature. When a solid dissolves in a liquid, a change in the physical state of the solid analogous to melting takes place. Heat is required to break the bonds holding the molecules in the solid together. At the same time, heat is given off during the formation of new solute-solvent bonds.
CASE I: Decrease in solubility with temperature: If the heat given off in the dissolving process is greater than the heat required to break apart the solid, the net dissolving reaction is exothermic (energy is given off). The addition of more heat (increases temperature) inhibits the dissolving reaction since excess heat is already being produced by the reaction. This situation is not very common where an increase in temperature produces decrease insolubility.
CASE II: Increase in solubility with temperature: If the heat given off in the dissolving reaction is less than the heat required to break apart the solid, the net dissolving reaction is endothermic (energy required). The addition of more heat facilitates the dissolving reaction by providing energy to break bonds in the solid. This is the most common situation where an increase in temperature produces an increase in solubility for solids.
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Well,
From a geo-hydrological point of view;
Absolutely in such a case the value of the recharge water added to the water of the lagoon is greater than its value as outflow from the water system. The subject needs information about the amount of recharge water coming from the groundwater and/or the amount of rainfall, meaning there is a need to study the water balance in this region.
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Have the aqueous waste which contains 20-75 ppm of cyanide waste. Need to bring down the cyanide level to 0.1 ppm. Have tried some conditions but were  able to get upto 8 ppm.
Kindly suggest any robust method to achieve cyanide level below 0.1 ppm.
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Please see this methods for removal of cyanide using ferrous sulphate
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Hi all,
I'm gonna study the impacts of the rise of production wells numbers (for irrigation purpose), LU/LC changes on the groundwater in a flat area where  river branch, main canal and many irrigation and drainage canals run through. The main aquifer in this area is recharged from the surface water (i.e. river branch, main canals, and irrigation and drainage canals) and the infiltration of excess irrigation water. The aquifer is semi-confined to phreatic (leaky aquifer). In addition, it is highly conductive with hydraulic conductivity ranging from 80 to 100 m /day, that is because it consists mainly of sand and gravels with clay lenses. Unfortunately, there is no a systematic monitoring for the water level, water chemistry or actual management for this aquifer. There are too many research works in different ways (e.g. geologic, hydrogeology, hydrogeochemistry,..etc.) have been done. There is no actual estimation for recharge quantity, monitoring for the impact of the anthropogonic activities on this aquifer. I have studied some samples from  3 wells, 2 shallow wells (25 m deep and 2.5 inches diameter) and one deep (65 m deep and 8 inches diameter). One of the two shallows is hand pump tube well and located close to the urban area (in agricultural land) with peizometric level, 10.4 m  and nitrate concentration, 6 ppm. And the second shallow well is being pumping using pump machine and located in urban area, north east the first shallow well with approximately distance 1 km long, with peizometric level of 10.3 m and nitrate concentration, 100 ppm. The deep well (the third one) is located north the second shallow well with distance 1 km long, peizometric level is 10.3 m and nitrate concentration is 3 ppm, which located at agricultural land. The second shallow well and the deeper one are both located close to drain canal with its nitrate concentration not more than 40 ppm as literature's result . I believed that the highly pumping rate is the main factor that gives the high nitrate value for the second shallow well. I really need to study the large area with many urban areas surrounded by agricultural lands, and find out the pollutions anomalies. I will measure CFCs as indicator of the recent recharge, GMS model to simulate the nitrate transport and the future prediction of its concentration, main ions, N15  to find the source of the nitrate and total coliforms . I really interested to find a valuable solutions for such problem. So if some one interested to help me in such study or give me advises, ideas and recommendations to how can I study the nitrate pollution anomaly, estimate and quantify the groundwater recharge, and study the impacts of the high density of wells (for irrigation purpose) on the quality and quantity of the groundwater in this area, I will be greatly appreciate.
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I think that a NO3- / Cl- Vs Cl- binary graph can inform you about the probable origin of nitrates.
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Dear all,
I would like to collect soil water for isotopic and chemical analysis, Soil types found in my area are clay, clayey loam and gravelly clay. Can anybody suggest what is appropriate method of collecting soil water upto 1-3 meters in these soil types?
Thanking You all in advance..
Warm Regards
Rajat
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In one of my experiment, some adsorbent is used for the removal of heavy metals from water. Now I want to recover the metal from residues.
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First of all, It depends on the type of adsorbent material that you used.
In heavy metal removal processes, desorption/regeneration of adsorbents is one of the essential aspects as it controls the economy of water treatment technology.
For effective regeneration of adsorbents and metal recovery, acids (such as HCl, H2SO4, HNO3, HCOOH and CH3COOH), alkalis (such as NaOH, NaHCO3, Na2
CO3, KOH and K2CO3), salts (such as NaCl, KCl, (NH4)2SO4, CaCl22H2O, NH4NO3, KNO3 and C6H5Na3O72H2O), deionized water, chelating agents and buffer solutions (such as bicarbonate, phosphate and tris) were used in various studies.
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As you know, one way to tackle water & wastewater pollution is synthesize adsorbents which their raw material obtains from polluted sources (Take synthesize refinery sludge-based activated carbon to remove hydrocarbon pollutants from refinery wastewater as an example).
- It is an attractive and challenging approach, isn't it?
- What is your opinion about this approach?
- And what are other ideas, examples, and methods -based on pollution to solution- that are interesting to do some research on them?
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Good Thinking
To maximize the benefits for the environment and residents of the area, every region should commit to investing carbon revenue in clean energy and adopt the best practices for investment of carbon cap revenue.
1. Focus on energy efficiency.
2. Help unlock private investments in clean energy.
3. Extend the benefits of clean energy to low- and middle-income households
4. Incentivize local governments to adopt clean energy.
5. Reduce pollution from sources other than electricity generation
6. Advance the next generation of clean energy technologies.
7. The most basic solution for air pollution is to move away from fossil fuels, replacing them with alternative energies like solar, wind and geothermal. Producing clean energy is crucial. But equally important is to reduce our consumption of energy by adopting responsible habits and using more efficient devices..
8. Introduce Post-combustion controls, Improve Industrial emission standards, Improve Emission standards for road vehicles, Vehicle inspection and maintenance,
9. Residential waste burning turn into compost, Prevention of forest and peat land fires, Livestock manure management, Improve the use of Nitrogen fertilizers, Improve Brick Ovens, International shipping
10. Solvent use and refineries(Introduce low-solvent paints for industrial and do-it-yourself applications; leak detection; incineration and recovery)
11. Go for Clean cooking and heating, Switch to renewables for power generation, Improve Energy efficiency for households
12. Enforce energy efficiency standards for industries
13. Promote Electric vehicles, Improve public transport
14. Solid waste Management, Agricultural Management of Rice paddies
15. Wastewater treatment, Improve efficiency of existing Coal mining
16. Improve existing Oil and gas production, Replace refrigerant fluids.
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I am conducting an adsorption test (of Cr6+) on an adsorbent.
I did the adsorption tests without background electrolyte(BE) by just dissolving the Cr source in Milli-Q water. I also did a test with different background electrolytes (0.01-.1M NaCl, KCl, CaCl2, NaNO3).
Can somebody with experience on adsorption tests enlightment me. Thanks a lot!
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Hi.
Short comment: yes, electrolytes will have effects on the adsorption of metals. The effect is, however, different depending on the specific nature of species of interest, structure of the adsorbent and type of adsorption phenomena. You should be extra carefull with species that generate diferent ions as functions of properties of the aqueous phase, as for example, CR6+. The ion will be Cr2O7 (2-) in acid pH and CrO4 2- in basic pH.
This article is a very good review of what you need. Start by reading it carefully.
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Ex: Think total hardness is 200ppm. Total treated water requirement is 5000L/day.
Then how calculated the
a) Softener vessel size?
b) Required resin volume?
c) Salt regeneration time?
d) Dosage of salt?
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Ideally, a water softener should be sized so that it does not regenerate any more often that every three days (wastes water and salt), nor go longer than 14 days before regenerating (can cause compacting of resin, and fouling with sediment or iron). 7 days between regenerations is probably best - especially if iron is present. For the majority of homes, our 1 cubic foot unit is more than enough capacity. There are conditions that would create a need for a larger unit: larger family (6 or more) and/or very hard water (over 15 grains). Use the following formula to calculate the proper size: 1. Multiply the number of people in your family times 70 (gallons of water used per day, national average). 2. Multiply the answer by your water hardness in grains per gallon (to convert mg/l or ppm to grains, divide by 17.1). If iron is present, add 5 grains for every ppm (mg/l) of iron (iron MUST be dissolved iron - it appears clear from the tap but leaves reddish-brown stains). 3. This is your "grains per day" number. Divide this number into each of the softener capacities until you find the best size.
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The impact of soil erosion on water quality/chemistry appears to be well-known. However, the impact of water chemistry on soil erosion seems not to be well-known.
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Well,
Mainly TDS, which including all dissolve ions(Cations and Anions)and trace elements.
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Bottle drinking water contained many floc. What is the reason? This water produced from fully automated systems.
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Normal flocs which form during coagulation-flocculation in alum treatment can be removed by sand filtration. But some flocs form in bottled water, reason is not clear how it can be removed. Please find out it.
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In environmental chemistry, the chemical oxygen demand (COD) test is commonly used to indirectly measure the amount of organic compounds in water. Most applications of COD determine the amount of organic pollutants found in surface water (e.g. lakes and rivers) or wastewater, making COD a useful measure of water quality. It is expressed in milligrams per litre(mg/L), which indicates the mass of oxygen consumed per litre of solution. But how could we estimate the amount of Organics by the COD of waste water? I wanna set up a calculation relationship between the organics content and wastewater COD.
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Different groups favor different methods; I would greatly appreciate more input on the debate. Assume all bottle types are cleaned thoroughly and samples are being analyzed in the lab for Methylmercuy (MeHg), Total mercury (THg), both filtered and/or unfiltered. Other considerations: remote work, trace-level contamination, freezing vs. acidification.
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In a unique condition, hot springs and cold springs are found to occur at close proximity. It is observed that the springs has similar chemical composition. What could be the reason(s) for this?
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So its clearly that the granite minerals don't dissolve or weather in such range of temperature. Therefore you have got such similarity in chemical composition. Furthermore the changing of temperature affect only the speciation distribution of each element, so that the total concentration of it remain the same.
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Water quality also can have impact on irrigation equipment. Let's talk about possible impacts of water chemistry on irrigation equipment.
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Dear Kumar,
Actually, Chemistry of irrigation water directly affect the irrigation equipment. Specilly steel and metallic component of the equipment.
1 corrosion is the major issue.
water with higher DO and Acid water are responsible for higher corosion rate.
Salt, specilly chlorid stimulate the corosion.
2. Irrigation water with higher hardness (Ca2+ & Mg2+) is responsible to presipitate in salt in Irrigation line/cooling system of quipment.
Piyal Aravinna
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If there is an intrusion of sea-water into freshwater aquifers, whether the cat-ion exchange is sufficient to account for the change in water chemistry?
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While sea intrusion is recognized as the mixing of sea water into freshwater aquifers. Coastal aquifers are increasingly threaten by sea water intrusion due to increased urbanization, groundwater exploitation, and global sea level rise. Pattern diagrams, which constitute the outcome of several hydro - geochemical processes, have traditionally been used to character vulnerability to sea water intrusion. The cation exchange occurs when equilibrium in the groundwater is disturbed by seawater intrusion. A groundwater quality index for seawater is developed to estimate seawater mixing and water mixing domain. The index is validated with data from worldwide coastal aquifers using GIS spatial analysis. The index constitutes a key indicator in aquifer exploitation to meet growing water demands.
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We are trying to quantify synchrony in water chemistry variation among several hundred sites. For each site we have a time-series of concentration. We'd like to quantify the overall temporal covariance (are concentrations going up and down at the same time) among the sites and are interested in different statistical approaches to to do this. The different chemistry parameters have very different absolute concentrations (e.g. 1-100 ppm for carbon, 0.001 to 1 ppm for phosphorus) so a relative metric is necessary. We have done this previously with the average pairwise scaled covariance (), but there may be a more elegant method . . . Thanks!
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We faced with the same problem. Once we used segmented regression to determine the breaking point in time series. But later, we need to compare the similarity between several time series trends and found statistical cointegration tests, for example, Engle-Granger two- step method (Xlstat).
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Which one is the best method of degassing, is it HPLC (Waters) in-line degasser? or manually degass with sonicator? Please give some facts and reasons.
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Good afternoon,
I would recommend the use sonicator
30 minutes of sonication is usually enough
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I want to estimate the sulfide concentration in the wastewater. What is the sensitivity of methylene blue method (detection limit - how much ppm?, maximum how much i can quantify the sulfide?). Please anyone suggest easy and reliable method for sulfide estimation in the wastewater containg high sulfide concentration.
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Check first the Standard Methods for Water and Wastewater analysis....then chosee.
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I am trying to use RO modelling software but not getting recovery more than 40%. Can anyone suggest how to increase recovery with such a highly concentrated feed? My water chemistry is not completely balanced I guess. But dont have anything other than ammonia in my feed. I want make ammonia rich product and use it. I am using winflows software for modelling. Please help.
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my company puts its specifications at a range of 350 -1000ppm but all the diocuments I read give me 150 - 350ppm yet I have always found it difficult to get that specification of 350 and above?
and if i try addind caustic the PH of course shoots to above 12 < what should I do?
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Mr. Andrew Butler.., O'Alk is actually Hydroxide alkalinity( i mean we are only looking at hydroxyl ions) within the boiler water sample
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Best protocol to measuring soluble phosphate in NBRIP broth medium
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Thank you for your kind reply.
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Should there be any differences in water chemistry of a stream site (pool/waterhole) once flow/discharge ceases? At depth?
As the flow ceases and the water evaporates and stratifies, there will be differences in ph, DO and temperature at depth, but does this transpire to significant changes in other water chemistry parameters?
Alos, I have water chemsitry data coleected from the surface at a number of sites over time with varying flow/discharge - down to zero flow. I want to test to see if there are significant differences based on the discharge and time since flow ceased. I was considering using PCA to explaore the relationship between flow and time since flow. Any other suggestions?
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It depends on the site. You should expect at least 4 principal factors that could change chemistry: 1. baseflow contribution (regional/local groundwater discharge) that affects mixing reactions, 2. evaporation that changes mineral concentrations and associated equilibria, 3.gassing/degassing associated with bacterially derived reactions related to plant root zones/soils (e.g. pCO2 and pH that will affect carbonate equilibrium), and 4. changing redox states as the source of oxygen rich surface water flow trickles down to nothing. Of course, these are all inter-related. Think about what conservative and reactive analytical parameters you would have to measure to gain insight on these processes. Focus on CHONS chemistry and stable isotopes.
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I am looking on calcium carbonate precipitation in seawater and would like to know how (or to what extent) anions (PO43-, CO32-, SO42-) and cations (Ca2+, Mg2+) draw water molecules into the calcium carbonate crystals lattice during precipitation. Also, how stable is the bonding between these ions and the water molecules?
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what about thermal analysis techniques , (DTA) or TGA , as the mass change of as function of temperature or time , just a sugesstion
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We recently aproved a grant for a project, and now we are searching the best equipment. Besides the already mentioned parameters, analysis of water hardness, nitrates, nitrites and phosphate would also be welcome. Some collegues told me already about equipments from Horiba and Hanna. Other suggestions?
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hello
I recommend НАСН products to measure water pollutants
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For studying water chemistry, phytoplankton analysis or microbial analyses? 
Thanks in Advance for the valuable answers. 
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Cowardin et al classification attached as one method to stratify units for sampling. I do not expect you would find a cook book approach, but reading about studies that have answered some of the questions about water quality and aquatic habitat, and consultation with the various types of aquatic specialists may be helpful to you as your proceed. Sometimes one might do a preliminary study before preceding. Often times, in lentic systems, measuring streamflow is very helpful to separate processes that occur during storms, baseflow, first storms after autumn leaf fall, variability of upstream land use activity, etc.
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When pH of the solution change ORP value also change or not. What happen the pH of water when ozone is dissolved into water
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I will gratuitously seize this opportunity to slide in a side-question about correlating ORP+pH+Temp to aqueous H2S concentration in groundwater.
A sensor manufacturer suggested that H2S concentration could be inferred from measured values of pH+ORP+Temp sensors and calibrated against H2S concentration.
Is this plausible and if so, what is the essential technique ?
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Results has been over 7 even with hardness in conformity.
Every columns and filters are new and the ion exchange resin is 50% anionic and 50% cationic.
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In cases of water after purification,it is recomended to add a little KCl to ha ve the real value of pH.----
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THe sample is a lake with 23725 µS/cm conductivity
pH 8,85
alcalinity   178,20 mg CaCO3/L
FIXED WITH LUGOL
size more or less 28 x 15 microns
i think that perhaps  could be a raphydophyceae ( Chattonella ?) or perhaps a Chromulina ???
In photo m1 one of them is eating a Amphora.
Thanks in advance, any idea can help me
Maria 
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Looking foreword - thank you very much
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Coagulation-flocculation 
Water treatment 
Wastewater treatment 
Alum
Natural coagulants 
Zeta potential 
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Actually your article states some connection between aluminium in occurring in the brain and neurological disorders. "Many scientific articles are available,covering various aspects aluminum toxicity like the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative disorders (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson dementia, Alzheimer’s disease)." These conditions are caused by other physiological disorders and not related to drinking aluminium contaminated water.
If a hospital use water with very high aluminium concentrations for dialysis it can cause "dialysis encephalopathy" which is mentioned in your paper and in patients poisoned with aluminium in this manner some neurological effects similar to Alzheimer's occur.
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Coagulation-flocculation
Water treatment 
Wastewater treatment 
Neutralisation 
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No, it is not recommendable
The pH varies and depends strongly on the coagulant used and the quality of the water to be treated
There is no general rule for this reason that the Jar Test tests are strongly recommended
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Is there any method to quantify the chlorine ion in water?
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Greeting Arun Kumar. Since you want to follow method, titration approach is very widely used and easily to perform. an link is attached below.
Hope you find it useful.
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Dear fellow researchers, I am Master Student of Vienna University of Life Science and Im working on MFI vs SDI project. I am stuck on the curve calculation and I am kindly asking how to do so. On excel I have the values of litters the filter have filtered and the second of which it required to filter. So to get the s/L vs L curve I am dividing the seconds by the litters ( without no minus V2-V1) and if I get the curve it has a sharp point which looks nothing like the previous research works. The water is normal brine water with 250 mg/l TDSMFI
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Specifically arsenic bearing liquid discards. I have the information on solid wastes.
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Hi Harold,
I am not sure what are you asking but I wanna know the arsenic present in liquid discards from any drinking water treatment plant.
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Hello.I hope you have a good day. I'm using cationic resin form H+ for reducing the hardness and EC(electrical conductivity) of water.now in my experiments the hardness of water has decreased ,but EC has increased. To what extent H+ ion can affect EC in water? I want you to suggest me a solution that how can I reduce EC ?i appreciate it.
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Good question
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Hello every one.
We are working on a project for some industry and we have treated its wastewater with electrocoagulation flotation (ECF) technology successfully. However because of that the final water from wastewater plant will be recycled as a process water, at the end of the wastewater system there is a reverse osmosis. The effluent from the ECF process has oil and grease= 7.5 mg/l and the oil content reduces to 4 mg/l with the aid of active carbon filter but this rate of oil is harmful for the RO. I need a process to remove this amount of oil to 0.1 mg/l (the limit for dissolved oil in water to enter RO) which process do you suggest to me!?
P.S.: 1-DAF (dissolved air flotation)can not be used since its mechanism is the same as electrocoagulation so it will not reduce any further oil.
2-Ultrafiltration is not favored because only ceramic UF should be used (because of the oil) so it will be expensive especially for treating it from 4 mg/l to 0.1 mg/l!
I appreciate your assistance in advance.
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I have some test results for Chromium (totals and dissolved) and the dissolved levels are higher than the totals How is this possible even though all quality controls are acceptable ? that's mean 100 % of chromium is in dissolved state?
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If you measure dissolved Cr without digestion maybe you have some kind of positive interference in your matrix. Try to digest the sample after filtration (and take care of blanks)
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I have an equation to calculate the amount of coagulant required to remove colour from water samples which uses Hazen units. I have absorbance values which I would need to covert to Hazen units, anybody know of an easy way to do this
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Dear Dr
TCU= 1 Mg/l (Pt (Chloro-pelatinate))+0.5 Mg/l CO (element).
1 Mg/l Pt-CO= 1 HAZEN
I hope i could response to your question.
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I wish to perform bulk electrolysis of samples which may take some time and don't want microbial activity to alternate the results.
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Dear David,
Can you give any idea about your solution and why are you thinking it will get bacterial contamination?
Is the autoclaving of the solution is not possible before the experiment?   
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Here i use iron nanoparticle in textile waste water to degtader DOM. where BOD, COD and TOC also reduced.
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Interesting question..First hand information on the issue says , these parameters are  inter-linked to each other...
Correlation between BOD, COD and TOC..
Cubic Equation : BOD = 3.376E- 7 (COD)3 + 6.82E- 4 (COD)2 + 3.96E –4 (COD) + 4.822.For BOD versus TOC, exponential equation is preferable because of lesser errors. For BOD versus COD, cubic equation gives better estimation...PDF enclosed fro further reading ..
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Are there any publications with details of where BAF units are installed in France? (or The Netherlands or Belgium, but given size France should have more sites).
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Hi Jeremy.  Look for information on Cergy, FR; Blagnac, FR; Formiguere, FR; Colombes, FR; Lagny, FR.  These are all BioStyr, but there are many Biofor units too.
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Is there any literature that has reported the partition coefficient of boron (H3BO3) in the reverse osmosis (RO) membrane? The partition coefficient is the ratio of the boron concentration in the membrane and the boron concentration in solution. Thank you!  
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Yes there is. Your will find this information documented in the following reference:
Seader & Henley. Separation Process Principles. Wiley & Sons publisher.
Hope this helps answer your question.
Professor Yehia Khalil, Yale University, USA
Fellow of the University of Oxford, UK
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From Na2SO4 high concentration sulfate wastewater i would like to remove sulfate by gypsum precipitation.  I have tried many test, using lime milk, temperature, dilute solution and still no gypsum precipitation. Any clue? 
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Hi Benjamin,
Yes, the relative solubilities are similar.  I'm just throwing up ideas.
How do the solubilities change relatively with temperature and how close to the solubility product limit are you achieving?  Remember too that total ionic strength will affect solubility in these relatively concentrated solutions. 
Can you allow the reaction to proceed in an evaporation basin?   How may atmospheric CO2 limit that process? 
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Dear all, regarding portable pHmeter, do you have any brand recommendation? I have seen the Mettler Toledo and Hanna. Any of you have experienced any of those? We will use the equipment to adjust pH of solutions and culture media.
Thanks
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For ongoing reliable measurement it is ususally the salt bridge of the reference cell that causes problems, unless it is a fast leaking ring junction, i.e. the type where you need to keep replenishing the KCl solution.  The meters themselves are typically good.  
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During the testing of surface water samples, PI values are lower than the TOC values. 
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If the raw water is fairly good quality overall but high TOC, which alternative would be more cost effective to control DBP. 
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Please refer : SJ Randtke,   Journal of American Water Works Association ,1988. Detailed study available on line with cross references.
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The total hardness of a given sample of water is 136 mg/l
The M alkalinity of the same sample is 267 mg/l
Please show how to calculate the values for carbonate and non-carbonate hardness from the above values.
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Dear Singh
how can you calculate it?
I know that TH = Carbo. + non Carbo.
according your calculation its about 130 mg/l
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Is there any pathogenic organism or smelling effect formed in fresh water yield while using wick or sponge material in solar still desalination
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Chances of getting a pathogenic infection inside the solar still desalination is very low ,almost zero. the thermo+ uv enhanced photo rays combination itself acts as a disinfectant, which does not provide a room for the ambient condition inside the setup for any pathogens (mesophilic and thermophilic) to grow. so the condition inside the setup can be guaranteed as a infection free ambience.
similarly, these heat are enough to make the setup and also the water inside it foul smell proof,as the main source for these smell is because of the presence of moisture trapped inside the sponge during operation.prolonged heating maintains almost dried condition inside the sponge which has thin chances of producing foul smell.
yet,the chances of getting a pathogenic infection or foul smell or pathogenic infection ad foul smell is very high,if the setup is kept in shade for long time,eventually building an ambience for anaerobic pathogens to grow and fouls smell to rise up inside it
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Just wondering, how to add HCO3 without raising sodium to the irrigation system ? what is best source of HCO3 for irrigation? 
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Lithium carbonate or magnesium carbonate are the closest matches. I think you will find the easiest to dose is magnesium oxide (MgO) which dissolves well and convert to hydrogencarbonate in water in contact with air.
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Although atrazine is almost neutral.
The water solubility of atrazine is 34.7 mg/L measured in fresh water at pH 7 at 26°Ϲ (Ward & Weber 1968). In your study, The water solubility of atrazine is 60 mg/L measured in fresh water at pH 6 at 25 °Ϲ . Is the difference due to the pH changing?
 In your study, The water solubility of atrazine is 60 mg/L measured in fresh water at pH 6 at 25 °Ϲand 50 mg/L measured in seawater at pH 8 at 25 °Ϲ . Both the pH and salinity are different. 
I would appreciate with your reply.
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Since the nitrogen groups on atrazine does make the molecule weakly basic, I believe you are correct in your assumption, but measurement of the exact pH would be more appropriate for a definitive answer.  In any acidic environment, the molecule should be expected to take on a proton at an amine site, increasingly the polarity of the molecule, making it more "salt-like", enhancing it's solubility in water.  In a basic environment, expect the molecule to remain non-protonated/neutral and therefore non-polar with far less solubility in water.
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Hey, I would appreciate if somebody help me “what is the Max permissible limit for Na+, Ca2+, Mg2+, K+, Ca2+, Cl−, HCO3−, in drinking and irrigation water according to WHO standard. Thanks
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I want to estimate dissolved oxygen in PBS at 37°C, at different pressures using Henry's law. I can find data for water at different temperatures, or for PBS at 25°C, but no info for PBS at 37°C. Does anyone know the Henry's constant for PBS at 37°C ? Or would you advise another calculation method ?
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First, you can only estimate the D.O. if it is well aerated, and at saturation.  If it is, the the saturated D.O. concentration can be calculated from:
(1) Temperature
(2) Barometric pressure (or elevation)
(3) ionic strength (or salinity, or conductivity as approximate surrogates
The following website 
 gives the saturated D.O. concentration as a function of these 3 variables.  I believe that phosphate buffered saline is approximately equivalent to 3% salinity, or 30 parts per thousand (which is one of the choises in the table. Let me know if you have any questions about using the calculator (which just uses widely available tables).
Robert G. Qualls
Professor, Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Science
University of Nevada