Treatment of petroleum refinery effluents by a hybrid system of activated sludge and rotation biological reactor, followed by the sand filter by Sareh Aghababaee, Sima Malekmohammadi, Sina Sepehri

“…The rotation rate of disks and retention time has been evaluated for their impact on the removal efficiency of total dissolved solids (TDS), dissolved oxygen (DO), pH, total suspended solids (TSS), turbidity (TU), chemical oxygen demand (COD), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), ammonia (NH3). …”
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Effects of Anthropogenic Activities on Water Quality within Ngong River Sub-Catchment, Nairobi, Kenya by Mary Ngatia, Shadrack M. Kithiia, Mihai Voda

“…The ANOVA test results showed that all the physicochemical parameters studied (BOD, <i>E. coli</i>, pH, total suspended solids, total coliforms, turbidity, conductivity, nitrates, oil and grease and TDS), except COD, were not significantly different (<i>p</i> ≤ 0.05) for the different sites. …”
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Assessment of The Bioremediation Potential of Selected Bacterial Species Isolated from the Textile Printing Wastewater Inoculated with Cow Dung by K.B. Dhameliya, Chetan Ambasana, Gaurav Agrawal

“…At the end of a 24-h incubation period at room temperature under shaking conditions at 100 rpm on an orbital shaker, isolate Pri 3 was identified as Alcaligenes aquatilis LMG 22996 (T), capable of reducing color by 86.13%, biological oxygen demand (BOD) by 70.44%, chemical oxygen demand (COD) by 80.65%, total dissolved solids (TDS) by 47.31%, total suspended solids (TSS) by 56.56%, and ammoniacal nitrogen by 75.95%; isolate Pri 4 as Priestia aryabhattai B8W22(T), capable of reducing color by 78.35%, BOD by 66.35%, COD by 74.92%, TDS by 34.94%, TSS by 31.66%, and ammoniacal nitrogen by 71.14%; isolate Pri 8 as Citrobacter werkmanii NBRC 105721(T), capable of reducing color by 90.37%, BOD by 82.13%, COD by 85.06%, TDS by 54.83%, TSS by 61.97%, and ammoniacal nitrogen by 80.76%; and isolate Pri 9 as Shewanella chilikensis JC5(T), capable of reducing color by 90.17%, BOD by 84.68%, COD by 83.46%, TDS by 59.13%, TSS by 62.45%, and ammoniacal nitrogen by 90.37%.…”
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Temporal and Spatial Study of Water Quality and Trophic Evaluation of a Large Tropical Reservoir by Alberto Quevedo-Castro, Erick R. Bandala, Jesús G. Rangel-Peraza, Leonel E. Amábilis-Sosa, Antonio Sanhouse-García, Yaneth A. Bustos-Terrones

“…The PNN revealed neural interactions between total suspended solids (TSS) and the other four parameters, indicating that the concentration ranges of five parameters are equally distributed and classified.…”
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Effect on water quality, growth performance and economics of giant freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii with partial feed in biofloc system by Md. Amirul Islam, Shikder Saiful Islam, Joyanta Bir, Prosenjit Debnath, Md. Rahamat Ullah, Khandaker Anisul Huq

“…The biofloc‐based treatments showed significantly higher floc volume, total suspended solids, total heterotrophic bacteria and plankton density than the control (p < 0.05). …”
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Influence of effluent particles and particle-bound micropollutants on the removal of micropollutants and UVA254 in wastewater effluent ozonation by Jueying Qian, Hana Atallah Al-asad, Janna Parniske, Andrea Brandl, Monika Degenhardt, Tobias Morck

“…This study systematically investigated the influence of effluent particles and activated sludge (AS) particles on the removal of micropollutants via wastewater effluent ozonation within typical effluent total suspended solids (TSS) concentrations. A series of batch experiments revealed that particle concentrations up to 30 mg/L had a minor impact on the removal of organic micropollutants (OMPs) in the aqueous phase. …”
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Temporal variation and risk assessment of heavy metals and nutrients from water and sediment in a stormwater pond, Brazil by Emanoelle Pereira da Silva, Nelson Roberto Antoniosi Filho, Julião Pereira, Klebber Teodomiro Martins Formiga

“…Significant Pearson correlations were observed between turbidity and total suspended solids (TSS), Ba, Cr, Mn, Zn, and TP. Ponds and urban lakes require maintenance or may become a source of environmental pollutants. …”
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Development of Novel Formaldehyde-Free Melamine Resin for Retanning of Leather and Reduced Effluent Discharge in Water by Muhammad Naveed Ashraf, Azhar Ali, Muhammad Bilal Shakoor, Sajid Rashid Ahmad, Fida Hussain, Sang-Eun Oh

“…Pollution load study of effluent showed reductions in chemical oxygen demand, total suspended solids and total dissolved solids by 9.21%, 5.60% and 6.97%, respectively, for the novel melamine resin, reflecting its improved exhaustion. …”
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Efficiency and Technological Reliability of Contaminant Removal in Household WWTPs with Activated Sludge by Agnieszka Micek, Krzysztof Jóźwiakowski, Michał Marzec, Agnieszka Listosz, Tadeusz Grabowski

“…Much lower effects were obtained for total suspended solids (TSS) and amounted to 17–48%, while the efficiency of total phosphorus (TP) and total nitrogen (TN) removal did not exceed 34%. …”
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Innovative Approaches to Poultry Processing Wastewater Treatment: The Stainless Steel Ultrafiltration Membrane as a Viable Option by Saubana Olorunsola Dada, Chidambaram Thamariselvan, Mahmood Jebur, Sumith Ranil Wickramasinghe

“…It achieved an impressive removal rate of up to 99.9% for total suspended solids (TSS), oil, grease, <i>E. coli</i>, and coliform. …”
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Physicochemical analysis and detection of exceptionally high diclofenac concentration in the pharmaceutical wastewaters collected from the production units of national industrial z... by Mehmooda Bibi, Jamshaid Rashid, Mahrukh Malik, Aneela Iqbal, Ming Xu

“…In this study, effluent wastewater samples from 14 manufacturing units of the pharmaceutical industries of the National Industrial Zone, Rawat, Pakistan, were collected and characterized for physicochemical parameters including color, odor, pH, electric conductivity, temperature, total dissolved solids, total suspended solids, salinity, dissolved oxygen (DO), chemical oxygen demand (COD), nitrates, sulfates and phosphates according to the standard methods. …”
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Field evaluation of abandoned open well for recharging surplus canal water by ALOK GUPTA, RAJAN AGGARWAL, SAMANPREET KAUR

“…Reduction in rate of recharge was mainly due to increase in total suspended solids (TSS) of canal water.…”
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Simultaneous Oxidation of Emerging Pollutants in Real Wastewater by the Advanced Fenton Oxidation Process by Alexis Rubén Bracamontes-Ruelas, Yolanda Reyes-Vidal, José Rafael Irigoyen-Campuzano, Liliana Reynoso-Cuevas

“…The results obtained upon application showed that the advanced Fenton oxidation process could simultaneously oxidize and remove practically the total concentration of the above-mentioned emerging pollutants, except for DEET (85.21%), in conjunction with the chemical oxygen demand (COD), total suspended solids (TSS), and fecal coliforms (FC, pathogen group) in the effluent generated by the advanced Fenton oxidation process.…”
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Fixed-bed column study for the remediation of the bauxite-liquid residue using acid-activated clays and natural clays by Daniel Dodoo, Godfred Appiah, George Acquaah, Thomas Dodoo Junior

“…For instance, the pH, temperature, electrical conductivity, total suspended solids, total dissolved solids, biochemical oxygen demand, turbidity, and total alkalinity of the bauxite-liquid residue were all significantly decreased below tolerance levels by using AACs. …”
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Effects of Lanthanum Modified Bentonite and Polyaluminium Chloride on the Environmental Variables in the Water and Sediment Phosphorus Form in Lake Yanglan, China by Ling Su, Chen Zhong, Lei Gan, Xiaolin He, Jinlei Yu, Xiumei Zhang, Zhengwen Liu

“…We studied the effects of the application of Phoslock^® + PAC on the concentrations of total phosphorus (TP), particulate phosphorus (PP), soluble reactive phosphorus (SRP), total suspended solids (TSS) and chlorophyll <i>a</i> (Chl<i>a</i>) in the water, and different P forms in the sediments, in an isolated part of Lake Yanglan. …”
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Exploring Water Quality and Toxicity: An Analysis of Cadmium and Lead Concentration in the Parañaque River by Atienza Alfonso Miguel, Padilla Jan Florenz, Santos Nanette

“…Surface water samples were taken to assess the heavy metals’ concentration levels and water quality parameters: color, pH, salinity, dissolved oxygen (DO), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), total dissolved solids (TDS), and total suspended solids (TSS). The collection of water samples followed the standard method for surface water sampling listed in the Water Quality Monitoring Manual Volume 1 of Department of Environment and Natural Resources – Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB). …”
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Evaluating the Feasibility of Employing Dynamic Membranes for the Direct Filtration of Municipal Wastewater by Pau Sanchis-Perucho, Daniel Aguado, José Ferrer, Aurora Seco, Ángel Robles

“…A stable short-term self-forming DM was achieved (from some hours to 3 days) regardless of the supporting material used, producing relatively similar permeate qualities (total suspended solids, chemical oxygen demand, total nitrogen, total phosphorous and turbidity of 67–88 mg L⁻¹, 155–186 mg L⁻¹, 48.7–50.4 mg L⁻¹, 4.7–4.9 mg L⁻¹, and 167–174 NTU, respectively). …”
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Factor Analysis Techniques for the Assessment of Water Quality: A Case Study of Okun River, Ilorin, Kwara State by H. K. Okoro, G. B. Adebayo, O. D. Saliu, A. O. Adebayo

“…Physicochemical properties such as temperature, turbidity, conductivity, total suspended solids, total dissolved solids, colour, odour, pH, total hardness, chloride, and concentrations of heavy metals (chromium, manganese, iron, copper, zinc and cadmium) were assessed. …”
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A modified integrated physical advanced primary treatment to enhance particulate organic carbon removal in municipal wastewater treatment plants by Behnam Askari Lasaki, Peter Maurer, Harald Schönberger

“…The optimal configuration, PST + 15-μm MS, achieved maximum removal efficiencies of 90% for turbidity, 90% for total suspended solids (TSS), and 80% for total chemical oxygen demand (TCOD). …”
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Assessing the influence of horticultural farming on selected water quality parameters in Maumau stream, a tributary of Nairobi River, Kenya by Murithi M. Wilson, R.W. Michieka, S.M. Mwendwa

“…Analyzed parameters include total dissolved solids (TDS), salinity, total suspended solids (TSS), sulphates (SO3−3), phosphates (PO3−3), nitrates (NO3-), fluoride (Fl−), turbidity, chloride (Cl−), magnesium (Mg+2), sodium (Na+), potassium (K+) and zinc (Zn+2). …”
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