Production and biochemical characterization of keratinase enzyme from Bacillus subtilis ES5 and its potential application in leather dehairing process: a clean leather tanning proc... by Getachew Alamnie, Amare Gessesse, Misganaw Bitew, Nebiyu Dawud, Berhanu Andualem, Abayeneh Girma

“…It completely dehaired goat/sheep skins within 14 h, resulting in decreased biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5), chemical oxygen demand (COD), total dissolved solids (TDS), total suspended solids (TSS), and overall pollution load by 57.39, 70.53, 93.59, 94.90, and 79.10%, respectively. …”
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Investigating the Effect of Vermifiltration with Different Bulking Agents on Some Important Properties of Municipal Sewage Influent by Abdol Rasoul Jafarzadeh Ghahdarijani, Mehran Hoodaji, Arezoo Tahmourespour

“…Then, EarthWorm (EW) (Eisenia fetida) were added to the sewage sludge in two proportions (0 and 50 adult earthworms/6 kg sewage sludge).Results: The results showed a significant decrease in electrical conductivity (about 100% decrease compared to the control), total dissolved solids (up to 3 times in RH0+ EW treatment less than the control), total suspended solids (up to 90 times in WS10+EW and RH+EW treatments decrease compared to the control), biochemical oxygen demand (significant decrease in RH levels+EW compared to other treatments), and chemical oxygen demand (a reverse status was observed for WS and RH treatments, but the role of vermifiltration was considerable). …”
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Water quality assessment of Raw and Chlorinated drinking water of a Residential University by Huda Kamal, Imran Hashmi

“…Ten physicochemical parameters were analyzed (pH, Electrical conductivity, Turbidity, Dissolved oxygen, Hardness, Alkalinity, Total suspended solids, Total dissolved solids, Total organic carbon, and Chlorine (free & total)). …”
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The Impact of Biofloc Technology on Water Quality in Aquaculture: A Systematic Meta-Analysis by Yousef Ahmed Alkhamis, Airin Sultana, Shaikh Tareq Arafat, Muhammad Abdur Rouf, Sheikh Mustafizur Rahman, Roshmon Thomas Mathew, Nagarajan Ganesan, Afrin Sultana, Rashid Saleh Alngada, Raed Abdul Whed, Nouh Abdulaziz Aljaafari, Md. Moshiur Rahman

“…Following a systematic review of the literature, a meta-analysis was performed to explore how some important water parameters such as pH, dissolved oxygen (DO), nitrite (NO2–N), nitrate (NO3–N), ammonia (NH3–N), total ammonia nitrogen (TAN), total suspended solids (TSS), and alkalinity were influenced by different BFT systems. …”
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The Influence of Anthropogenic Pollution on the Physicochemical Conditions of the Waters of the Lower Section of the Sąpólna River by Małgorzata Bonisławska, Arkadiusz Nędzarek, Agnieszka Rybczyk, Adam Tański

“…Seventeen water quality indicators were measured, including temperature, pH, conductivity, total suspended solids (TSS), dissolved oxygen (DO), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD₅), chemical oxygen demand (COD_Cr), total organic carbon (TOC), alkalinity, total hardness, total reactive phosphorus (TRP), total phosphorus (TP), nitrite-nitrogen (NO₂⁻-N), nitrate-nitrogen (NO₃⁻-N), total ammonia nitrogen (NH₄-N), total organic nitrogen (TON), and total nitrogen (TN). …”
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Bacteria Removal from Stormwater Runoff Using Tree Filters: A Comparison of a Conventional and an Innovative System by Laura A. Schifman, Varun K. Kasaraneni, Ryan K. Sullivan, Vinka Oyanedel-Craver, Thomas B. Boving

“…Both tree filters met or outperformed RI’s standards for bacteria removal (60%) and TSS (85%), making them a good choice for BMP use in this climate. Total suspended solids, E. coli, PAHs, nitrate, and phosphate removal is higher in ITF. …”
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Sequential Anaerobic/Aerobic Treatment of Pharmaceutical Wastewater by Mohammed Ali I. Al-Hashimi, Abbas Hadi Abbas

“…The removal efficiency for chemical oxygen demand (COD), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) Nitrate (NO3), Phosphate (PO4), Sulphate (SO4), Total suspended solids (TSS) by anaerobic filter were evaluated, while only the removal efficiency for COD and BOD were evaluated with the sequential anaerobic/aerobic treatment. …”
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Impact of heat-treatment on wastewater analytical parameters by Praveen Rosario, Thamayanthi Seenivasan, Ramya Viswash, Sudha Ramalingam, Viswa Barani, Claire M. Welling, Sonia Grego

“…We found that heat-treatment of blackwater at 60 °C for 90 min in capped containers yielded no statistically different values (p > 0.05) for pH, chemical oxygen demand (COD), ammonia (NH3), total nitrogen (TN), total suspended solids (TSS), and turbidity for specimens from three different sources. …”
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Recovery of Water from Secondary Effluent through Pilot Scale Ultrafiltration Membranes: Implementation at Patras’ Wastewater Treatment Plant by Dimitris Zagklis, Fotios K. Katrivesis, Varvara Sygouni, Lamprini Tsarouchi, Konstantina Tsigkou, Michael Kornaros, Christakis A. Paraskeva

“…Turbidity was reduced by 99%, total suspended solids were decreased by more than 94%, while COD was reduced by 37%. …”
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Characteristics and Changes in Water Quality Based on Climate and Hydrology Effects in the Cirata Reservoir by Panjie Wiranegara, Sunardi Sunardi, Dadan Sumiarsa, Hafizan Juahir

“…The Mann–Whitney <i>U</i>-test (different test) results showed that salinity, total suspended solids (TSS), the potential of hydrogen (pH), nitrate (NO₃-N), phosphate (PO₄), nitrate and phosphate content in the sediment were significantly different (α < 0.05) between the rainy and dry seasons. …”
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Urban Drool Water Quality in Denver, Colorado: Pollutant Occurrences and Sources in Dry-Weather Flows by Forrest Gage Pilone, Pablo A. Garcia-Chevesich, John E. McCray

“…Samples were analyzed for total suspended solids (TSS), coliforms, <i>Escherichia Coli</i> (<i>E. coli</i>), nutrients (nitrate, phosphorus, and potassium), dissolved and total organic carbon, and dissolved and total recoverable metals. …”
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Long Term (1998–2019) Changes in Water Quality Parameters as a Function of Freshwater Inflow in a River–Bay Continuum by Bhanu Paudel, Lori M. Brown

“…The average N-NO_{2_3} and P-PO₄ were higher than the standard (0.14 and 0.01 mg/L for N-NO_{2_3}+N-NH₃ and P-PO₄, respectively) for growing seasons (March–October) i.e., 0.83 + 0.14 and 0.09 mg/L in Indian River; 0.79 + 0.10 and 0.06 mg/L in Indian River Bay; 0.21 + 0.15 and 0.09 mg/L in Lewes-Rehoboth Canal; 0.49 + 0.10 and 0.11 mg/L in Little Assawoman Bay; 1.0 + 0.08 and 0.06 mg/L in Rehoboth Bay. Average total suspended solids in the Indian River (33), Indian River Bay (22), and Lewes-Rehoboth Canal (31) were higher than the standard concentrations, i.e., 20 mg/L for the Inland Bays. …”
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Effect of Pretreatment on Hydraulic Performance of the Integrated Membrane Process for Concentrating Nutrient in Biogas Digestate from Swine Manure by Yuanhang Zhan, Fubin Yin, Caide Yue, Jun Zhu, Zhiping Zhu, Mengyuan Zou, Hongmin Dong

“…In the RO permeates, the removal rates of total suspended solids (TSS), total solids (TS), chemical oxygen demand (COD), total nitrogen (TN), NH₄⁺-N, and Cl⁻ were above 91%. …”
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A step toward a biofloc system with no‐carbon addition: Increasing dietary lipid level enhances the water quality and body chemical composition without affecting tilapia health sta... by Ashraf Suloma, Rania S. Mabroke, Marwa S. Khattab, Sally M. Salaah, Osama M. El‐Husseiny, Ali Eid

“…The C treatment recorded the highest values (p < 0.05) in terms of final body weight (FBW), specific growth rate, floc volume, total suspended solids, and ammonia nitrogen. No significant differences were observed between C and LPHL treatments regarding FBW and protein efficiency ratio. …”
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Electrocoagulation Process Efficiency for Removing Effluent Pollution Caused by Drilling of Oil Rigs by Seyed Mehdi Ale-Tayeb, Ehsan Derikvand, Mohsen Solimani Babarsad, Majid Razaz, Hossein Eslami

“…This study investigates the performance of EC in removing chemical oxygen demand (COD), total organic carbon (TOC), total suspended solids (TSS), and turbidity from drilling waste generated by oil rigs.Methods: An experimental study was performed on a pilot scale in an EC reactor provided from a cylindrical glass cell (height: 30 cm and inner diameter: 5 cm), a pair of aluminum and iron electrodes, a power supply, an aeration system. wastewater Samples were collected from one of the drilling rigs in Khuzestan. …”
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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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Fouling reduction in nanofiltration membranes in the treatment of municipal sewage – effect of coagulant type used for prior chemically enhanced primary treatment by Sadia Fida, Sajjad Haydar, Muhammad Zeeshan

“…In CEPT, the 1:1 mixture of coagulants showed maximum removals, i.e. 75–77% for the total suspended solids and 73–75% for the chemical oxygen demand (COD). …”
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Effects of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) on phytoplankton community structure and water quality: a short-term mesocosm study by Zhang Liqiong, Mei Xueying, Tang Yali, Razlutskij Vladimir, Peterka Jiří, Taylor William D., Naselli-Flores Luigi, Liu Zhengwen, Tong Chunfu, Zhang Xiufeng

“…A short-term mesocosm experiment with and without Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) was designed to test the hypotheses that the presence of tilapia may affect phytoplankton community structure, increase nutrients availability in water column and deteriorate water quality. Nutrients, total suspended solids (TSS) and biomass of phytoplankton in different size classes (as Chl a) were measured. …”
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Short-Term Effects of Forest Fire on Water Quality along a Headwater Stream in the Immediate Post-Fire Period by Sooyoun Nam, Hyunje Yang, Honggeun Lim, Jaehoon Kim, Qiwen Li, Haewon Moon, Hyung Tae Choi

“…Seven water quality parameters were analyzed: pH, electrical conductivity, biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, total suspended solids (TSS), total nitrogen, and total phosphorous. …”
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Effect of Recirculation on Leachate Quality and Biogas Production Rate in Landfills by Mohsen Behnezhad, Amir Hesam Hassani, Ruholaah Mahmoudkani, Sayed Alireza Hajiseyed Mirzahosseini

“…Parameters were examined, including the chemical oxygen demand, biochemical oxygen demand, turbidity, total suspended solids, ammonium, phosphate, copper, iron, cadmium, lead, and zinc. …”
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