A review on pharmaceuticals removal from waters by single and combined biological,membrane filtration and ultrasound systems

Contaminants of emerging concern (CEC) such as pharmaceuticals commonly found in urban and industrial wastewater are a potential threat to human health and have negative environmental impact. Most wastewater treatment plants cannot efficiently remove these compounds and therefore, many pharmaceuticals end up in aquatic ecosystems, inducing problems such as toxicity and antibiotic-resistance. This review reports the extent of pharmaceutical removal by individual processes such as bioreactors, advanced oxidation processes and membrane filtration systems, all of which are not 100% efficient and can lead to the direct discharge of pharmaceuticals into water bodies. Also, the importance of understanding biotransformation of pharmaceutical compounds during biological and ultrasound treatment, and its impact on treatment efficacy will be reviewed. Different combinations of the processes above, either as an integrated configuration or in series, will be discussed in terms of their degradation efficiency and scale-up capabilities. The trace quantities of pharmaceutical compounds in wastewater and scale-up issues of ultrasound highlight the importance of membrane filtration as a concentration and volume reduction treatment step for wastewater, which could subsequently be treated by ultrasound.     

微波热处理再生颗粒状活性炭的研究

本文利用微波热处理法,分别在大气和氮气气氛两种情况下快速再生了已经充分吸附SO2的颗粒状活性炭.微波热处理过程中,应用红外热成像技术,采集了样品的一系列热图像,直观显示了温度分布,表明热处理的最高温度仅为300℃.将再生产物用于模拟烟气脱硫实验,结果表明大气气氛下,微波再生活性炭的脱硫性能还不及原炭的一半;换以氮气气氛隔绝空气后,其脱硫性能提升到原炭的97%.隔绝空气条件下的微波热处理再生法比传统热再生方法,降低了处理温度、极大缩短了再生时间,体现了高效、低能耗两大优势.     

One‐stage Template‐free KOH Activation for Mesopore‐enriched Carbons and Their Application in CO2 Capture

Activated carbons with a high mesoporous structure were prepared by a one‐stage KOH activation process without the assistance of templates and further used as adsorbents for CO₂ capture. The physical and chemical properties as well as the pore structures of the resulting mesoporous carbons were characterized by N₂ adsorption isotherms, scanning electron microscopy (SEM ), X‐ray diffraction (XRD ), Raman spectroscopy, and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR ) spectroscopy. The activated carbon showed greater specific surface area and mesopore volume as the activation temperature was increased up to 600°C, showing a uniform pore structure, great surface area (up to ~815 m²/g), and high mesopore ratio (~55%). The activated sample exhibited competitive CO₂ adsorption capacities at 1 atm pressure, reaching 2.29 and 3.4 mmol/g at 25 and 0°C, respectively. This study highlights the potential of well‐designed mesoporous carbon as an adsorbent for CO₂ removal and widespread gas adsorption applications.     

Kinetic and equilibrium studies of urea adsorption onto activated carbon: Adsorption mechanism

We found that activated carbon effectively removed urea from solution and that urea adsorption onto activated carbon followed a pseudo-second-order kinetic model. We classified the urea adsorption on activated carbon as physical adsorption and found that it was best described by the Halsey adsorption isotherm, suggesting that the multilayer adsorption of urea molecules on the adsorption sites of activated carbon best characterized the adsorption system. The mechanism of adsorption of urea by activated carbon involved two steps. First, an amino (–NH₂) group of urea interacted with a carbonyl (–C?O) group and a hydroxyl (?OH) group on the surface of activated carbon via dipole–dipole interactions. Next, the –C?O group of the urea molecule adsorbed to the activated carbon interacted with another –NH₂ group from a second urea molecule, leading to multilayer adsorption.     

石墨烯负载镍催化CO_2加氢甲烷化

采用改进的Hummers法制备了氧化石墨烯(GO),经水合肼还原得到石墨烯(RGO),通过浸渍法制备了石墨烯负载的镍基催化剂(Ni/RGO);对其催化二氧化碳甲烷化反应的性能进行了研究,并与以碳纳米管(CNTs)和活性炭(AC)为载体负载的Ni基催化剂进行了比较.由于催化剂的载体分别为RGO,CNTs和AC,所以Ni将会表现出不同的形态.利用红外光谱(FTIR)、比表面积(BET)测试、程序升温还原(H2-TPR)、X射线衍射(XRD)分析和透射电子显微镜(TEM)等表征手段对其结构及物理性质进行了表征.结果表明,Ni/RGO具有相对较大的比表面积(316 m~2/g),Ni在Ni/RGO上的颗粒尺寸(5.3 nm)小于其在Ni/CNTs(8.9 nm)和Ni/AC(11.6 nm)上的颗粒尺寸;该催化剂在二氧化碳甲烷化反应中具有更高的催化活性和选择性,而且具有良好的使用寿命.     

炭载体改性对炭载Pd催化剂电催化性能的影响

研究了硝酸和氨水改性处理对活性炭表面基团、炭载Pd纳米粒子的形态及其对甲酸氧化电催化性能的影响.傅里叶变换红外(FT-IR)光谱、X射线光电子能谱(XPS)及Boehm滴定结果表明,硝酸和氨水处理分别增加了活性炭表面含氧基团和含氮基团的含量.透射电镜(TEM)及电化学测试显示,活性炭经硝酸处理后,表面负载的Pd粒子粒径降低,催化剂对甲酸氧化活性和稳定性提高.进一步用氨水处理后,Pd粒子的粒径没有明显变化,但催化剂中Pd0的含量增加,催化剂性能进一步提高.     

硝酸处理的活性碳催化苯一步合成苯酚

将市售的煤质活性炭用不同浓度的硝酸处理后,在乙腈体系下催化苯一步羟化成苯酚. 并对处理过的活性炭进行Boehm滴定、XPS/EDX、BET等方法表征,发现活性炭表面羧基的数量是影响其催化活性的主要因素. 得到苯酚的最高收率为15.7%,选择性为87.2%.     

粉末活性炭对模拟间苯二酚废水的吸附

在静态条件下,研究了粉末活性炭对间苯二酚废水的吸附效果,通过实验优化了吸附条件,并在最佳处理效果下探究其吸附模式。结果表明,当水样pH值为4,温度30℃,活性炭用量0.3g,振荡时间10m in,振荡速率为120r/m in时,对废水的处理效果最佳。拟合得到活性炭吸附间苯二酚的模式符合F reund lich吸附模式。     

Covalent selection of the thiol proteome on activated thiol sepharose: A robust tool for redox proteomics

Protein thiols contribute significantly to antioxidant defence and selective oxidation of cysteines is important in signal transduction even in sub-stress scenarios. However, cysteine is the second rarest residue in proteins and it can be difficult to target low-abundance thiol (-SH)-containing proteins in proteomic separations. Activated thiol sepharose (ATS) allows covalent selection of -SH-containing proteins which can then be recovered by reduction with mercaptoethanol or dithiothreitol. This is a robust method for enriching -SH-containing proteins. We have used ATS to estimate the percentage (by weight) of thiol-containing proteins in cell extracts from a range of biological sources: a bacterium, Escherichia coli; a fungus, Trichoderma harzianum; and a bivalve mollusc Mytilus edulis. -SH-containing proteins account for 2.52% (E. coli), 1.4% (T. harzianum) and 1.4% (M. edulis) of total protein. Exposure to pro-oxidants did not materially alter these values. On removal of low M_r thiols such as glutathione, the values for M. edulis did not significantly change but those for T. harzianum increased threefold. The two-dimensional electrophoresis profiles of ATS-selected proteins for each organism were compared in control and pro-oxidant-exposed preparations. This revealed that some proteins present in controls were absent in pro-oxidant-treated extracts which we attribute to thiol oxidation. ATS has significant potential in enrichment for -SH-containing proteins in redox proteomics.     

STUDIES ON THE CATALYTIC REACTION OF NITROGEN OXIDE ON METAL MODIFIED ACTIVATED CARBON FIBERS

1.INTRODUCTIONNitrogenmonoxide(NO)producedduringthecombustionprocessesisoneofthemostseriouspollutants,whichproducestownsmogandcausesotherseriousworldecologicalproblems.Inrecentyears,scientistspaidgreatattentionstocontrolandremovethiskindofpollutantbydifferenttechniques.Amongthem,catalytictechnologiesareattractivebecauseoftheirlowcostandhighefficiency[1].Nowadays,theNOismainlytreatedbycatalyticreductionwithreducingagentssuchasammoniaandsurphurdioxideandsoonovermetal-basedcatalysts.Thecar…