Due to their large-scale production and extensive application, dyes have turned serious pollutants when improperly handled and disposed, creating grave public health and environmental problems. One of the problems that textile industry is facing is related with the incomplete exhaustion of dyes onto textile fibres from an aqueous dyeing process, and the need to implement innovative and sustainable effluent trea...
UV/titanium dioxide (TiO2) degradation of two xanthene dyes, erythrosine B (Ery) and eosin Y (Eos), was studied in a photocatalytic reactor. Photocatalysis was able to degrade 98% of Ery and 73% of Eos and led to 65% of chemical oxygen demand removal. Experiments in buffered solutions at different initial pH values reveal the pH dependence of the process, with better results obtained under acidic conditions due...
Due to their large-scale production and extensive application, dyes have turned serious pollutants as when improperly handled and disposed, they may create serious public health and environmental problems. One of the problems that textile industry is facing is related with the incomplete exhaustion of dyes onto textile fibre from an aqueous dyeing process and the need to implement innovative and sustainable eff...
Aromatic amines are important industrial chemicals. Due to their high toxicity and persistency in both water and soils, they are of environmental concern. Aniline is not biodegradable in normal anaerobic condition. A novel approach of anaerobic biodegradation coupled with selective redox mediators, is proposed. Different redox mediators, namely manganese dioxide, Ferric citrate, ferrous chloride and magnetic ir...
Biodegradation of a xanthene dyes was investigated for the first time using anaerobic granular sludge. On a first screening, biomass was able to decolorize, at different extents, six azo dye solutions: acid orange 7, direct black 19, direct blue 71, mordant yellow 10, reactive red 2 and reactive red 120 and two xanthene dyes—Erythrosine B and Eosin Y. Biomass concentration, type of electron donor, induction of ...
Dyes are an important class of synthetic organic compounds used in many industries, especially textiles. Consequently, they have become common industrial environmental pollutants during their synthesis and later during fibre dyeing. Textile industries are facing a challenge in the field of quality and productivity due to the globalization of the world market. As the highly competitive atmosphere and the ecologi...
In order to confirm the traditional use of Baccharis trimera (Less.) DC., Asteraceae, for the reduction of weight, plant extracts were evaluated on the activity of pancreatic lipase (PL), an enzyme responsible for hydrolysis of triacylglycerols in the diet for its subsequent absorption. The aqueous and infused extracts did not show inhibitory activity on the PL, the ethanol inhibited 16% (66 ALI/g) and methanol...
Two upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactors were operated to investigate the fate of aromatic amines under denitrifying conditions. The feed consisted of synthetic wastewater containing aniline and/or sulfanilic acid and a mixture of volatile fatty acids (VFA) as the primary electron donors. Reactor 1 (R1) contained a stoichiometric concentration of nitrate and Reactor 2 (R2) a stoichiometric nitrate an...
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