Why Activated Carbon is used as a filter material in RO and Waste water treatments?

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Ethylene glycol is newtonian or non newtonian fluid?

Some sources say it is treated as Newtonian as ethylene glycol has a higher viscosity than water, which affects the flow characteristics in simulations. But some also say it is non-Newtonian.

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Can any of you suggest how to find the detection limit.?

I am working on flourescence sensing of heavy metals using quantum dots.Can any of you suggest how to find the detection limit. Whether it is calculated from formula or we can get from instrument?

19 July 2024 7,411 3 View

Cloning of flaviviruses is difficult i have noticed that cells loose their transformation ability after cloning fragments inside vector any advice?

As flaviviruses genome is very frequently prone to mutation hence it is very difficult to clone whole genome inside vector what kind of vector and cells can sustain such amount of cloning...

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I am not getting proper colonies while ligating one of fragments in my vector the colonies seems to be normal but in light it seems lysed any reason?

I am working on cloning of a gene fragment inside my vector everything we tried to do correctly like making insert and vector with utmost care but after ligation the morphology of colonies seems...

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Can anyone suggest what amount of powder I have to disperse in the solvent for taking the FTIR spectra?

I have to compare the FTIR of the two samples, one is in powder form and other one is the powder dispersed in IPA or water. Both are same material, so how the bond will change

09 July 2024 8,011 2 View

I have a doubt in finding the amount of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic contribution in a canted system?

Is it possible to differentiate or calculate, the amount of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic contribution in a canted system? (Weakly frustrated canted antiferromagnetic system)

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How transmittance is dependent on the band gap and atomic structure?

UV-Visible NIR analysis

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Whether size obtained from TEM and XRD should be equal?

I have got crystalline size around 15nm from xrd but TEM is giving particle size 4nm

20 June 2024 6,064 8 View

If I dop a metal ion into the ternary nanoparticles can I call it as heterostructure?

Ag+ ion replaced some of the Cu+ ion. ie, Ag+ is the dopant

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Whether the same synthesised inorganic nanoparticle show different heavy metal sensing by flourescence?

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• What the possible Persistent Organic Pollutants and Heavy metals present in fluorspar, sediments, and water bodies around its mining area?

Approximate concentrations are require in compared with the WHO permissible limts

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What is the reason for current dropping in OER , LSV curve?

I tried four trials of the same Copper Phosphides sample in Alkaline medium ( 0.5M KOH) with Hg/HgO reference electrode and Pt as counter electrode. I used 0.001 V/s scan rate for first three...

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Handling Missing Data and Building a Predictive Model with Incomplete Information ?

I am developing a predictive model for a water supply network that involves 20 influencing points. However, I only have historical data for 10 out of these 20 points. I would like to know how to...

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Adhesion strength of coating?

How can I determine a good adhesion strength range for coatings on polymer surfaces, such as DLC on polymer substrates? Is there a specific threshold for adhesion strength (from T-peel tests)...

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Why Do TDS and EC Increase with Larger Wastewater Volumes, While BOD and COD Decrease?

I have carried out MFC experiments on three different volumes, 50, 500 and 1000 mL of wastewater. Results after MFC treatment shows that TDS and EC are more in larger volumes of water i.e. TDS and...

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Do interactions between biosphere, carbon cycle, & water cycle impact global warming & interaction between atmosphere & hydrosphere?

How do interactions between the biosphere, the carbon cycle, and the water cycle impact global warming and interaction between the atmosphere and the hydrosphere?

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Is it true that $\det(V(A))$ may be only $\pm 1$, depending on $n$, for the last symmetric tridiagonal matrix $A$?

One can try to generalize the Vandermonde determinant in the following direction: Let $A$ be any symmetric $n$-order square matrix. Consider its powers' diagonal elements $(A^k)_{ii}$ and...

08 August 2024 6,690 1 View

Who of all of you will help TPEOM to re-originate the Earths atmosphere to it original 5 atmospheric elements/gases?

Global ‘Weather’ has stopped, as ‘aqua thermionic instituted by the ‘Global thermo atmospherics has instituted global thermodynamics of 120º C + and thus all waters are, or have boiled into a...

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Could dyes amplify the spectrum of light to a specific wavelength?

I am interested to know the behavior of dyes toward light. Specifically, Blue dyes re-emit the spectrum, especially from the green zone (known as principal in LED lamps, and blue dyes are known...

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How to Add Missing Water Molecules in Protein-Membrane Simulations?

I have protein-membrane simulations (PDB, PSF, DCD) and have noticed that water molecules near the protein are not visible in the simulations. How can I fix this issue? Is there a way to place the...

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Abhijeet Singh

Wikipedia article provides more than enough information if you could please try to read.

Kien Vu

Many reasons: cheap, high removal rate, large specific surface area, easy to buy and operate, etc.

Regards,

B. Srikanth Ragunath

Thanks for your answer @ Kien Vu

Abdoul Salam Issiaka Abdoul Magid

Because Activated carbon can interact with many pollutants and Kien Vu said activated carbon is cheap, higher adsorption capacity, easy to prepare or buy, large surface area, oxygen containing functional groups.....

Thanks for your answer @ Abdoul Salam Issiaka Abdoul Magid

Camilo Sanchez

Apart from been cheap, high removal rate, large specific surface area, easy to buy and operate, etc., activated Carbon in RO is mainly used to protect RO membranes from oxidants such as chlorine, while in wastewater is for adsorption of organic compounds, removal of colour and odour.

Thanks for your answer @ Camilo Sanchez