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Record W1992360556 · doi:10.1081/ese-100000475

ACTIVATED SLUDGE IMMOBILIZATION USING THE PVA-ALGINATE-BORATE METHOD

2001· article· en· W1992360556 on OpenAlexafffund
M. An, K.V. Lo

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Environmental Science and Health Part A · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicWastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsActivated sludgePolyvinyl alcoholBoric acidAerationChemistryChromatographyBoronFluidized bedHydraulic retention timeMixed liquor suspended solidsMaterials scienceChemical engineeringWaste managementSewage treatmentOrganic chemistry

Abstract

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The PVA-alginate-borate method was used successfully to immobilize activated sludge. The optimum polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) concentration in the immobilized sludge was determined to be 10-12.5%. A minimal alginate of 1% in the beads was needed to prevent bead agglomeration. If the pH of the saturated boric acid was adjusted to 7.0 prior to allowing droplets of the mixture of PVA, alginate and sludge to enter the solution, a high level of sludge activity could be maintained in the beads formed. During the continuous operation of a fluidized bed reactor, with hydraulic retention time (HRT) in the range of 24-3 h (BOD loading from 0.176 to 0.766 kg/d/m3) and an aeration rate at 1.0 L/min, more than 90% of BOD5, NH4(+)-N and TKN were removed. The immobilized sludge exhibited satisfactory mechanical stability without apparent breakage.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.653
Threshold uncertainty score0.541

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.044
GPT teacher head0.327
Teacher spread0.283 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations18
Published2001
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