Groundwater nitrate contamination: Assessment and treatment using <i>Moringa oleifera</i> Lam. seed extract and activated carbon filtration
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Abstract
The present research evaluates the groundwater nitrate concentration of the Maringá region (Paraná State, Brazil) aiming at nitrate removal by coagulation/flocculation using a natural coagulant obtained from the seeds of the Moringa oleifera Lam. plant (MO) combined with an activated carbon filter. Groundwater samples were collected in Maringá City metropolitan area and characterized by physicochemical analyses. The results showed groundwater NO 3 − concentrations ranging from 0–60 mg NO 3 − L −1 . Thus, the nitrate variation in the water used in the coagulation/flocculation assays lay between 10–60 mg · L −1 of NO 3 − . In these assays both aqueous and saline MO raw extracts were added (concentrations between 0.25–11 g · L −1 ). Coagulation/flocculation treatment with aqueous MO extract presents nitrate removal of 73.3 %, and saline MO extract presents 85.4 %. The source that presented the highest nitrate concentration along with the ideal MO concentration in the coagulation/flocculation process was used for the coagulation/flocculation process followed by activated carbon filtration. The treatment with MO combined with the filter met Brazilian, American, and international potability standards for nitrate and turbidity. The present study reveals the presence of nitrate in the groundwater of the area and also enables new procedures for treating this kind of water in small rural properties and needy communities.
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Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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