Development of a dual-functional adsorbent for simultaneous removal of cationic and anionic nutrients from contaminated waste streams
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Abstract
This work investigated the potential of various natural, modified, and synthetic adsorbent materials for the removal of both cationic (e.g., NH4+) and anionic (e.g., PO43-) nutrients from contaminated waste streams. Among all the studied adsorbents, a commercially available synthetic adsorbent, namely Umix, with 101.6 mg total-P/g, and natural clinoptilolite (NZ) with 17.9 mg total-N/g adsorption capacities demonstrated the best performances in capturing phosphorous-P and nitrogen-N species from aqueous solutions. Zirconium-modified clay (ZrC) also showed a high capacity in adsorbing P species, and eventually, two adsorbent mixtures, including ‘ZrC+NZ’ and ‘Umix+NZ’ were selected for exploring the simultaneous removal of N and P species from bisolute solutions. The effect of various operational parameters, including adsorbent dosage, solution pH, initial nutrient concentrations, and contact time were studied. In an optimum adsorbent (g): solution (ml) loading ratio of 1:300 for ZrC and Umix, and 1:60 for NZ, with 24 h contact time, and using a synthetic NH4-PO4 solution with concentration and pH similar to the targeted wastewater (i.e., dairy farm wastewater), we could achieve 96% total-P and 26% NH4-N removals using ‘ZrC+NZ’, and 94% total-P and 29% NH4-N removals using ‘Umix+NZ’. The pseudosecond-order kinetic model best fitted with experimental data, indicating that chemisorption was the predominant mechanism in bi-solute adsorption processes. A cross-linking reaction between sodium alginate and barium chloride fabricated granules of the powdered adsorbent mixtures. Applying 0.5 g of each of the ‘ZrC/NZ’ and ‘Umix/NZ’ granules in 30 mL of dairy farm wastewater resulted in 20% and 60% total-P and 1.3% and 13% NH4-N removals, respectively. The obtained results showed that the developed granules could be used as dual-functional adsorbent materials to remove cationic and anionic nutrients from contaminated waste streams.
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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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