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Record W4407633321 · doi:10.1038/s41545-025-00445-7

Fibrous super-bridging agents simultaneously improve contaminants removal and sludge dewatering via a very compact three-in-one process

2025· article· en· W4407633321 on OpenAlex

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

Venuenpj Clean Water · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicCoagulation and Flocculation Studies
Canadian institutionsÉcole de Technologie SupérieureUniversité du Québec à Montréal
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsBridging (networking)DewateringProcess (computing)ContaminationProcess engineeringWaste managementEnvironmental scienceMaterials sciencePulp and paper industryComputer scienceEngineeringGeotechnical engineeringEcology

Abstract

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A compact three-in-one water treatment process, combining a flocculant, a fibrous super-bridging agent, and a screen-based floc retention system, simultaneously improves water treatment and sludge dewatering. The presence of fibrous materials allows for the formation of very large flocs, efficient floc separation via screening (without settling), and sludge dewatering through a compact press-filter system. The implementation of this three-in-one process is possible due to the formation of very large fiber-based flocs. The sludge containing fibers was subsequently dewatered using a screen-based press filter without further chemical addition. The use of fibers also significantly improved the removal of total organic carbon, nanoplastics, and microplastics. This three-in-one process could be used for decentralized water treatment in drinking water and wastewater applications in small cities, marginalized communities, and developing countries. The compact process, which also performs sludge dewatering, would reduce the risks associated with mismanaged sludge to the environment and human health.

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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)0.000
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: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.127
Threshold uncertainty score0.505

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.257
Teacher spread0.240 · 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