Research Abstracts

This paper will examine reforms in water services law in two jurisdictions, Scotland and South Africa, and set out an analytical framework for such a reform process. In both jurisdictions, despite their many differences, there is a commitment to the public sector, and to finding ways to better regul

Inadequate sanitation is one of the biggest contributing factors to child mortality under the age of five and yet it remains the most neglected of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) sectors. Every year, 10 million children die before reaching their fifth birthday. This paper asserts that improved

This paper summarises the experience of Practical Action in promoting water, sanitation, waste and hygiene-related infrastructure and services in the town of Faridpur, Bangladesh. In addition to the improvement in health and local environment, the project attempted to increase income and employment

In coastal areas with a shortage of fresh drinking water, but enough wind, the combination of wind energy and reverse osmosis (RO) may provide a sustainable way to produce drinking water. Especially in remote areas the combination is also cost effective. At the moment there are already systems that

Over 100 papers were reviewed to elucidate factors influencing large-scale seawater desalination plants with reverse osmosis networks (SWRO). This paper consists of subjects such as SWRO systems investigation, system models of pretreatment and RO networks, systems optimization to minimize the total

An automatic vacuum membrane bioreactor (AVMBR) equipped with an on-line air–water–chemicals backwashing system was developed for a purpose of the reclamation of domestic wastewater (300–800 mg-COD/L) and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) wastewater (259–12775 mg-COD/L). The experimental setups wer

In the recent past, machine learning (ML) techniques such as artificial neural networks (ANN) or genetic algorithm (GA) have been increasingly used to model membrane fouling and performance. In the present study, we select genetic programming (GP) for modeling and prediction of the membrane fouling

This chapter describes the possibility to combine wastewater treatment in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) with the production of crop plants biomass. In an aquaponic RAS established in Waedenswil, Zurich, the potential of three crop plants was assessed to recycle nutrients from fish wastewat

Recovery of galacturonic acid from sugar beet pulp’s pectin hydrolysate by electrodialysis process was studied. An asymmetric electrodialysis cell (consisted of three cation-selective and two anion-selective membranes) was constructed which was firstly tested by model solutions. Then measurements we

This study tested domestic wastewater treatment membrane filtration without external cleaning in sustained long term operation. Domestic wastewater treatment plant monitoring was performed at the municipal wastewater treatment plant Devínska Nov Ves, Bratislava between February 2005 and July 2007.