Using the entrapped bioprocess as the pretreatment method for the drinking water treatment receiving eutrophic source water.

Control of organic matter, nutrients and disinfection byproduct formation is a major challenge for the drinking water treatment plants on Matsu Islands, Taiwan, receiving source water from the eutrophic reservoirs. A pilot entrapped biomass reactor (EBR) system was installed as the pretreatment process to reduce organic and nitrogen contents into the drinking water treatment plant. The effects of hydraulic retention time (HRT) and combination of preceding physical treatment (ultraviolet and ultrasound) on the treatment performance were further evaluated.

Achiral polyamine-induced chiral zinc gallophosphates with fused double helix-like strands exhibiting blue to green photoluminescence.

This study found non-chiral polyamines to be effective in inducing chiral frameworks. Four zinc gallophosphates with a chiral UCSB-7 topology were generated from the use of four different linear-chain polyamines as templates. In the structure, helical inorganic strands and templates appeared to fuse into a double helix-like arrangement.

Crystalline inorganic frameworks with 56-ring, 64-ring, and 72-ring channels.

The development of zeolite-like structures with extra-large pores (>12-membered rings, 12R) has been sporadic and is currently at 30R. In general, templating via molecules leads to crystalline frameworks, whereas the use of organized assemblies that permit much larger pores produces noncrystalline frameworks. Synthetic methods that generate crystallinity from both discrete templates and organized assemblies represent a viable design strategy for developing crystalline porous inorganic frameworks spanning the micro and meso regimes.

The first organic-templated vanadyl(IV) gallophosphates with ambient (51)V hyperfine structure, {V(2)Ga(2)O(14)} cluster or heterometal 12-ring channels.

Three new vanadyl gallium phosphates, (H(2)dap)(3)[(VO)(2)(GaO)(2)(PO(4))(4)].H(2)O (1), (H(2)dap)(1.5)[(VO)(2)(GaO)(2)(PO(4))(3)].

Novel vanadium(V) compounds with a layer structure: synthesis, crystal structures, and solid state NMR spectroscopy of [(VO(2))(2)(4,4'-bpy)(0.5)(4,4'-Hbpy)(XO(4))] x H(2)O (X = P and As).

A novel vanadium(V) phosphate and the arsenate analogue, [(VO(2))(2)(4,4'-bpy)(0.5)(4,4'-Hbpy)(XO(4))].H(2)O (X = P, As; bpy = bipyridine), have been synthesized under hydrothermal conditions and structurally characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.