Cationic polyacrylamide (CPAM) enhanced pressurized vertical electro-osmotic dewatering of activated sludge.

Pressurized vertical electro-osmotic dewatering (PVEOD) has been regarded as a feasible method to achieve sludge deep-dewatering, but the dewatering efficiency is still challenged by high electric resistance. This study employed cationic polyacrylamide (CPAM) as a skeleton builder to enhance electro-osmotic flow in PVEOD. The sludge dewatering efficiency and synergistic effect of CPAM and PVEOD were elucidated.

Manganese doped iron-carbon composite for synergistic persulfate activation: Reactivity, stability, and mechanism.

The heterogeneous catalytic process has been under development for aqueous pollutant degradation, yet electron transfer efficiency often limits the effectiveness of catalytic reactions. In this study, a novel composite material, manganese doped iron-carbon (Mn-Fe-C), was tailor designed to promote the catalytic electron transfer. The Mn-Fe-C composite, synthesized via a facile carbothermal reduction method, was characterized and evaluated for its performance to activate persulfate (PS) and degrade Rhodamine Blue (RhB) dye under different pH, catalyst dosages, PS dosages, and pollutant concentrations.

Development of insect-resistant transgenic cotton with chimeric TVip3A* accumulating in chloroplasts.

An optimized vip3A gene, designated as vip3A* was chemically synthesized and a thi1 gene chloroplast transit peptide coding sequence was attached to its 5' end to produce the tvip3A*. vip3A* and tvip3A* genes were transformed into Gossypium hirsutum cv. Zhongmiansuo35.