Chemosphere
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China. Electronic address:
Published: April 2021
Reverse osmosis (RO), a promising technology for removing inorganic salts and a wide range of trace organic pollutants, is widely used in water treatment industry. In this study, the rejection of chlorinated, brominated, and iodinated trihalomethanes (THMs) by a multi-stage RO system was investigated. The results showed that the multi-stage RO system is effective in rejecting THMs, and THMs with large size, high hydrophobicity and low polarity were highly rejected. In the first stage, high percentage of THMs was adsorbed on RO membrane, and the THM rejection was dominated by both hydrophobic adsorption and size exclusion. The contribution of hydrophobic adsorption to THM rejection decreased significantly along RO stages due to decreased feed concentration, but the enhancement of size exclusion still ensured high rejection efficiencies for most THMs, indicating a compensation effect between two rejection mechanisms. Finally, to further understand the rejection in the multi-RO system from a perspective of THM property, multiple linear regression models were built. The impact of n-octanol-water partition coefficient (Log K) was slightly higher than that of stokes radius in the first stage, which was consistent with the rejection mechanism. But dipole moment played an increasingly important role in the second and third stage, weakening the impact of Log K on THM rejection.
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Chemosphere
April 2021
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China. Electronic address:
Reverse osmosis (RO), a promising technology for removing inorganic salts and a wide range of trace organic pollutants, is widely used in water treatment industry. In this study, the rejection of chlorinated, brominated, and iodinated trihalomethanes (THMs) by a multi-stage RO system was investigated. The results showed that the multi-stage RO system is effective in rejecting THMs, and THMs with large size, high hydrophobicity and low polarity were highly rejected.
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March 2020
Department Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (TERM), University Hospital, 97070 Würzburg, Germany.
Implants elicit an immunological response after implantation that results in the worst case in a complete implant rejection. This biomaterial-induced inflammation is modulated by macrophages and can be influenced by nanotopographical surface structures such as titania nanotubes or fractal titanium nitride (TiN) surfaces. However, their specific impact on a distinct macrophage phenotype has not been identified.
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May 2016
Cranfield Water Science Institute, Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, UK; Gas Processing Center, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
The outcomes of a pilot-scale study of the rejection of trihalomethanes (THMs) precursors by commercial ultrafiltration/nanofiltration (UF/NF) spiral-wound membrane elements are presented based on a single surface water source in Scotland. The study revealed the expected trend of increased flux and permeability with increasing pore size for the UF membranes; the NF membranes provided similar fluxes despite the lower nominal pore size. The dissolved organic carbon (DOC) passage decreased with decreasing molecular weight cut-off, with a less than one-third the passage recorded for the NF membranes than for the UF ones.
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April 2010
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts, USA.
This study tested three techniques and two approaches to access the vocal fold (VF) by transcutaneous injection using a cadaver model. The three techniques include an anatomically informed geometric technique, flexible laryngoscope (FL) guidance, and planned injection with use of computed tomography (CT). The two approaches for injection include the thyrohyoid membrane (THM) and the cricothyroid membrane (CTM).
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August 2009
Hillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Background: Up to 70% of children with small bowel transplantation (SBTx) experience acute cellular rejection (ACR). Allospecific CD154+ T cells predict liver ACR in children in a novel, 16-hour mixed leukocyte response (MLR) assay, but remain untested in SBTx.
Methods: The expression of CD154 was measured in 4 subsets-naive (N) and memory (M) CD154+ T-helper (Th) and T-cytotoxic (Tc) cells (ie, CD154+ ThN, CD154+ ThM, CD154+ TcN, and CD154+ TcM, respectively)-in the MLR of single blood samples obtained from 32 children with SBTx within 60 days of SBTx biopsy.
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