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ArticleMembranes2021

Adsorption/Coagulation/Ceramic Microfiltration for Treating Challenging Waters for Drinking Water Production.

Margarida Campinas, Rui M C Viegas, Rosário Coelho, Helena Lucas, Maria João Rosa

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Article in Membranes, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Margarida CampinasWater Quality and Treatment Laboratory, Urban Water Unit, Hydraulics and Environment Department, LNEC-National Civil Engineering Laboratory, 1700-066 Lisbon, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-1955-2393
Rui M C ViegasWater Quality and Treatment Laboratory, Urban Water Unit, Hydraulics and Environment Department, LNEC-National Civil Engineering Laboratory, 1700-066 Lisbon, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-2034-9838
Rosário CoelhoAdA-Águas do Algarve S.A., Rua do Repouso, 8000-302 Faro, Portugal.
Helena LucasAdA-Águas do Algarve S.A., Rua do Repouso, 8000-302 Faro, Portugal.
Maria João RosaWater Quality and Treatment Laboratory, Urban Water Unit, Hydraulics and Environment Department, LNEC-National Civil Engineering Laboratory, 1700-066 Lisbon, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-5705-366X
National Laboratory for Civil Engineering · PTÁguas de Portugal (Portugal) · PT

Funding

European Union LIFE Program LIFE12 ENV/PT/001154
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pressurized powdered activated carbon/coagulation/ceramic microfiltration (PAC/Alum/MF) was investigated at pilot scale for treating low turbidity and low natural organic matter (NOM) surface waters spiked with organic microcontaminants. A total of 11 trials with clarified or non-clarified waters spiked with pesticides, pharmaceutical compounds, or microcystins were conducted to assess the removal of microcontaminants, NOM (as 254 nm absorbance, A254, and dissolved organic carbon, DOC), trihalomethane formation potential (THMFP), aerobic endospores as protozoan (oo)cysts indicators, bacteriophages as viruses indicators, and regular drinking water quality parameters. PAC/(Alum)/MF achieved 75% to complete removal of total microcontaminants with 4-18 mg/L of a mesoporous PAC and 2 h contact time, with a reliable particle separation (turbidity < 0.03 NTU) and low aluminium residuals. Microcontaminants showed different amenabilities to PAC adsorption, depending on their charge, hydrophobicity (Log Kow), polar surface area and aromatic rings count. Compounds less amenable to adsorption showed higher vulnerability to NOM competition (higher A254 waters), greatly benefiting from DOC-normalized PAC dose increase. PAC/Alum/MF also attained 29-47% NOM median removal, decreasing THMFP by 26%. PAC complemented NOM removal by coagulation (+15-19%), though with no substantial improvement towards THMFP and membrane fouling. Furthermore, PAC/Alum/MF was a full barrier against aerobic endospores, and PAC dosing was crucial for ≥1.1-log reduction in bacteriophages.

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ceramic membraneshybrid processmicrocontaminantsmicrocystinspesticidespharmaceuticalspowdered activated carbon/coagulation/microfiltrationprotozoan cystsTHMFPviruses

Identifiers

PMID33514022
PMCPMC7911376
OpenAlexW3124891850

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