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The obtained high values of the adsorption capacity of sewage sludge derived biochars confirmed that thermal treatment is a very effective tool of bio-waste management.Triclocarban (TCC), considered an endocrine-disrupting, persistent, and bioaccumulating organic matter, has attracted a great deal of attention for its pollution and health risks. However, studies on its toxicological mechanism, especially for embryo development are limited. This article explores the cardiac developmental toxicity induced in zebrafish embryos after exposure to different TCC concentrations. First, liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry was used in detecting TCC in embryos in vivo after exposure to various TCC. Results showed that embryonic TCC content reached 9.23 ng after exposure to 300 μg/L TCC, the heart rates of the embryos markedly decreased, heart abnormalities significantly increased. In addition, obvious pericardial effusion was observed in the larvae. Through transcriptome sequencing, 200 differential gene expression (DGE) patterns were detected in the TCC (300 μg/L) experimental and control groups. The results of GO function analysis and KEGG pathway of DGE showed that aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) activation and cyp-related genes (cyp1a, cyp1b1 and cyp1c) were significantly up-regulated. these affected the normal development of zebrafish embryonic heart, tissue edema, and hemorrhage. TCC exhibited strong cardiac teratogenic effects and developmental toxicity, which is partly related to AhR activation. Transcriptome-based results are helpful in precisely determining the risk of TCC exposure. The potential mechanism between TCC and AhR should be further investigated.In this study, two-step surface modification of sawdust using triethanolamine (at 180 °C) and iodomethane (at 42 °C) was performed to produce a novel quaternized biosorbent, TEA-I-SD. The characterization studies revealed significant morphological changes in the sawdust and successful quaternization with a nitrogen content of 5.75%. The highest vanadium removal (96.2%) was achieved at pH 4 (dosage 1 g/L, initial vanadium concentration 19.1 mg/L). Equilibrium was achieved within 8 h of contact time and the adsorption kinetics were well fitted with the pseudo-second-order model. Both film diffusion and intra-particle diffusion contributed to the adsorption process, while the latter was the rate-limiting step. The maximum vanadium adsorption capacity of TEA-I-SD (35.0 mg/g, pH 4) was close to the theoretical value obtained from the Langmuir model. The best fit was achieved with the Redlich-Peterson model, exhibiting a monolayer adsorption phenomenon. Tests with real mine water containing 11 mg/L of vanadium also confirmed its high removal (91.3%, dosage 1 g/L) using TEA-I-SD at pH 4. The TEA-I-SD could be reused three times without significant capacity loss after regeneration, although the desorption efficiency was rather low (synthetic solution 38.5-40.5% and mine water 26.2-43.1%).Doping heterogeneous atoms into BiOX is recognized as an effective method to improve its photocatalytic activity. Here, S-doped BiOBr (S-BiOBr) was synthesized via a solvothermal method in the absence of water, which is supposed to substitute O as S2- in the lattice. This material is firstly used for the visible-light-driven degradation of ibuprofen, a model anti-inflammatory drug. The degradation efficiency of S-BiOBr is much higher than that of pure BiOBr. The degradation kinetic constant for S-BiOBr (2.48 × 10-2 min-1) is about 3 times as high as that of pure BiOBr (0.83 × 10-2 min-1). It is found that S-doping tunes the band structure of BiOBr, leading to a narrower band gap and thus higher utilization efficiency of visible light. The degradation of ibuprofen on S-BiOBr can be attributed to the generation of H2O2 and OH radicals. selleck OH radical plays a synergistic role along with holes in the photocatalytic degradation process, which is supposed to be better than the reported single hole- or superoxide-dominant reaction. This work reveals a previously unrecognized and more efficient method for the degradation of organic contaminants on BiOBr.Herein, we demonstrated the construction of three-dimensional (3D) cerium oxide (CeOx)/SBA-16 nanocomposites for efficient removal of bisphenol A (BPA) via a catalytic ozonation, with a high BPA mineralization up to 60.9% in 90 min. On one hand, the CeOx/SBA-16 mesoporous structured materials presented large surface area and uniform pore distribution, which was conducive to the adsorption of transformation by-products (TBPs) and then, the mass transfer. On the other hand, CeOx/SBA-16 could enhance the ozone utilization efficiency and meanwhile facilitate the formation of OH, the main reactive oxygen species. Through the exploration of dissoluble organic matters and the identification of the reaction intermediates, two BPA degradation pathways were proposed. This approach reported here will benefit the design and construction of mesoporous structured materials for catalytic elimination of hazards to remediate the environment.We developed biochar by pyrolysis of pinewood wastes at different temperatures and investigated its potential to nitrate and phosphate from single and binary solutions. An in-depth characterization of biochar was carried out to study its physical, surface morphological and chemical characteristics using X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared and scanning electron microscopy analyses. The impact of pyrolysis temperatures (300-600 °C) on the biochar yield, the biochar's elemental composition, and its adsorption characteristics was examined. Biochar produced at 600 °C showed a maximum uptake for both nitrate and phosphate due to its high C content (63.8%), pore volume (0.201 cm3/g), surface area (204.2 m2/g) and reduced acidic binding groups. The influence of pH, initial solute concentrations, contact time on the removal of a single solute at a time by biochar was examined. Results revealed that pinewood-derived biochar had its maximum performance at pH 2, with predicted equilibrium uptakes of 20.5 and 4.20 mg/g for phosphate and nitrate, respectively at initial solute concentrations of 60 mg/L within 360 min. The single solute isotherm was studied using the Freundlich, Langmuir and Toth models, and kinetics was described using the pseudo-first and -second order models. While using dual-solutes, biochar showed preference towards phosphate as confirmed by high affinity factor. The dual-solute kinetic experiments showed that around 95% of phosphate was removed within 45 min, whereas it took 240 min to achieve 95% total nitrate removal from the mixture. Thus, the biochar removes phosphate preferentially with high selectivity as compared to nitrate.
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