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Removal of ibuprofen by sodium alginate–coated iron-carbon granules combined with the ultrasound and Fenton technologies: influencing factors and degradation intermediates
This study focuses on the preparation of sodium alginate–coated iron-carbon granules (FeCGs) and their capacity to remove ibuprofen (IBU) by combining Fenton and ultrasound technologies. The preferred preparat...
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Environmental Issues
The global resource shortages and ecological environment crisis have been increasing since the second half of the twentieth century.
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Cyclic Flow of Material: Concepts and Classifications
Resource shortages and environmental deterioration are primarily attributed to the disturbance caused by human activities beyond the natural capacity, and the primary purpose of human activity is to satisfy th...
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Circulation Flow of Material: Fixed-Point Logistics Analysis
There are two representative methods of material flow analysis: the tracking method that focuses on the material particle and the fixed-point method that focuses on a particular region. The previous chapter ex...
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Eco-Design
Previously, the type of property an enterprise should possess was specified from two aspects, namely the requirement of a circular economy for an enterprise and the role of an enterprise to achieve a circular ...
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Introduction
First, offering a research–discussion course is timely. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the effect of human activities on the ecological environment has become increasingly obvious, and a sign...
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Value Flow of a Circular Economy
The anthropogenic flow of material was thoroughly discussed in Chaps. 4 through 6; specifically, the basic process of material...
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Circular Economy Guarantee System
In the previous chapters, we defined the pattern of a circular economy, including the type of flow relationship that material energy and value should have and the type of implementation method to apply to diff...
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Enterprise Environmental Management
From the previous discussion, we know that a sustainable development enterprise should be able to constantly provide high-quality services to society and receive economic benefits during the service process an...
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Sustainable Development Management
Because many natural resources are limited and the environmental quality of many areas is poor, environmental management is still very necessary.
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Circulation of Substances: Analysis of Logistics
To clarify the concept of mankind’s flow of material, this chapter will explore how material flows in the human socio-economic system and how the flow may be managed and optimized. Through the discussion in th...
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Flow of Energy
As previously mentioned, the goal of an anthropogenic flow of material is to meet specific needs of human beings. The transformation of material from natural resource into a product with specific service funct...
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Implementation of a Circular Economy
A circular economy is an economic form with material circular flow as its core, and it attempts to reduce the influences of human activity on the natural environment system via the flow of closed material in t...
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Sustainable Development Enterprise
From the analysis in the previous chapters, it can be observed that a circular economy has a complex structure and its economic component has an enterprise as the minimum independent accounting and basic work ...
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Assessment of Environmentally Friendly Enterprises
In the previous chapters, we have discussed a method to evaluate the environmental performance of the product (or service) provided by an enterprise, specifically, the product LCA method, and we have also disc...
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Behavior of chlorpyrifos and its major metabolite TCP (3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol) in agricultural soils amended with drinking water treatment residuals
Chlorpyrifos can be effectively adsorbed by drinking water treatment residuals (WTR), ubiquitous and non-hazardous by-products of potable water production. The major metabolite 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol (TCP...
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Open AccessApplicability of drinking water treatment residue for lake restoration in relation to metal/metalloid risk assessment
Drinking water treatment residue (DWTR), a byproduct generated during potable water production, exhibits a high potential for recycling to control eutrophication. However, this beneficial recycling is hampered...
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Comparison of metals extractability from Al/Fe-based drinking water treatment residuals
Recycling of drinking water treatment residuals (WTRs) as environment amendments has attracted substantial interest due to their productive reuse concomitant with waste minimization. In the present study, the ...
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Nitrogen removal and microbial communities in a three-stage system simulating a riparian environment
The riparian zone is an active interface for nitrogen removal, in which nitrogen transformations by microorganisms have not been valued. In this study, a three-stage system was constructed to simulate the ripa...
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Vertical distribution of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) in the hyporheic zone of a eutrophic river in North China
Nitrification plays a significant role in the global nitrogen cycle, and this concept has been challenged with the discovery of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) in the environment. In this paper, the vertical v...
