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Mani T, Hawangchu Y, Khamdahsag P, Lohwacharin J, Phihusut D, Arsiranant I, Junchompoo C, Piemjaiswang R. Gaining new insights into macroplastic transport 'hotlines' and fine-scale retention-remobilisation using small floating high-resolution satellite drifters in the Chao Phraya River estuary of Bangkok. Environ Pollut 2023; 320:121124. [PMID: 36682617 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2022] [Revised: 12/22/2022] [Accepted: 01/18/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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In river plastic pollution research little is known about the detailed pathways and interruptions that occur during the journey of macroplastic debris (>5 cm) from land to sea. Data on fine-scale and high-accuracy transport trajectories and cycles of retention (when macroplastics are trapped, e.g. at a pier) and remobilisation is needed to inform global river plastic transport models as well as mechanical cleanup efforts. Though well established in the marine environment, the use of floating satellite drifters to understand macroplastic debris transport in tidal rivers and estuaries is in its infancy. Exploring the capacity to investigate fine-scale macroplastic debris-estuary interactions, this study brings together, on the one hand, a small, sensitive, floating satellite drifter with, on the other hand, the major riverine-marine habitat of the Chao Phraya River estuary at Bangkok, Thailand. The used grapefruit-sized drifters (n = 5) with minimal drogue (ρ ≈ 0.67 g/cm3) sent their positions at up to 4 m and 5 min spatiotemporal resolution via cellular GSM network for up to 48 days. This study indicates that river macroplastic debris transport 'hotlines' (positions where floating debris will likely pass by in a river) as well as retention-remobilisation cycles can be studied at fine scale. On their way through the river and gulf, covering between 9 and 696 km, drifters got stuck up to 23 times, spending 80% of their river lifetime in retention. Furthermore, it is outlined that the trajectories can be linked with environmental factors such as bathymetry and tides to more accurately model macroplastic debris behaviour in rivers. Finally, it is shown that trajectories crossing the riverine-marine continuum at the estuary can be accurately traced to support future investigations on the so far scarcely evidenced river mouth emissions of macroplastic debris.
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- Thomas Mani
- The Ocean Cleanup, 3014 JH, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Aquatic Resources Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand
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- Environmental Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand
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- Environmental Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand; Program Management Unit for Human Resources & Institutional Development, Research and Innovation (PMU-B), Office of National Higher Education Science Research and Innovation Policy Council, Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand
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- Marine and Coastal Resources Research Center, Eastern Upper Gulf of Thailand, Chachoengsao, 24130, Thailand
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- Marine and Coastal Resources Research Center, Eastern Upper Gulf of Thailand, Chachoengsao, 24130, Thailand
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Sangkarak S, Phetrak A, Kittipongvises S, Kitkaew D, Phihusut D, Lohwacharin J. Adsorptive performance of activated carbon reused from household drinking water filter for hexavalent chromium-contaminated water. J Environ Manage 2020; 272:111085. [PMID: 32854889 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2020] [Revised: 06/30/2020] [Accepted: 07/12/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Powdered activated carbon blocks (PACBs) are waste products obtained from household drinking water purification systems. In this study, we demonstrate that they can be used as adsorbents for the cost-effective and environmentally benign removal of hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) from contaminated-water and rinse electroplating wastewater. To evaluate Cr(VI) sorption onto the PACB, studies on equilibrium, kinetics, and thermodynamics were performed using batch mode experiments. The experimental results indicated that Cr(VI) ions were efficiently adsorbed under acidic conditions (i.e., at initial pH below 3) and low initial Cr(VI) concentrations. The adsorptive behaviors of the PACB for Cr(VI) were well explained by the Langmuir isotherm, as well as pseudo-second-order kinetic models, suggesting that a Cr(VI) monolayer was adsorbed onto the PACB surface via chemisorption. The maximum adsorption capacity of Cr(VI) onto the PACB was determined to be 6.207 mg/g. The results of thermodynamic studies revealed that the adsorption process of Cr(VI) onto PACB was endothermic and non-spontaneous. Additionally, analysis of the PACB after Cr(VI) adsorption at an initial pH of 2 using scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectrometry, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) revealed that the interaction between the surface oxygenic functional groups on the PACB and Cr(VI) was primarily responsible for Cr(VI) sorption via surface complexation and electrostatic interactions. Based on the result of XPS analysis, the presence of trivalent chromium on the PACB surfaces indicated that some synergistic redox reactions involving Cr(VI) could have occurred during the sorption process. Although a commercially available powdered activated carbon outperformed the PACB adsorbent with respect to Cr(VI) removal from wastewater, complete Cr(VI) adsorption could be achieved using relatively large quantities of the PACB. These findings indicate that the PACB adsorbent could be used as a cheap and efficient material for the removal of Cr(VI) from wastewater.
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- Sirirat Sangkarak
- Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
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- Department of Sanitary Engineering, Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; Center of Excellence on Environmental Health and Toxicology (EHT), Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Environmental Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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Torit J, Phihusut D. Phosphorus removal from wastewater using eggshell ash. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2019; 26:34101-34109. [PMID: 30276697 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-018-3305-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Accepted: 09/20/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Eggshell ash was used as an adsorbent to remove phosphorus from wastewater. Adsorbent dose, initial phosphorus concentration, and contact time were investigated to determine the optimum conditions. Results indicate that 5 g of eggshell ash adsorbent with 1.5 mg L-1 of initial phosphorus concentration removed over 90% of the phosphorus. When the temperature was increased, phosphorus removal potential also increased. Specific surface area, morphological features, and structure of the adsorbent were characterized by Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area analysis, scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (SEM-EDS), and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Results showed prominent calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus in the eggshell ash surface after adsorption. The elemental composition of eggshell ash surfaces before adsorption did not contain phosphorus, revealing that calcium carbonate-based eggshell ash was co-precipitated with calcium phosphate. The adsorption mechanism was studied by applying Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm models. Experimental data fit well with the Langmuir model, which indicates monolayer adsorption. Eggshell ash was also applied as an adsorbent in wastewater at Srinakharinwirot University dormitories, resulting in 80% phosphorus removal within 2 h. These findings indicated that eggshell ash could be applied as an adsorbent for phosphorus treatment and removal from domestic and industrial wastewater.
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- Jirawan Torit
- Department of Public Health, Faculty of Physical Education, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand.
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- Environmental Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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Ittisupornrat S, Phihusut D, Kitkaew D, Sangkarak S, Phetrak A. Performance of dissolved organic matter removal from membrane bioreactor effluent by magnetic powdered activated carbon. J Environ Manage 2019; 248:109314. [PMID: 31376611 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2019] [Revised: 05/13/2019] [Accepted: 07/24/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Magnetic powdered activated carbon (Mag-PAC) was successfully developed and applied as an adsorbent for dissolved organic matter (DOM) removal from the effluent of a membrane bioreactor (MBR) using batch experiments. The results show that a coating of iron oxide particles is consistently distributed on the surface of powdered activated carbon (PAC), resulting in a decrease in the specific surface area and in the pH at the point of zero charge, even though the particle sizes of Mag-PAC and PAC were similar. A Mag-PAC dosage of 4 g/L exhibited efficient and fast DOM adsorption with a relatively short contact time of 5 min. The iron oxide coating on the surface of PAC may play an important role in the DOM removal efficiency. Temkin isotherm and pseudo-second order kinetic models well described the DOM adsorption, suggesting that the adsorption of DOM onto Mag-PAC could be mainly governed by a chemisorption mechanism. Humic acid- and fulvic acid-like compounds and aromatic DOM with molecular weights (MWs) between 2610 Da and 3030 Da were efficiently removed by Mag-PAC, whereas aromatic DOM with an MW of 1760 Da was poorly removed. Our results demonstrate that the application of Mag-PAC for DOM adsorption is attractive and yields benefits as a posttreatment system for MBR effluent due to its efficient and fast DOM adsorption.
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- Suda Ittisupornrat
- Environmental Research and Training Center (ERTC), Department of Environmental Quality Promotion, Khlong 5, Khlong Luang, Pathumthani, Thailand
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- Environmental Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Department of Sanitary Engineering, Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; Center of Excellence on Environmental Health and Toxicology (EHT), Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand
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- Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand.
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A highly active and stable cobalt–graphene electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is produced by optimizing the reduction condition of graphene oxide in terms of temperature and time.
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- Doungkamon Phihusut
- Electrochemical Reaction and Technology Laboratory (ERTL)
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering
- Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
- Gwangju 500-712
- South Korea
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- Electrochemical Reaction and Technology Laboratory (ERTL)
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering
- Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
- Gwangju 500-712
- South Korea
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- Electrochemical Reaction and Technology Laboratory (ERTL)
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering
- Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
- Gwangju 500-712
- South Korea
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- Electrochemical Reaction and Technology Laboratory (ERTL)
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering
- Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
- Gwangju 500-712
- South Korea
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Phihusut D, Ocon JD, Jeong B, Kim JW, Lee JK, Lee J. Gently reduced graphene oxide incorporated into cobalt oxalate rods as bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst. Electrochim Acta 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2014.05.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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