Browsing Environmental Science by Author "ETAL."
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An analysis of atmospheric pollutants concentration in urban area in Greece
Triantafyllou, AG; Patra, A; Zuburtikudis, Ioannis; ETAL. (2001-07)In this study continuous concentration measurements of atmospheric pollutants for a 3 year period are analyzed. These measurements have been carried out in the central area of Kozani (down town Kozani), the largest city ... -
Brine management in desalination industry: From waste to resources generation
Mavukkandy, Musthafa O; Chabib, Chahd M; Mustafa, Ibrahim; Ghaferi, Amal Al; ETAL. (Elsevier, 2019-12)Desalination brine has high salinity and contains various chemical contaminants and its disposal causes a major concern for desalination around the world. Environmentally friendly and economically feasible methods are ... -
Comparative antimicrobial activities of wild and cultivated varieties of Olea European different leaves extracts in Pakistan
Ahmad, Waqar; Khan, Hamayun; Siddique, Muhammad; ETAL. (Academy for Environment and Life Sciences, India, 2020)This research aims to find out the antimicrobial activities of the extracts of wild and cultivated varieties of Olive plants were screened for their antimicrobial activities against nine bacterial strains (six gram-positive, ... -
Covalent surface entanglement of polyvinylidene fluoride membranes with carbon nanotubes
Gharabli, Samer Al; Kujawa, Joanna; Mavukkandy, Musthafa O; Agbaje, Taofeeqah A; ETAL. (Pergamon, 2018-03)Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes play a key role in several industrial applications. Tuning the properties of these membranes enables a sharp selectivity for the target application. The goal of this work is to ... -
Exploiting the interplay between liquid-liquid demixing and crystallization of the PVDF membrane for membrane distillation
Nawi, NIM; Bilad, MR; Nordin, NAHM; Mavukkandy, Musthafa O; Putra, ZA; ETAL. (Hindawi, 2018)Membrane distillation (MD) purifies water by transporting its vapor through a hydrophobic membrane. An ideal MD membrane poses high water flux and high fouling, scaling, and wetting resistances. In this study, we develop ... -
Fabrication of blend polyvinylidene fluoride/chitosan membranes for enhanced flux and fouling resistance
Baeza Elizalde, Cynthia Noemi; Gharabl, Samer Al; Kujawa, Joanna; Mavukkandy, Musthafa O; ETAL. (Elsevier, 2018-01)The fabrication of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes was studied using chitosan as a hydrophilic additive for flux enhancement and stability. Chitosan (CS) was blended with PVDF at 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5% (w/w) ... -
Fouling mechanisms in ultrafiltration under constant flux: Effect of feed spacer design
Sreedhar, Nurshaun; Mavukkandy, Musthafa O; Aminabhavi, Tejraj M; Hong, Seungkwan; ETAL. (Elsevier, 2020-09)The impact of feed spacer design on membrane fouling mechanism in ultrafiltration (UF) process under constant flux mode was systematically investigated. Thecombined intermediate pore blocking and cake filtration model was ... -
Leaching of PVP from PVDF/PVP blend membranes: Impacts on membrane structure and fouling in membrane bioreactors
Mavukkandy, Musthafa O; Bilad, Muhammad R; Giwa, Adewale; Hasan, Shadi W; ETAL. (Springer US, 2016-05)Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes are widely used in membrane industry, especially for membrane bioreactors (MBRs). Many PVDF membranes contain residual polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) that acts as a pore-forming additive. ... -
Nanoporous hollow fiber polyethersulfone membranes for the removal of residual contaminants from treated wastewater effluent: Functional and molecular implications
Giwa, Adewale; Chakraborty, Sudip; Mavukkandy, Musthafa O; Arafat, Hassan A; ETAL. (Elsevier, 2017-12)Hollow fiber membranes consisting of polyethersulfone (PES) reformed with high proportions of single bondOH, aryl-N and alkyl-F groups in nonsolvent additives were compared for the removal of residual Cr (VI), COD, and ... -
Photocatalytic hollow fiber membranes for the degradation of pharmaceutical compounds in wastewater
Chakraborty, Sudip; Loutatidou, Savvina; i Palmisano, Giovann; Kujawa, Joanna; Mavukkandy, Musthafa O; ETAL. (Elsevier, 2017-10)In this research, the degradation by heterogeneous photocatalysis of organic pharmaceutical waste compounds using TiO2 nanoparticles immobilized on polymeric commercial hollow fiber (HF) ultrafiltration membranes was ... -
Polydopamine-coated graphene oxide nanosheets embedded in sulfonated poly (ether sulfone) hybrid UF membranes with superior antifouling properties for water treatment
Kumar, Mahendra; Sreedhar, Nurshaun; Thomas, Navya; Mavukkandy, Musthafa O; ETAL. (Elsevier, 2022-04)A novel high-performance hybrid ultrafiltration (UF) membrane was fabricated by blending polydopamine-coated graphene oxide (PDGO) nanosheets with sulfonated poly(ether sulfone) (SPES) via phase inversion method and tested ... -
Reversing membrane wetting in membrane distillation: comparing dryout to backwashing with pressurized air
Warsinger, David M; Servi, Amelia; Connors, Grace B; Mavukkandy, Musthafa O; ETAL. (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017)The critical failure mode for membrane distillation (MD) desalination is wetting through the pores of the hydrophobic membrane, which allows the saline solution to leak through and contaminate the permeate. The standard ... -
Shrinkage, defect and membrane distillation performance of composite PVDF membranes
Bilad, Muhammad R; Burrieza, E Guillen; Mavukkandy, Musthafa O; Marzooqi, Faisal A Al; ETAL. (Elsevier, 2015-11)This study addresses the importance of non-woven support (NWS) during the preparation of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes for membrane distillation (MD). Five different NWSs were investigated as substrate materials ... -
SOLS: A scheme for outsourced location based service
Chen, Chi; Zhu, Xiaojie; Shen, Peisong; Yu, Jing; ETAL. (Academic Press, 2015-10)Due to the high demand on computation and storage, location based service (LBS) providers prefer to outsource their data and services to powerful cloud service providers (CSPs). However, this mechanism brings three challenging ... -
Super-Hydrophobic Polymer/Nanoparticle Composites For The Protection Of Marble Monuments
Manoudis, P.; Tsakalo, A.; Zuburtikudis, Ioannis; ETAL. (2008-04)Water contributes substantially to the degradation of monuments through freezing and thawing cycles and also because it is a carrier of pollutants and salt solutions. Water repellency can be promoted by the application of ... -
Synthesis of polydopamine coated tungsten oxide@ poly (vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) electrospun nanofibers as multifunctional membranes for water applications
Mavukkandy, Musthafa O; Ibrahim, Yazan; Almarzooqi, Faisal; Naddeo, Vincenzo; Karanikolos, Georgios N; ETAL. (Elsevier, 2022-01)In this work, electrospun poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) (PVDF-HFP) nanofiber membranes were loaded with tungsten oxide (WO3) nanoparticles, surface coated with polydopamine (PDA) hierarchical structures, ... -
Tackling membrane fouling in microalgae filtration using nylon 6, 6 nanofiber membrane
Bilad, Muhammad R; Azizo, AS; Wirzal, MDH; Jia, L Jia; Putra, ZA; Nordin, NAHM; Mavukkandy, Musthafa O; ETAL. (Academic Press, 2018)Microalgae technology, if managed properly, has promising roles in solving food-water-energy nexus. The Achilles' heel is, however, to lower the costs associated with cultivation and harvesting. As a favorable technique, ... -
Three‐dimensional graphene/MWCNT-MnO2 nanocomposites for high‐performance capacitive deionization (CDI) application
Wadi, Vijay S; Ibrahim, Yazan; Arangadi, Abdul F; Kilybay, Alibi; Mavukkandy, Musthafa O; ETAL. (Elsevier, 2022-05)Surface area and the conductivity of the electrode materials are crucial in achieving high desalination performance in capacitive deionization (CDI) applications. In this study, we have successfully fabricated 3D ...