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The paper presents the overview of using the modification natural zeolites for heavy metals removal from aquatic environment. Zeolites occurred naturally as microporous materials. They are hydrated aluminosilicates with special ion-exchange and sorption properties. These minerals with special three-dimensional porous structure possess advantages over other cation exchange materials such as prize, the strong selectivity for different cations at low temperatures followed with loosen of non-toxic replaceable cations ...

Industry is constantly forced to look for new ways to make production processes environmentally safe and products more competitive. In this regard, microbiological enzyme preparations increasingly replace conventional chemical catalysts in a number of industrial processes. Such preparations, in addition to environmental friendliness and high activity, have a number of advantages over enzyme preparations of vegetable and animal origin. With the aim of creating new recombinant lipase, we analyzed data on the activit...

Nowadays are developed the global ambition to increase the environmental awareness of European countries. The result is the creation of new environmental directives and acts. Several tools have been developed to assess environmental impacts, some of them are mandatory as Environmental Impact Assessment or Environmental Risk Management (are set in Act no.24/2006 Coll.) and some of them are optionally. The best known optional tools are Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS), Green Public Procurement (GPP) or Life Cy...

Municipal wastewater represents interesting source of irrigation water, especially in the situation where shortage of water is a growing problem in arid areas around the world. The potential decrease in soil fertility and expansion of arid areas due to global climate change represents the actual problem in agriculture in both developed and developing countries. The main objectives of the present study were to describe the impact of irrigation by different types of wastewater on content of C and N in soil, leaching...

Because of the limited resources of water and increasing demand for it, solutions for wastewater recycling and reuse have become of great interest. Wastewater can be recycled for the same purpose or can be reused for other purpose, but first it must to be treated. In this paper some scenarios of using Sequential Batch Reactors treatment of wastewater were investigated with the purpose of reusing or recycling in small-sized residences like chalets or guest houses. Simulations were done using BioWin, which is a powe...

Industry is constantly forced to look for new ways to make production processes environmentally safe and products more competitive. In this regard, microbiological enzyme preparations increasingly replace conventional chemical catalysts in a number of industrial processes. Such preparations, in addition to environmental friendliness and high activity, have a number of advantages over enzyme preparations of vegetable and animal origin. With the aim of creating new recombinant lipase, we analyzed data on the activit...

Granular sludge aerobic technology (AGS) has been extensively studied in recent years because of its advantages compared to activated sludge technology. Currently, this technology is implemented in SBR (sequential batch bioreactor) configuration. An experimental model bioreactor was designed for adapting the AGS technology to continuous flow conditions. It consists of a rectangular shape bioreactor, an area for pre-settling and recycling of granules, followed by a settling tank. This configuration is more suitable...