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Pollution due to plastics and microplastics in Lake Geneva and in the Mediterranean Sea

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Florian Faure, Hadrien Baecher, Marie Corbaz

Aquatic pollution due to plastics, and especially microplastics, is becoming the subject of growing research together with an increasing awareness of their environmental harm. While most of the studies focus on oceans, the situation regarding lakes remains ...

2012

Hygrothermal Ageing and Damage Characterization in Epoxies and in Epoxy-Glass Interfaces

Marco Lai

Nowadays, composite materials are increasingly used in high technology fields such as aerospace and automotive because of the combination of excellent mechanical performance and lightweight. For these characteristics, classical metal alloys are progressive ...

EPFL2011

Elimination of micropollutants in wastewater treatment plants : Ozonation or activated carbon? Conclusions of a one-year pilot project

David Andrew Barry, Luca Rossi, Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Jonas Margot, Anoys Magnet

Many organic micropollutants present in wastewater, such as pharmaceuticals and pesticides, are poorly removed in conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). To reduce the release of these substances into the aquatic environment, advanced treatments a ...

2011

Elimination of micropollutants in wastewater treatment plants: Ozonation or activated carbon? Conclusions of a one-year pilot project

David Andrew Barry, Luca Rossi, Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Jonas Margot, Nathalie Chèvre Rossi, Anoys Magnet

2011

Critical particle concentration in electrophoretic deposition

Stefano Mischler, Johann Michler

The role of particle concentration in electrophoretic deposition (EPD) was investigated with two different suspension systems. The first system consisted of positively charged TiO2 nanoparticles dispersed in isopropanol with 1 vol% water. The second system ...

2010

Enhanced sonochemical degradation of bisphenol-A by bicarbonate ions

César Pulgarin

Sonochemical elimination of organic pollutants can take place through two degradation pathways. Molecules with relatively large Henry’s law constants will be incinerated inside the cavitation bubble, while nonvolatile molecules with low Henry’s law constan ...

2010

In silico feasibility of novel biodegradation pathways for 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Stacey Deleria Finley

Background: Bioremediation offers a promising pollution treatment method in the reduction and elimination of man-made compounds in the environment. Computational tools to predict novel biodegradation pathways for pollutants allow one to explore the capabil ...

BioMed Central2010

Tailoring the hydraulic impedance of out-of-plane micromachined electrospray sources with integrated electrodes

Herbert Shea, Renato Krpoun

Hydraulic impedance is a critical parameter for the operation of electrospray emitters, and for preventing flooding when spraying from arrays of emitters. Controlling flow rate by tuning the flow impedance allows accessing different operating modes, such a ...

American Institute of Physics2009

Thermodynamic Analysis of Biodegradation Pathways

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Stacey Deleria Finley

Microorganisms provide a wealth of bio-degradative potential in the reduction and elimination of xenobiotic compounds in the environment. One useful metric to evaluate potential biodegradation pathways is thermodynamic feasibility. However, experimental da ...

2009

Dispositif de manipulation et de transport de perles magnetiques

Martinus Gijs, Amar Rida

A device for transporting magnetic or magnetisable microbeads ( 25 ) in a capillary chamber ( 14 ) comprises a permanent magnet ( 10 ) or an electromagnet ( 11 ) for subjecting the capillary chamber to a substantially uniform magnetic field, to apply a per ...

2009

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