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Controlled Synthesis and Fluorescence Tracking of Highly Uniform PolyN-isopropylacrylamide Microgels
Published on: September 8, 2016
Study on the diffusion coefficients for ammonia nitrogen and nitrite and nitrate in PVA gels
1College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, 100 Ping Le Yuan, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100124, China E-mail: yhong@bjut.edu.cn; 1028892910@qq.com.
Abstract:
In order to quantify the proliferation of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) gels in a matrix and optimize the performance of mass transfer, activated carbon (AC) and CaCO3 were selected as adding materials in this experiment. For the performance of mass transfer, the optimal conditions were analyzed using response surface method (RSM) considering the inter-correlated effects of the amount of AC and CaCO3. For RSM, 13 trials resulted in a partial cubic polynomial equation, which best predicted the amount of residual debris after homogenization. The results of the study show that the effective diffusion coefficient test device can analysis the diffusion rate nitrogen, nitrite and nitrate within the PVA gels quantitatively; adding appropriate amounts of AC and CaCO3 in the biological active filter can improve the performance of mass transfer effectively; the maximum effective diffusion coefficient of nitrogen and nitrite and nitrate in the packing were 1.3637 × 10-9 and 1.0850 × 10-9 and 1.0199 × 10-9 m2/s, respectively, at optimal addition amount.
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