A treatment device for treating a mixture of at least a liquid, organic solids and inorganic, mineral solids, includes a container for receiving the mixture. The container tapers in a funnel shape in a direction of a longitudinal axis of the container. An inlet tangentially supplies the mixture to the container. An outlet discharges the liquid essentially containing the organic solids from the container. A discharge apparatus serves for discharging the inorganic, mineral solids. The treatment device also includes a sleeve adapted to guide the mixture between an outer wall of the sleeve and an inner wall of the container and to guide the liquid containing the organic solids within an inner wall of the sleeve for discharge from the outlet.

An efficient photocatalyst nanocomposite comprising reduced graphene oxide, noble metal, and a metal oxide prepared by a one-step method that utilizes date seed extract as a reducing and nanoparticle determining size agent. The photocatalyst of the invention is a more effective sunlight photocatalyst than that prepared by traditional method in the photo decomposition of organic compounds in contaminated water.

A diffusiophoretic water filtration system is provided, including a diffusiophoretic water filter; and a particle disperser upstream of the diffusiophoretic water filter. Methods are also provided.

A surface-modified bio-adsorbent including Ziziphus Mauritiana biomass particles and TiO.sub.2 nanoparticles anchored on a surface of the Ziziphus Mauritiana biomass particles. The bio-adsorbent can be in powder form and the Ziziphus Mauritiana biomass particles can have a particle size ranging from about 25 ?m to about 250 ?m.

The application belongs to the technical field of water treatment, and relates to a biofilm electrochemical reactor for simultaneously removing nitrate nitrogen and trace organic matters in water. According to the principles of electrochemical reaction and products completely different under different cathode and anode material conditions, the reactor is divided into three functional regions, wherein first, an electrochemical reaction of producing hydrogen at a cathode and decomposing carbon at an anode is realized in a first functional region so as to provide a condition for reduction of nitrate nitrogen by a hydrogen autotrophic denitrifying bacteria of a particle electrode layer in a second functional region, after products generated by means of the electrochemical reaction and a biochemical reaction in the previous two functional regions enter a third functional region, pollutants such as trace organic components and residual ammonia nitrogen in water are oxidized and decomposed by using anodic oxidation function.

An efficient photocatalyst nanocomposite comprising reduced graphene oxide, noble metal, and a metal oxide prepared by a one-step method that utilizes date seed extract as a reducing and nanoparticle determining size agent. The photocatalyst of the invention is a more effective sunlight photocatalyst than that prepared by traditional method in the photo decomposition of organic compounds in contaminated water.

A water purification electrode composed of a porous carbon material is disclosed. The electrode may be used as a flow-through cathode in an electro-peroxone process providing high H.sub.2O.sub.2 production activity for electrochemical wastewater treatment. The porous carbon material is a binding agent-free carbon structure that enables H.sub.2O.sub.2 to be electro-generated in situ at cathode. The porous carbon material may be synthesized from resorcinol and can provide a relatively large reaction surface area of 200-800 m.sup.2/g. The porous carbon material also achieves low energy consumption as well as a wide pH working range, making it suitable for treating many types of organic, inorganic, and biological contaminants in water. The electrode may be integrated with an anode, ozone generator, and other components into a compact, integrated water purification system.

The present disclosure discloses a method and device for removing Organic Micropollutants (OMPs) in water, and belongs to the technical field of wastewater treatment. The method includes the following steps: S1: aerating residual sludge under a starvation condition to enrich starved-state microorganisms; and S2: treating wastewater containing OMPs under an aeration condition with sludge containing the starved-state microorganisms obtained in step S1, and periodically updating the sludge containing the starved-state microorganisms. According to the present disclosure, aerobic starvation treatment is performed on the sludge to gradually reduce the abundance of microorganisms that may use degradable organic matters only and enrich microorganisms that may use complex organic matters in the sludge, and the enriched sludge may degrade various OMPs and be used to remove OMPs in wastewater. The process is easy to operate and low in cost and has relatively high practical application value.

An efficient photocatalyst nanocomposite comprising reduced graphene oxide, noble metal, and a metal oxide prepared by a one-step method that utilizes date seed extract as a reducing and nanoparticle determining size agent. The photocatalyst of the invention is a more effective sunlight photocatalyst than that prepared by traditional method in the photo decomposition of organic compounds in contaminated water.

A method of making a lignocellulose incorporating methacrylate functionality from date palm biomass can include extracting sieved date palm biomass at a first predetermined temperature (110? C.) to obtain an extracted date palm biomass; adding an acid to the extracted date palm biomass to obtain a mixture and stirring and refluxing the mixture at a second predetermined temperature (100? C.) to obtain a refluxed cellulose-hemicellulose-lignin residue; dissolving the refluxed cellulose-hemicellulose-lignin residue in a solvent to obtain a solution; adding triethylamine and methacrylic anhydride to the solution to obtain a reaction solution mixture and stirring while heating the reaction solution mixture to react the triethylamine and the methacrylic anhydride with the solution to obtain a reacted solution mixture; pouring the reacted solution mixture into an ice-cold solvent to obtain a solution mixture and separating cellulose-hemicellulose-lignin residue from the solution mixture via centrifuging; dissolving centrifuged cellulose-lignin residue in water to obtain the lignocellulose incorporating methacrylate functionality.