Turbidity general discussion

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This chapter applies the techniques of the unit process of coagulation to the treatment of water and wastewater for the removal of colloids that cause turbidity and color. It also discusses prerequisite topics necessary for the understanding of coagulation such as the behavior of colloids, zeta potential, and colloid stability. It then treats the coagulation process, in general, and the unit process of the use of alum and the iron salts, in particular. It also discusses chemical requirements and sludge production. 

Two general regimes of turbid media need to be considered, namely, those of low and high absorption. In the ca.se of dense solutions of particles with low absorption, multiple scattering occurs but considerable progress has been made in recent years. We shall discuss the high-absorption case in the next section. 

The characterisation of a stimulus responsive surface in general includes two aspects verification of the surface composition and evaluation of the materials response due to the presence of the stimulus. Although a variety of techifiques are available to characterise peptides and their stimulus-responsive properties in solution and in bulk, many of these are not compatible with surface-immobilised peptides. Hence, a common approach is to characterise the peptide material in solntion before attachment to the surface. UV-based turbidity measurements (Lee et al., 2(X)9 Nath Chilkoti, 2003 Teeuwen et al., 2009) and calorimetry (Barbosa et al., 2009) are used to determine the LCST of ELPs. The isomerisation of azobenzene can be studied with UV absorption, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and high-performance Uqnid chromatography (Anemheimer et al., 2005 Hayashi et al., 2007), and CD is nsed to determine the presence of helices in a peptide (Minelli et al., 2013 Yasntomi et al., 2005). Non-solution-based methods that can be used to characterise responsive peptide surfaces will be discussed in more detail below. 

The environmental impact of a dredging and land reclamation project has been discussed in a general matter only in this Manual. Issues involved are fines content of discharge water, turbidity around the dredger, noise generation, impact on fauna and flora. For more information, reference is made to specialized literature such as Bray 2008, Environmental aspects of dredging. 

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