LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries are among the earliest commercialized and most discarded lithium-ion batteries. Although existing recovery technologies focus on the conversion of LiFePO4 to Li2CO3, challenges associated with achieving near-full recovery and...
Chlorine dioxide is a globally recognized green and efficient disinfectant. This study aims to investigate the bactericidal mechanism of chlorine dioxide using beta-hemolytic Streptococcus (BHS) CMCC 32210 as a representative strain. BHS was exposed...
In this work, first-principle calculations based on density functional theory are employed to investigate how chlorine doping influences the elastic moduli, ductility, and lattice thermal conductivity of Bi2O2Se, aiming to explore an effective method...
The influence of chlorinated water on the global and local aging behavior of polypropylene (PP) was investigated for three differently stabilized PP grades consisting of the same PP base polymer. While one of the PP grades contained only a processing...
This study investigates chlorine-induced aging of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) through a 3 × 3 factorial matrix combining three temperatures (20, 40, 60 °C) and three chlorine concentrations (5, 10, 20 ppm) over 45 days. Tensile tests r...
Ensuring safe drinking water is a global priority, with pathogen control being an essential aspect. Chlorine disinfection is widely adopted for its affordability and potent antimicrobial effects. However, certain bacteria, known as chlorine-resistant...
This study investigated how chlorine inactivates and damages Escherichia coli cells. E. coli that had transformed to express enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) at the cytoplasm was treated with chlorine. Damage to the cell membrane and cell wa...
Chlorinated polyvinyl chloride (CPVC), as a new type of engineering plastic waste, has been used widely due to its good heat resistance, mechanical properties and corrosion resistance, while it has become an important part of solid waste. The pyrolys...
Meta-aramid fibrids (MAF) have attracted much attention. However, it is difficult for this high mechanical performance fiber to form sufficient interface adhesion between the MAF and polyurethane (PU) matrix due to the chemical inertness of its surfa...
Polypropylene random copolymers (PP-R) are common materials for pressurized hot water pipes. In many pipe systems, potable water is disinfected by chlorine to prevent waterborne diseases. This paper deals with hot chlorinated water induced aging of t...
Chemical agents including chlorine and antibiotics are used extensively to control infectious microorganisms. While antibiotics are mainly used to treat bacterial infections, chlorine is widely used for microbial inactivation in the post-secondary di...
In agricultural production, pesticides play an important role in increasing crop yields. However, pesticide residues are caused by improper handling by users during the production process. Chlorine dioxide and ozone, as strong oxidants with similarit...
Chlorinated ethenes are prevalent groundwater contaminants. To better constrain (bio)chemical reaction mechanisms of reductive dechlorination, the position-specificity of reductive trichloroethene (TCE) dehalogenation was investigated. Selective biot...
Developing economical and robust catalysts for the highly selective and stable destruction of chlorinated volatile organic compounds (CVOCs) is a great challenge. Here, hollow nanosphere-like VOx/CeO2 catalysts with different V/Ce molar ratios were f...
The chlorinated polyvinyl chloride (CPVC)/acrylonitrile–butadiene–styrene (ABS) composite represents an important class of engineering thermoplastics, offering a strong balance of flame retardancy, chemical resistance, mechanical properti...
Chlorination is a widely used process for disinfecting drinking water, but the emergence of chlorine-resistant bacteria has become a significant concern. While previous research has focused on identifying chlorine-resistant organisms, there has been...
The catalytic mechanism of the Zn(II)-dependent chlorothalonil dehalogenase from Pseudomonas sp. CTN-3 (Chd) was examined using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, Bayesian network analysis, and Markov state model analysis to quantify its motions. C...
Keeping an effective disinfectant residual concentration in reclaimed water is still a challenge, due to its high levels of ammonia and organic matter when compared with those in drinking water. This research proposes the integration of the reaction...
Sonochlorination (US/chlorine) is an emerging sonohybrid advanced oxidation process whose performance reportedly surpasses that of its individual components. However, the underlying oxidant budget is still being debated. We mapped the mechanism by sy...
Chlorinated hydrocarbons are typical organic pollutants in contaminated sites, and microbial remediation technology has attracted more and more attention. To study the structural characteristics and assembly mechanism of the archaeal community in chl...
The UV/chlorine process, as a new type of AOP (Advanced Oxidation Process), was utilized to treat amlodipine (AML)-containing water. The influencing factors, including chlorine dose, UV intensity, solution initial pH value, and ammonia concentration,...
The molten salt chlorination method is one of the two main methods for producing titanium tetrachloride, an important intermediate product in the titanium industry. To effectively improve chlorination efficiency and reduce unnecessary waste salt gene...
Vanadium slag is an important resource containing valuable elements such as Fe, V, Ti, and so on. A novel selective chlorination method for extracting these valuable elements from vanadium slag has been proposed recently. The proposed methods could r...
Rigid PVC plastics (R-PVC) contain large amounts of chlorine, and improper disposal can adversely affect the environment. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of sufficient studies on hydrothermal treatment (HTT) for the efficient dechlorination of R-...
Electro-chlorination (E-Cl) is an emerging and promising electrochemical advanced oxidation technology for wastewater treatment with the advantages of high efficiency, deep mineralization, a green process, and easy operation. It was found that the me...
With the development of the chemical industry, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX) have gradually become the major indoor air pollutants. Various gas treatment techniques are widely used to prevent the physical and mental health hazards...
Manufacturing aircraft components through 3D printing has become a widespread concept with proven applicability for serial production of certain structural parts. The main objective of the research study is to determine whether a chlorinated polyethy...
The damping performance of chlorinated butyl rubber (CIIR) is exceptional; however, its poor processability during vulcanization can lead to numerous defects. Natural rubber (NR) and ethylene propylene diene monomer rubber (EPDM) were selected to ble...
Exceptionally high chlorine contents (up to 1.57%) occur in the Middle Jurassic coal seams of the Sha’erhu area, Turpan–Hami Basin, Northwest China, making this coalfield one of the most Cl-enriched coal occurrences reported in China. How...
The use of tunnel kiln firing in clay brick production offers a promising approach for disposing of Cl-containing solid waste, with lower chlorine (Cl) and heavy metal volatilization compared to cement kiln processes. However, the effects of Cl salts...
We carried out molecular orbital theory calculations for the homogeneous gas‑phase formation of dibenzofuran from phenanthrene, fluorene, 9-methylfluorene and 9-fluorenone. Dibenzofuran will be formed if ∙OH adds to C8a, and the order of reactivity...
Chlorine-incorporating ultraviolet (UV) provides a multiple barrier for drinking water disinfection. Meanwhile, post-UV employment can promote the degradation of micropollutants by radical production from chlorine residual photolysis. This work studi...
To assess the potential use of polyamide (PA) for solar-thermal systems applications, the effect of water with varying chlorine content on the fatigue crack growth (FCG) resistance of two PA formulations differing in their stabilizer packages was inv...
In order to enhance the corrosion resistance of concrete to chloride salt, 5% NaCl solution was used to corrode ordinary concrete (OC) and rubber concrete (RC) with 5%, 10%, and 15% rubber content, respectively. By testing the compressive strength, m...
Herein, a new geopolymer is recognized as a potential alternative cementing material of ordinary Portland cement (OPC), which is used for reducing carbon emissions and efficiently recycling the waste. Therefore this paper mainly studied the alkali-ac...
Quinoline is a typical nitrogenous heterocyclic compound, which is carcinogenic, teratogenic, and mutagenic to organisms, and its wastewater is difficult to biodegrade directly. The bipolar electro-Fenton process was employed to treat quinoline solut...
Supported nickel catalysts represent a class of important catalytic materials in selective hydrogenations, but applications are frequently limited by metal agglomeration or active-site blocking induced by the presence of hydrogen halides. Herein, we...
Short-chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs) were defined as persistent organic pollutants in 2017, and they can migrate and transform in the environment, accumulate in organisms, and amplify through the food chain. Although they pose a serious threat t...
Salmonella Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) can adapt to sublethal sodium hypochlorite conditions, which subsequently triggers stress resistance mechanisms in this pathogen. Hence, the current work aimed to reveal the underlying stress adaptation mechani...
This work investigated the influence of the catalytic support precursor on the activity of nickel catalysts 20%Ni/5%La2O3–95%Al2O3 in the mixed methane reforming process. The activity tests were carried out at a temperature of 750 °C. The r...
Cement-based materials used in China’s coastal and salt lake areas in the northwest are exposed to long-term chloride corrosion, which deteriorates the materials and substantially reduces the durability of the structures. This study investigate...
The aim of this study was to elucidate all the degradation byproducts (DBPs) of bemotrizinol (BEMT) that are associated with sodium hypochlorite treatment. BEMT is a UV filter that is found not only in many personal care products, such as sunscreen a...
This study investigated the degradation kinetics and product generation of ofloxacin (OFL) in the pipe network under different pipe materials, flow rate, pH, free chlorine concentration and temperature. The experiments done in the beaker and pipe net...
Free chlorination is a widely employed disinfection method in humanitarian water provision due to its many advantages. However, its effective application is hindered by the challenge in determining adequate initial doses to achieve free chlorine resi...
Hypochlorous acid (HOCl) produced by neutrophils is a part of the natural innate immune response system in the human body, but excessive levels of HOCl can ultimately be detrimental to health. Recent reports suggest that betacyanin plant pigments can...
Addressing the issue that the Bayer process is not suitable for low-grade bauxite, carbochlorination was proposed to recover aluminum and silicon from low-grade bauxite. This study focused on the behavior of aluminum and silicon during the carbochlor...
The nonstandard use of disinfectants can lead to the disinfectant resistance of bacteria and even increase antibiotic resistance. However, compared with the study of antibiotic resistance, studies of bacterial resistance to disinfectants are relative...
UV/chlorine treatment is an efficient technology for removing organic pollutants in wastewater. Nevertheless, degradation of antihistamines in the UV/chlorine system, especially the underlying reaction mechanism, is not yet clear. In this study, the...
Stormwater pollution from residual chlorine after outdoor disinfection with sodium hypochlorite is an increasing environmental challenge due to its potential negative impact on aquatic ecosystems. Even at low concentrations, residual chlorine can dis...
In this article, we present results concerning the impact of structural and chemical properties of zinc oxide in various morphological forms and its gas-sensitive properties, tested in an atmosphere containing a very aggressive gas such as chlorine....
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