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CALENDAR
Events Calendar
1922 January 2003
Source Water Protection
Symposium
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Contact: American Water Works
Association
6666 W. Quincy Avenne
Denver, CO 80235, USA
Tel: +1 303 794 7711
Fax: +1 303 794 3951
Web: www.awwa.org
25 February 2003
Environment and Energy
2003 Conference and
Exhibition
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Contact: Christine Chapman,
Exhibition Sales Manager
PennWell Corp, PennWell House,
Horseshoe Hill, Upshire,
Essex EN9 3SR, UK
Tel: +44 1992 656 631
Fax: +44 1992 656 704
Email: cchapman@pennwell.com
46 March 2003
Water & Wastewater Europe
Nice, France
Contact: Koula Karayianni
Exhibition Sales Manager
PennWell Corp, PennWell House,
Research
Trends
Removal of Cr(VI) from aqueous
solutions
Transport through polymer inclusion membranes
(PIMs) was found as the effective and selective
method of Cr(VI) anions removal from chloride
acidic aqueous solutions. The optimal PIMs content was as follows: 41 wt% of cellulose triacetate as
the support, 23 wt% of tri-n-octylamine as the
ionic carrier, and 36 wt% of o-nitrophenyl pentyl
ether as the plasticizer. The results obtained show a
linear decrease of permeability coefficient and initial flux values with source phase pH increase. Also,
a linear decrease of initial flux in loglog scale with
an increase in Cr(VI) concentration was observed.
The value of slope of this relationship was found to
be 0.96, which indicates a first order of Cr(VI)
reaction with tri-n-octylamine at membrane/aqueous source interface. Transport of Cr(VI) through
PIMs reduces the concentration of Cr(VI) in
source aqueous phase from 1.0 to 0.0028 ppm,
which is below the permissible limit in drinking
water in Poland. Competitive transport of Cr(VI),
Cd(II), Zn(II) and Fe(III) from acidic aqueous
solution across PIMs was found to be efficient for
Cr(VI) (99%) and Cd(II) (99%).
C.A. Kozlowski, W. Walkowiak: Water Research
36(19) 48704876 (November 2002).
(IWTC-VII)
Egypt
Contact: Prof. Magdy Abou Rayan
Conference Secretary General,
Mansoura University, Faculty of
Engineering, El-Mansoura 35516, Egypt
Tel/Fax: +20 (3) 5920641
Email: mrayan@usa.com
Web: www.maxpages.com/iwtcivgypt
9 April 2003
4th International Conference
on Membrane Bioreactors
(MBR 4)
Cranfield, UK
Contact: The Short Course Office,
Cranfield University
Tel: +44 1234 754176
48 May 2003
Desalination and the
Environment: Fresh Water
for All
St Julians, Malta
Contact: Miriam Balaban
European Desalination Society, Science
and Technology Park of Abruzzo, Via
Antica Arischia 1, 67100 LAquila,
Italy
Tel: +39 0862 3475 308
Fax: +39 0862 3475 213
Email: miriam.balaban@aquila.infn.it
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