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This experiment provides data support for the risk of wastewater leakage of medical and pharmaceutical wastewater into domestic sewage, and will helps to maintain the safe operation of actual sewage pipes.Copper smelting slags are difficult to achieve harmlessness and reduction because of the presence of abundant of fayalite (Fe2SiO4). This work proposed a novel strategy for harmlessness and reduction of copper smelting slags by alkali disaggregation of Fe2SiO4 coupling with acid leaching. The disaggregation changed the Fe2SiO4 phase by NaOH and released the embedded harmful and valuable metals. The evaluation of disaggregation effect mainly depends on further acid treatment. Especially the total leaching efficiency of As, Zn, Fe, Cu and Pb was achieved 99.7%, 62.5%, 41.5%, 99.9% and 99.1% under diluted HNO3-H2O2 system, respectively. Compared with the non-disaggregated control, the efficiency was accordingly increased by 73.3%, 71.1%, 18.6%, 72.2% and 22.4%. Meanwhile, the content of As, Cu and Pb in the slags decreased from 1165.5 mg/kg, 30085.9 mg/kg and 5008.8 mg/kg to as low as 5.2 mg/kg, 21.2 mg/kg and 15.6 mg/kg, respectively. Interestingly, the strategy brought out 48.1% of the weight reduction of the copper smelting slags. The favorable effect was mainly attributed to the broken of Fe-O-Si bond thereafter improving the acid leaching activation. Therefore, the proposed strategy could potentially be a new method to realize harmlessness and reduction of copper smelting slags.Focusing on the treatment of pharmaceuticals contaminated water by advanced oxidation processes, a novel three dimensional silicate glass matrix (3-DG) coupled Cu2O/Cu2V2O7 p-n heterojunction was constructed by in-situ hydrothermal technique. The optimal Cu2O/Cu2V2O7 with 30 wt % Cu2V2O7 (CV-30) degrades 90.1 % sulfamethoxazole (SMX) in 60 min and nearly 100 % removal in 45 min via coupling with 3-DG. Under natural sunlight ∼ 80 % SMX removal was observed. The internal electric field of the p-n junction facilitates the electron flow via the interface. 3-D silicate glass increases the visible light absorption dramatically via internal reflection which facilitates higher exposure for the junction and shortens the diffusion length of charge carriers. The effect of reaction parameters suggests that HCO3- and CO32- ions substantially escalate the SMX removal rate. Scavenging experiments and ESR probe suggest O2- as the main active species followed by OH radicals. The degradation products were detected by LC-MS analysis and a degradation mechanism was also predicted. The photocatalytic mechanism was explained in terms of the electron transfer facilitated by conventional transfer and Z-scheme. This strategy to construct such highly visible and solar active p-n heterojunctions will pave way for future opportunities for the degradation of recalcitrant pharmaceutical pollutants.In this work, the VUV, VUV/H2O2, VUV/PMS, and VUV/H2O2/PMS processes were compared with the corresponding UVC-based AOPs under identical experimental conditions for the ammonia removal. Among the examined AOPs, the VUV/H2O2/PMS demonstrated the highest performance in converting NH4+ to N2. A 82.7 % removal of 100 mg/L NH4+, with N2 selectivity over 99 % was obtained in the VUV/H2O2/PMS process within 60 min, operated under near neutral pH. click here Under these operation conditions, [NO3-] was around 0.5 mg-N/L with [NO2-] remaining below detection. The VUV-mediated generation of SO4•-and HO• with NH4+ had a relative contribution of 37.9 and 62.1 %, respectively. The VUV/H2O2/PMS process operated under a flow-through mode achieved efficient removal of 100 mg/L NH4+ (80.5 %) in a hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 40 min. The continuous-flow VUV/H2O2/PMS process efficiently treated a real ammonia-laden groundwater and the concentration of NH4+ decreased from 30 mg/L to around 1 mg/L within 60 min HRT. In summary, the VUV/H2O2/PMS process was effective from the technical and energetical point of view, hence is a viable and promising technique for treating effluent containing high concentrations of ammonia.Ruthenium coordination compounds have demonstrated a promising anticancer and antibacterial activity, but their poor water solubility and low stability under physiological conditions may limit their therapeutic applications. Physical encapsulation or covalent conjugation with polymers may overcome these drawbacks, but generally involve multistep reactions and purification processes. In this work, the antibacterial activity of the polymeric precursor dicarbonyldichlororuthenium (II) [Ru(CO)2Cl2]n has been studied against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. This Ru-carbonyl precursor shows minimum inhibitory concentration at nanogram per millilitre, which renders it a novel antimicrobial polymer without any organic ligands. Besides, [Ru(CO)2Cl2]n antimicrobial activity is markedly boosted under photoirradiation, which can be ascribed to the enhanced generation of reactive oxygen species under UV irradiation. [Ru(CO)2Cl2]n has been able to inhibit bacterial growth via the disruption of bacterial membranes and triggering upregulation of stress responses as shown in microscopic measurements. The activity of polymeric ruthenium as an antibacterial material is significant even at 6.6 ng/mL while remaining biocompatible to the mammalian cells at much higher concentrations. This study proves that this simple precursor, [Ru(CO)2Cl2]n, can be used as an antimicrobial compound with high activity and a low toxicity profile in the context of need for new antimicrobial agents to fight bacterial infections.Excessive use of organophosphorus pesticides such as pyridaphenthion (PY) to constrain insects induced crop loss, results in soil and water sources contamination. Cyanobacteria are sensitive biological indicators and promising tools for bioremediation of soil and water pollutants. To understand PY toxicity, detoxification and degradation in cyanobacteria, we performed a comparative study in the two diazotrophic cyanobacteria; Anabaena laxa and Nostoc muscorum. They were exposed to mild (5 mg/L) and high (10 mg/L) concentrations of PY for 7 days. Compared to A. laxa, N. muscorum efficiently showed high PY accumulation and degradation to a safe environmentally product; 6-hydroxy-2-phenylpyridazin-3(2 H)-one. PY inhibited cell growth and reduced Chl a content and photosynthesis related enzymes (PEPC and RuBisCo) activities in both species, but to less extend in N. muscorum. It also induced oxidative damage, particularly in A. laxa, as indicated by high H2O2, lipid peroxidation and protein oxidation levels and increased NADPH oxidase enzyme activity.