Causal direct drivers of greenhouse gas emissions in 40,722 wastewater treatment plants in China [0.03%]
中国40,722座污水处理厂的温室气体排放的直接驱动因素及其因果关系分析
Boxuan Wang,Aliya Abulimiti,Jiale Liang et al.
Boxuan Wang et al.
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are essential for public health but are highly energy-intensive, accounting for approximately 1.6% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Developing cost-effective carbon mitigation strategies requires...
Oceanographic regime and foraging behaviour structure compound-specific PFAS variability in arctic-atlantic guillemots [0.03%]
海洋环流和觅食行为构建了北极-大西洋海鸠中PFAS的化合物特异性变化
Rui Shen,Ralf Ebinghaus,Daniel Giddings Vassão et al.
Rui Shen et al.
Current chemical exposures studies characterise chemical risk through mean-based concentrations, treating individual-level variability as statistical noise. However, this variability may carry structured ecological information that mean-bas...
Bohan Liu,Jun Nan,Rongcheng He et al.
Bohan Liu et al.
Eutrophication driven by excessive phosphorus discharge threatens global aquatic ecosystems. Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) is a sustainable, widely deployed wastewater treatment technology, yet it often requires optimization...
Enzyme-constrained genome-scale modeling resolves growth-production trade-offs in fermentative biohydrogen production [0.03%]
基于酶约束的基因组规模模型解析了发酵产生物氢中的生长-生产矛盾
Wei Xing,Jianfeng Liu,Bin Liu et al.
Wei Xing et al.
Hydrogen is central to sustainable energy systems, with biological production from waste offering a low-energy, environmentally compatible route. Anaerobic dark fermentation by microbes converts organic substrates into hydrogen, yet yields ...
Physics-guided networks for probabilistic hydrodynamic forecasting in canal systems [0.03%]
基于物理学的网络在运河系统中的概率水动力预报中应用
Wangjiayi Liu,Guanghua Guan,Xiaonan Chen et al.
Wangjiayi Liu et al.
Reliable prediction of water supply dynamics in large-scale canal systems is critical for water allocation and operational decision-making in inter-basin water transfer projects. Uncertainty in lateral offtake discharges evolves over time a...
Quorum sensing for carbon-neutral wastewater treatment: Mechanisms, challenges, technological pathways, and future prospects [0.03%]
碳中和污水资源化处理的群体感应机制、挑战及技术途径和未来前景展望
Wen-Qian Wang,Yong-Mei Wang,Xiao-Chi Feng et al.
Wen-Qian Wang et al.
Global climate targets demand a rapid transition to carbon neutrality across all industrial sectors, including wastewater management. Wastewater treatment plants are historically energy-intensive and remain significant sources of potent gre...
Plastic leachates drive conjugative transfer of antibiotic resistance genes [0.03%]
塑料添加剂可驱动抗生素抗性基因的水平转移现象发生频率提升
Yongsheng Chen,Kaiqiang Yu,Yuhong Sun et al.
Yongsheng Chen et al.
Plastic pollution pervades aquatic ecosystems worldwide, releasing leachates that interact intimately with microbial communities. Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) disseminate rapidly through horizontal gene transfer via plasmid conjugatio...
Electron transfer drives hydroxyl radical formation in peroxone reactions [0.03%]
电子转移驱动过氧化物反应中的羟基自由基形成
Yishi Wang,Wei Qiu,Yongbo Yu et al.
Yishi Wang et al.
Ozone is a powerful oxidant widely used in water treatment for the degradation of organic pollutants and removal of colour, odor, and pathogens. In aqueous solution, ozone decomposes to generate hydroxyl radicals through chain reactions tha...
Global data-water symbiosis reduces AI infrastructure's carbon and water footprint [0.03%]
全球数据水共生减少AI基础设施碳足迹与用水量
Aijie Wang,Congchao Zhang,Tiefu Xu et al.
Aijie Wang et al.
Data centres support artificial intelligence (AI) development but place rapidly increasing demands on electricity and freshwater resources, with cooling representing a significant portion of their total energy consumption. Wastewater treatm...
Phase-change photothermal foam enables continuous hypersaline brine desalination [0.03%]
相变光热泡沫用于连续反渗透浓水太阳能蒸发技术
Peilei Zhou,Feng Sun,Lishan Xu et al.
Peilei Zhou et al.
Seawater desalination is critical for mitigating global freshwater scarcity, yet the discharge of high-salinity brine causes severe ecological and economic issues. Solar-driven interfacial evaporation provides an energy-efficient method for...