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Nativio, A. (author), Jovanovic, O. (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author), Kapelan, Z. (author)The concept of circular economy, aiming at increasing the sustainability of products and services in the water and other sectors, is gaining momentum worldwide. Driven by this concept, novel bio-composite materials produced by recovering resources from different parts of the water cycle are now manufactured in The Netherlands. The new materials...journal article 2024
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Cimen, Cansu (author), Bathoorn, Erik (author), Loeve, A.J. (author), Fliss, Monika (author), Berends, Matthijs S. (author), Nagengast, Wouter B. (author), Hamprecht, Axel (author), Voss, Andreas (author), Lokate, Mariëtte (author)Contamination of duodenoscopes is a significant concern due to the transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) among patients who undergo endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), resulting in outbreaks worldwide. In July 2020, it was determined that three different patients, all had undergone ERCP with the same...journal article 2024
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Moradi, N. (author), Vazquez, Carlos Lopez (author), Hernandez, Hector Garcia (author), Brdjanovic, Damir (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Rincón, Francisco Rubio (author)Digestate is a rich source of nutrients that can be applied in agricultural fields as fertilizer or irrigation water. However, most of the research about application of digestate have focused on its agronomic properties and neglected the potential harm of the presence of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs). Aadvanced oxidation processes ...journal article 2023
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Jonker, Lotte (author), Linde, Kimberly J. (author), de Boer, Annemarijn R. (author), Ding, Er (author), Zhang, D. (author), de Hoog, M.L.A. (author), Herfst, Sander (author), Heederik, Dick (author), Bluyssen, P.M. (author)Introduction: Our aim was to gain insight into the effect of COVID-19 measures on SARS-CoV-2 incidence in secondary schools and the association with classroom CO <sub>2</sub> concentration and airborne contamination. Methods: Between October 2020—June 2021, 18 schools weekly reported SARS-CoV-2 incidence and completed surveys on school...journal article 2023
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Ghosh, D. (author), Kavil, Sarath Pullyottum (author), Arya, Prakash C. (author), Das, Bhaskar (author)Enormous water-logging in ancient abandoned mining shafts of Kolar Gold Fields (KGFs), has largely induced the leaching of sulfide-rich gold minerals contaminating the aquifer system with hazardous elements. Transport of these contaminant has posed threat to the health of the urban population of Kolar township. A detailed survey of borewells,...journal article 2023
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Kumar, Arun (author), Kumar, Kanhaiya (author), Ali, Mohammad (author), Raj, Vivek (author), Srivastava, Abhinav (author), Kumar, Manishankar (author), Niraj, Pintoo Kumar (author), Kumar, Mukesh (author), Kumar, S. (author)The present study was carried out in the village Kaliprasad of Bhagalpur district of Bihar to know the arsenic exposure effect in the exposed population. A total of n = 102 households were studied, and their water and biological samples such as urine and hair were collected and analyzed in a graphite furnace atomic absorption...journal article 2023
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Trapp, S. (author), Lammers, Tom (author), Engudar, Gokce (author), Hoehr, Cornelia (author), Denkova, A.G. (author), Paulssen, E. (author), de Kruijff, R.M. (author)Background: The radionuclide Ga-68 is commonly used in nuclear medicine, specifically in positron emission tomography (PET). Recently, the interest in producing Ga-68 by cyclotron irradiation of [<sup>68</sup>Zn]Zn nitrate liquid targets is increasing. However, current purification methods of Ga-68 from the target solution consist of multi...journal article 2023
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Hartmann, J. (author)“Access to safe drinking water is a fundamental human need and, therefore, a basic human right. Contaminated water jeopardizes both the physical and social health of all people”: such is the importance of safe drinking water, as stated by Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, on World Water Day 2001. While some countries...doctoral thesis 2022
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Eisfeld, R.C.M. (author), Schijven, Jack F. (author), van der Wolf, Jan M. (author), Medema, G.J. (author), Kruisdijk, E. (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author)Irrigation with surface water carrying plant pathogens poses a risk for agriculture. Managed aquifer recharge enhances fresh water availability while simultaneously it may reduce the risk of plant diseases by removal of pathogens during aquifer passage. We compared the transport of three plant pathogenic bacteria with Escherichia coli WR1 as...journal article 2022
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Wallner, T.S. (author), Magnier, L.B.M. (author), Mugge, R. (author)Refurbishment is an effective strategy to extend product lifetimes in a circular economy. However, consumers believe that refurbished products are contaminated with traces of prior use, which can be indicated by the appearance (e.g., scratches) or functionality (e.g., lower battery capacity) of refurbished products. This research explores...journal article 2022
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Boerstra, A.C. (author), Verlinde, Mark (author)The Dutch government (specifically the ‘Rijksrederij’, the governmental shipping company) owns a fleet of just under 100 ships that are equipped to service the internal waterways and parts of the North Sea. Think in this context of e.g. Coast Guard ships, ships that help to fight oil accidents or ships that maintain buoys. Just after the COVID...conference paper 2022
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Wallner, T.S. (author), Magnier, L.B.M. (author), Mugge, R. (author)Refurbishment is a strategy to extend products’ lifetimes. However, refurbished products that are used intimately, such as personal care products, feel uncomfortable to use for consumers because they are perceived to be contaminated. In fifteen in-depth interviews, we explored why consumers have contamination concerns regarding a refurbished...conference paper 2022
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Kruisdijk, E. (author), Zietzschmann, F.E. (author), Stuyfzand, Pieter Jan (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author)A field injection experiment was performed in an anoxic sandy aquifer over 6 days to assess sorption characteristics of 7 commonly applied pesticides in agriculture and 2 frequently detected metabolites. Pesticide use changed considerably in the last decades, and there is insufficient knowledge of the fate of currently used pesticides in...journal article 2022
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Illathukandy, Biju (author), Saadabadi, S.A. (author), Kuo, P.C. (author), Wasajja, H. (author), Lindeboom, R.E.F. (author), Vijay, V. (author), Aravind, P.V. (author)This study is particularly aimed at investigating the influence of hydrogen chloride traces in biogas on direct internal reforming in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). The experiments are performed with simulated biogas containing methane to carbon dioxide ratio of 3:2, the usual average proportion in biogas. To the best of our knowledge, there...journal article 2022
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Ji, Yiran (author), Zheng, Feifei (author), Du, Jiawen (author), Huang, Yuan (author), Bi, Weiwei (author), Duan, Huan Feng (author), Savic, Dragan (author), Kapelan, Z. (author)Most of the contamination source localization methods for water distribution systems (WDSs) assume the availability of accurate water quality models and multi-parameter online sensors, which are often out of reach of many water utilities. To address this, a novel manual grab-sampling method (MGSM) is developed to effectively and efficiently...journal article 2022
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Wallner, T.S. (author), Snel, S. (author), Magnier, L.B.M. (author), Mugge, R. (author)Refurbishment is an effective circular strategy to lengthen a product’s lifetime. However, refurbished products that are intimately used, such as personal care products, cause a feeling of unease in consumers because they are perceived to be contaminated. In 15 in-depth online interviews with female users of intense pulsed light (IPL) device...journal article 2022
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Pryce, David (author), Alsharrah, Fatemah (author), Khalil, Ahmed M.E. (author), Kapelan, Z. (author), Memon, Fayyaz A. (author)Emerging contaminants (ECs) continue to threaten our fragile ecosystem, yet their mitigation remains limited by economic factors. Meanwhile, a relatively expensive material, Graphene Oxide (GO), has shown promise as a solution for EC removal following further development into three graphene-based materials (GBMs): Porous graphene adsorbent ...journal article 2022
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- Zhang, Yongjun (author), Hu, Jiangyong (author), Nomngongo, Philiswa Nosizo (author), Wang, Qilin (author), Spanjers, H. (author) contribution to periodical 2022
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Nedeljković, Marija (author), Visser, Jeanette (author), Nijland, Timo G. (author), Valcke, Siska (author), Schlangen, Erik (author)In the Netherlands, beside cement replacement with more green cement types, there is also an urgent need for alternative materials for natural sand in new concrete in order to make it circular. Furthermore, the recyclers have raised questions regarding upscaling and the potential of fine recycled concrete aggregates (fRCA) in structural concrete...conference paper 2021
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Yin, Jiapeng (author), Schleiss, M.A. (author), Wang, Xuesong (author)The use of spectral polarimetric filters in the range-Doppler domain shows great promise for clutter mitigation in weather radar applications. One limitation of these filters is that they cannot deal with situations in which ground clutter and precipitation overlap. In this letter, we propose a new signal recovery technique based on kriging in...journal article 2021