Flocculation is a key process for controlling the fate and transport of suspended particulate
matter (SPM) in water environments and has received considerable attention in the field of …

Transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) as gel-like particulate acidic polysaccharide have
been commonly found in marine, surface water and wastewater. Currently, increasing …

Plastic debris are resistant to degradation, and therefore tend to accumulate in marine
environment. Nevertheless recent estimations of plastic concentrations at the surface of the …

The partitioning of organic matter (OM) between dissolved and particulate phases is an
important factor in determining the fate of organic carbon in the ocean. Dissolved organic …

Despite more than a decade of worldwide research on membrane fouling in membrane
bioreactors (MBRs), many questions still remain unanswered. In the light of the complexity of …

During the Deepwater Horizon oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, the application of 7
million liters of chemical dispersants aimed to stimulate microbial crude oil degradation by …

Since the development of methods to quantify transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) 1993,
it has been shown that these gel-particles are not only ubiquitous and abundant, but also …

Northern cod, comprising populations of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) off southern Labrador
and eastern Newfoundland, supported major fisheries for hundreds of years. But in the late …

Abstract Transparent Exopolymer Particles (TEP) have received considerable attention
since they were first described in the ocean more than 20 years ago. This is because of their …

Algal blooms can seriously affect the operation of water treatment processes including low
pressure (micro-and ultra-filtration) and high pressure (nanofiltration and reverse osmosis) …