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biofiltration
Environment; Pollution
"Biofiltration is a pollution control technique using living material to capture and biologically degrade process pollutants. Common uses include processing waste water, capturing harmful ...
diffuser
Environment; Pollution
"(In various machines or mechanical systems, as centrifugal pumps or compressors) a device for utilizing part of the kinetic energy of a fluid passing through a machine by gradually increasing ...
mixing zone
Environment; Pollution
"A mixing zone is the region in which the initial dilution of a discharge occurs. Many hydrodynamic definitions of mixing zones include both near-field mixing as well as boundary interactions ...
moisture content
Environment; Pollution
"Water content or moisture content is the quantity of water contained in a material, such as soil (called soil moisture), rock, ceramics, fruit, or wood."
odor detection threshold
Environment; Pollution
"The odor detection threshold is the lowest concentration of a certain odor compound that is perceivable by the human sense of smell."
mixed medium filtration
Environment; Pollution
"A system using two or more dissimilar granular materials (such as anthracite, sand and garnet) blended by size and density. Such a filter is graded from coarse to fine in the direction of ...
microbial metabolism
Environment; Pollution
"Microbial metabolism is the means by which a microbe obtains the energy and nutrients (e.g. carbon) it needs to live and reproduce."
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