Accurate assessment of the type and extent of water pollution is a difficult and complicated task. Therefore, the use of the Water Quality Index (WQI) proves to be a useful tool, as this index has the advantage of resulting in a single number that is easy to communicate and understand. One of the statistical methods that can be used to develop a new WQI equation for a given water body is Multiple Linear Regression (MLR). Therefore, this work aims to develop a new WQI equation for Mirim Lagoon through MLR and to evaluate the suitability of that equation. For this, 154 samples collected at 7 monitoring points of Mirim Lagoon over three years were analyzed, from which the original WQI results were obtained. With these results, MLR was applied, generating a new WQI equation with only three variables: phosphorus, dissolved oxygen (DO) and thermotolerant coliforms. This MLR model obtained an R2 coefficient equal to 0.728, demonstrating that 72.8% of the data variability was explained by the equation generated by this model. Through the paired t test it was possible to demonstrate that the results of the new WQI did not differ significantly from the results of the original WQI, obtaining significance values greater than 0.05 for both absolute WQI values and quality ranges (p value 0.886 and 0.467, respectively), attesting to the adequacy of the new equation. The reduction in the number of variables for monitoring water quality has several advantages, from financial ones, as it makes monitoring less costly, even in reducing the eclipse effect. Therefore, it is concluded that it is of great importance to generate an equation with fewer variables for monitoring the quality of the waters of Mirim Lagoon.
A urgência de inovação na matriz energética brasileira, aliada à alta geração de resíduos e efluentes agroindustriais do cenário nacional, impulsiona o uso da técnica de digestão anaeróbia como tecnologia promissora para tratamento de tais passivos ambientais e produção de biogás. A codigestão anaeróbia, digestão simultânea de dois ou mais substratos, permite vantagens operacionais e melhores condições do meio para as bactérias responsáveis pela produção do biocombustível. Desse modo, o objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o potencial de produção de biogás através da codigestão de efluente (substrato) e lodo (inóculo) do Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket da Estação de Tratamento de Efluentes de uma indústria de arroz parboilizado do Sul do Brasil com dois diferentes resíduos sólidos orgânicos (cosubstrato), casca de laranja e de banana, separadamente. Um arranjo fatorial 2³ foi realizado utilizando casca de laranja como cosubstrato e outro utilizando casca de banana. Os digestores utilizados no estudo foram desenvolvidos a partir da reutilização de garrafas de Polietileno Tereftalato e operados por 168 horas à 35°C. A quantificação de biogás foi realizada através do princípio de deslocamento de fluídos. A maior produção de biogás semelhante em ambos os arranjos fatoriais se deu com 40% de efluente, 20% da solução de resíduo sólido e 30% de lodo, 8,49E-03m³ produzidos quando utilizado casca de banana e 1,17E-02m³ com casca de laranja, com remoções de DQO de 4686,87mgL-1 e 6809,92mgL-1, respectivamente.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.