Manure is used as a source of nutrients and organic matter for agricultural lands, but its unbalanced use has unfortunately made nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P) leakage to the environment quite common in Western Europe. One way to optimize the use of manure is variable rate (VR) application, wherein within field spatial variability of soil nutrien...
Published in Journal of chromatography. A
Volatile halogenated compounds (VHCs) are important industrial chemicals and play a crucial role in potential stratospheric ozone-depletion and global warming. Profiling of VHCs is of great significance but replete with challenges due to the species' richness and diversity. In this study, we developed a novel method employing water removal mode com...
The field of computer vision offers tools that allow machines to derive meaningful infor-mation from video and images and consequently make decisions based on visual inputs. In the paper industry, implementation of machine vision (MV) can be used to automate and speed up processes that require visual inspection, particularly certain segments of qua...
Published in Journal of hazardous materials
The temporal influence of reaction atmosphere and chlorine on arsenic release in combustion, gasification and pyrolysis of sawdust was studied using an on-line analysis system. The arsenic release amount in combustion atmosphere was higher than that in CO2 gasification and argon pyrolysis. The derived values of activation energy followed the order:...
It is well-documented in the visible and near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (VNIRS) studies that soil moisture content (SMC) negatively affects the prediction accuracy of soil attributes. This work was undertaken to remove the negative effect of SMC on the on-line prediction of soil organic carbon (SOC). A mobile VNIR spectrophotometer with a s...
Published in Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
A simple method for the simultaneous detection of stable and long-lived Mn, Ni, Co and Cu isotopes has been created by coupling an ion chromatographic system (IC) to an ICP-MS. The analytical procedure was tested with two chromatographic columns: a strong cation exchange and an anionic/cationic mixed bed. It was found that the best separation of th...
Published in Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
A new protocol for the rapid quantification of actinides (U, Th, Pu, Am and Np) and 90Sr in soil samples has been developed. This protocol includes three steps: (1) an alkaline fusion digestion, (2) an automated separation and (3) an on-line ICP-MS measurement. Eluted fraction containing strontium can be collected to quantify radiostrontium using o...
Published in Journal of environmental management
Improvements in microbial drinking water quality monitoring are needed for the better control of drinking water distribution systems and for public health protection. Conventional water quality monitoring programmes are not always able to detect a microbial contamination of drinking water. In the drinking water production chain, in addition to the ...
Published in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
To study the interaction of laccases, mediators, and substrates in laccase-mediator systems (LMS), an on-line measurement was developed using high performance anion exchange chromatography equipped with a CarboPac™ PA 100 column coupled to pulsed amperometric detection (HPAEC-PAD). The developed method was optimized for overall chromatographic run ...
