mordecai, james al-thukair, assad musa, musa m. ahmad, irshad nzila, alexis
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is the leading oil-exploring and -exploiting country in the world. As a result, contamination of the environment by petroleum products (mainly hydrocarbons) is common, necessitating strategies for their removal from the environment. Much work has been conducted on bacterial degradation of hydrocarbons in the KSA. T...
lin, yingnan guofeng, yu liang, rongning kong, fanyu song, dean
With the increasing concerns of human health and the ecological environment, tobacco stalks from the cigarette industry have been recognized as hazardous wastes requiring cautious treatment. However, there is still a lack of a simple and efficient route for full utilization of tobacco stalks. Herein, we attempted to convert tobacco stalk waste to v...
Li, Yang Liu, Yuan Guo, Dongyi Dong, Hailiang
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Frontiers in Microbiology
The complexity of crude oil composition, combined with the fluctuating oxygen level in contaminated environments, poses challenges for the bioremediation of oil pollutants, because of compound-specific microbial degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons under certain conditions. As a result, facultative bacteria capable of breaking down petroleum hydro...
Tzialla, Ourania Theodorakopoulos, George V Beltsios, Konstantinos G Pilatos, George Reddy, K Suresh Kumar Srinivasakannan, Chandrasekar Tuci, Giulia Giambastiani, Giuliano Karanikolos, Georgios N Katsaros, Fotios K
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ChemPlusChem
This work presents the synthesis of N-doped nanoporous carbon materials using the Ionic Liquid (IL) 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tricyanomethanide [BMIM][TCM] as a fluidic carbon precursor, employing two carbonization pathways: templated precursor and pyrolysis/activation. Operando monitoring of mass loss during pyrolytic and activation treatments p...
Arkelid, Alva
In this study, optimization of a new multimethod for the analysis of PAH, PCB, aliphatics and aromatics in water have been done at Eurofins in Lidköping. Since the method is intended for routine analysis during a high sample flow, great focus was placed on the efficiency of the sample preparation. The company’s main goal was to replace the extracti...
Kokoszko, Maciej Rzeźnicka, Zofia
As far as women’s wellbeing is concerned, ancient and Byzantine physicians took great care not only of their patients’ health sensu stricto but also of their appearance. A testimony of the approach is given, for instance, by Aetius of Amida’s (6th cent. AD) Libri medicinales, where he devotes much attention to cosmetics, including a group of deodor...
Hall, Benjamin W. Kontur, Wayne S. Neri, Jeanette C. Gille, Derek M. Noguera, Daniel R. Donohue, Timothy J.
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Applied and Environmental Microbiology
There is economic and environmental interest in generating commodity chemicals from renewable resources, such as lignocellulosic biomass, that can substitute for chemicals derived from fossil fuels. The bacterium Novosphingobium aromaticivorans is a promising microbial platform for producing commodity chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass because ...
chiosso, maría eugenia crespo, iratxe merlo, andrea beatriz valle, beatriz
Catalytic cracking of bio-oil, conducted at atmospheric pressure without hydrogen supply, is a cost-effective and versatile approach for the targeted synthesis of biofuels and platform chemicals. The conversion of raw bio-oil follows intricate reaction pathways strongly influenced by the catalyst properties. In this work, we explore the use of vari...
Xie, Zhengzhi Chen, Jin Y Gao, Hong Keith, Rachel J Bhatnagar, Aruni Lorkiewicz, Pawel Srivastava, Sanjay
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Environmental science & technology
Urinary mercapturic acids (MAs) are often used as biomarkers for monitoring human exposures to occupational and environmental xenobiotics. In this study, we developed an integrated library-guided analysis workflow using ultraperformance liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry. This method includes expanded assignment crite...
zhiyu, li yang, dongyue guan, xueqiang sun, yuxia wang, junfang
Several studies have revealed that fruit-zone leaf removal could change the microclimate of grapevine growth, thereby causing complex effects on fruit composition. This study analyzed the profiles of volatiles in Cabernet Sauvignon (Vitis vinifera L.) grapes exposed to leaf removal treatment at different phenological periods in three continuous yea...