Research was conducted to determine suitable chemical parameters as indicators of odor from decomposing food wastes. Prepared food scraps were stored in 18 l plastic buckets (2 kg wet weight each) at 20 °C and 8 °C to reproduce high and low temperature conditions. After 1, 3, 7, 10 and 14 days of storage, the odor from the buckets were marked to an intensity scale of 0 (no odor) to 5 (intense) ...

an aquaculture system can be a potentially significant source of antibacterial compounds and ammonia in an aquatic environment. in this study, the removal of total ammonia nitrogen and florfenicol antibiotic from synthetic aqueous wastewater was assessed by applying a commercial tfc (thin film composite) polyamide nanofilter. the effects of ph (6.5-8.5), pressure (4-10 bar), concentration of to...

BACKGROUND Chemoautotrophic ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB) have the metabolic ability to oxidize ammonia to nitrite aerobically. This metabolic feature has been widely used, in combination with denitrification, to remove nitrogen from wastewater in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). However, the relative influence of specific deterministic environmental factors to AOB community dynamics in ...

Rats were made chronically hyperammonemic by portal-systemic shunting and, 8 wk later, were subjected to acute ammonia intoxication by the intraperitoneal injection of 5.2 mmol/kg of ammonium acetate. In free-ranging animals, ammonia treatment induced a brief period of precoma (10-15 min) that progressed into deep, anesthetic coma lasting for several hours and was associated with a high mortali...

Pretreatment of miscanthus is essential for efficient enzymatic production of cellulosic ethanol. This study reports a possible pretreatment method for miscanthus using aqueous ethylenediamine (EDA) for 30 min at 180 °C with or without ammonia. The mass ratio of miscanthus to EDA was varied from 1:3, 1:1, and 1:0.5, keeping the mass ratio of miscanthus to liquid (EDA + Water) constant at 1:8. T...

8 A regression tree-based diagnostic approach is developed to evaluate factors affecting US 9 wastewater treatment plant compliance with ammonia discharge permit limits. Discharge Monthly 10 Report (DMR) data from a random sample of 106 municipal treatment plants: 5% of the EPA 11 ICIS/ECHO database, for the period of 2004-2008 is used to fit this model. Predictor variable 12 importance is dete...

PURPOSE The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of 13N-ammonia and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) PET performed on the same day in the detection of advanced prostate cancer (PC) and its metastases. PATIENTS AND METHODS Twenty-six patients with high-risk PC [Gleason score 8-10 or prostate-specific antigen (PSA)> 20 ng/ml or clinical tumor extension ≥ T2c] were recruited into the st...

HE BLUE COLOR produced by the reaction of alkaline phenol with ammonia was first described by Berthelot (1), and Thomas (2) demonstrated that the reaction could be applied to the colorimetric determination of amnionium salts. \all Slvke and Hiller (3) estimated blood ammonia by means of this reaction, a11(l Borsook (4) applied the reaction to the estimation of urea after urease hydrolysis, by d...

This study sought to identify an optimal rodent bedding and cage-change interval to establish standard procedures for the IVC in our rodent vivarium. Disposable cages were prefilled with either corncob or α-cellulose bedding and were used to house 2 adult Sprague-Dawley rats (experimental condition) or contained no animals (control). Rats were observed and intracage ammonia levels measured dail...