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The use of ethanol as an automotive fuel oxygenate represents potential economic and air-quality benefits. However, little is known about how ethanol may affect the natural attenuation of petroleum product releases. Chemostat experiments were conducted with four pure cultures (representing archetypes of the known aerobic toluene degradation pathways) to determine how ethanol affects benzene, to...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have reported positive associations between maternal exposure to air pollutants and several adverse birth outcomes. However, there have been no studies assessing the association between environmental levels of hazardous air pollutants, such as benzene, and neural tube defects (NTDs), a common and serious group of congenital malformations. OBJECTIVE Our goal was to ...

In Catalonia (northeast Spain), a monitoring program was carried out to determine methyl tert.-butyl ether (MTBE), its main degradation products, tert.-butyl alcohol (TBA), tert.-butyl formate (TBF), and other gasoline additives, the oxygenate dialkyl ethers ethyl tert.-butyl ether, tert.-amyl methyl ether and diisopropyl ether and the aromatic compounds benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylen...

The pyrolysis of the biomass Agave salmiana bagasse (10 K/min, ambient to 700 °C) was investigated in absence and presence Aerosil MCM-41 catalysts. synthetized using a typical hydrothermal method characterized with XRD, SAXS, SEM, TEM, nitrogen physisorption confirm unidimensional 3.4 nm diameter pores. Pyrolysis products were monitored online mass spectrometry (MS), analyzing production 29 di...

We at the Desert Research Institute (DRI*) measured volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including several mobile-source air toxics (MSATs), particulate matter with a mass mean aerodynamic diameter < or = 2.5 pm (PM2.5), black carbon (BC), nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter (PM), and carbon monoxide (CO) on highways in Los Angeles County during summer and fall 2004, to characterize the diu...

More than 200 kg real waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) shredder residues from a German dismantling plant were treated at 650 °C in demonstration scale thermochemical conversion plant. The focus within this work was the generation, purification, analysis of pyrolysis oil. Subsequent filtration fractional distillation combined to yield basic chemicals high purity. By means distill...

The effects of groundwater table fluctuation (GTF) on the remediation a petrochemically polluted riverside using soil vapor extraction (SVE) were investigated. migration and transformation benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, o-xylene (BTEX) in cases natural attenuation, SVE without GTF, with GTF simulated TMVOC model. results showed that optimized well pressure influencing radius target site 0.90 a...

abstract background: biogas is obtained by anaerobic decomposition of organic wastes buried materials used to produce electricity, heat and biofuels. biogas is at the second place for power generation after hydropower and in 2000 about 6% of the world power generation was allocated to biogas. biogas is composed of 40–45 vol% co2, 55–65 vol% ch4, and about 1% non-methanevocs, and non-methane vol...