Background and purpose: Dyes are one of the main pollutants in the various industrial wastewaters. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the biosorption of acid red 18 dyes from aqueous solutions by brown macroalgae biomass “Sargassum glaucescens.” Materials and Methods: This research was a lab study. S. glaucescens was used as an adsorbent to remove acid red 18. The effect...

Anaerobic digestion of high-nitrogen wastes such as animal manure can be inhibited by high concentrations of un-ionized ammonia, NH(3) (aq). Understanding the toxicity of NH(3) (aq) to anaerobic digestion requires a method for determining its concentration. Previous work on ammonia toxicity in anaerobic digesters has utilized a simple equilibrium calculation for estimating NH(3) (aq) concentrat...

in this article cloud-point extraction (cpe) was used with chelating agent to extract uranium from aqueous solutions. the methodology used is based on the formation of metal complexes soluble in a micellar phase of surfactant. the metal ions complexes are then extracted into the surfactant-rich phase at a temperature above the cloud-point temperature. the effect of type of surfactants and ligan...

The fundamental equation describing radioimmunoassays under equilibrium conditions has been recast into a "working equation" in a form more directly applicable to the requirements of the analytical laboratory. Plotting total counts over counts bound vs. ligand concentration, which is conveniently linear over most of its course, is shown readily to yield quantitative data relative to binding sit...

Linearised fluctuating hydrodynamics describes effectively the concentration non-equilibrium fluctuations (NEF) arising during a diffusion process driven by a small concentration gradient. However, fluctuations in the presence of large gradients are not yet fully understood. Here we study the giant concentration NEF arising when a dense aqueous colloidal suspension is allowed to diffuse into an...

A Proton Transfer Reaction-Mass Spectrometer (PTR-MS) has been coupled to the outlet of a Field and Laboratory Emission Cell (FLEC), to measure volatile organic compounds (VOC) concentration during a sorption experiments (Rizk et al., this issue) [1]. The limits of detection of the PTR-MS for three VOCs are presented for different time resolution (2, 10 and 20 s). The mass transfer coefficient ...

We introduce a probability model for gene regulatory networks, based on a system of Chapman-Kolmogorov equations that represent the dynamics of the concentration levels of each agent in the network. This unifying approach includes the representation of excitatory and inhibitory interactions between agents, second-order interactions which allow any two agents to jointly act on other agents, and ...

1. It has been shown by titration experiments that the globulin edestin behaves like an amphoteric electrolyte, reacting stoichiometrically with acids and bases. 2. The potential difference developed between a solution of edestin chloride or acetate separated by a collodion membrane from an acid solution free from protein was found to be influenced by salt concentration and hydrogen ion concent...

The reversibility of the reaction catalyzed by purified (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-dependent ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum was studied by measuring the rates of synthesis and hydrolysis of ATP observed during the ATP in equilibrium Pi exchange reaction. The ratio between the velocities of hydrolysis and synthesis of ATP was found to vary between 700 and 1.2 depending on the concentrations of ATP, Pi, Mg2...