Within the Waste2Fuel project, innovative, high-performance, and cost-effective fuel production methods from municipal solid wastes (MSWs) are sought for application as energy carriers or direct drop-in fuels/chemicals in near-future low-carbon power generation systems internal combustion engines. Among studied vectors, C1-C2 alcohols ethers mainly addressed. This study presents a potential bio...

The term bioremediation describes biological machinery of recycling wastes to make them harmless and useful to some extent. Bioremediation is the most proficient tool to manage the polluted environment and recover contaminated river water.  Bioremediation is very much involved in the degradation, eradication, restriction, or reclamation varied chemical and physical hazardous substances from the...

The deeper understanding of the role of metal ion in bio-system has led to the awareness that metal complexation is useful in the treatment of bacterial, fungicidal and viral diseases. Most of the antimicrobial agents are obviously organic compounds, which behave as good chelating agent. Their pathogenic activity is enhanced on complexing with various transition and toxic metals. The biological...

background facultative marine fungi could potentially be arsenic tolerant and may be able to remove this highly poisonous metal from the environment. objectives the objective of this work was to explore the degree of tolerance and removal efficiency of two facultative marine fungi. materials and methods facultative marine fungi aspergillus flavus and rhizopus spp. were exposed to 25 mg/l and 50...

Heavy metals are regarded as toxic trace elements in the environment. Heavy metal pollution in soil or rice grains is of increasing concern. In this study, 101 pairs of soil and rice samples were collected from the major rice-producing areas along the Yangtze River in China. The soil properties and heavy metal (i.e., Cd, Hg, Pb and Cr) concentrations in the soil and rice grains were analyzed to...

A number of review articles have appeared in the literature recently on metal accumulation by plants. However, reports on the tolerance, accumulation and detoxification of arsenic in plants, especially in terrestrial plants, are limited. In light of the strong needs for study of arsenic biogeochemistry and development of arsenic decontamination techniques, in this paper we. review arsenic uptak...