Combination of a partial nitritation process and an anaerobic ammonium oxidation process for the treatment of sludge reject water has some general cost-efficient advantages compared to nitrification-denitrification. The integrated process features two-stage autotrophic conversion of ammonium via nitrite to dinitrogen gas with lower demand for oxygen and no external carbon requirement. A nitrify...

Reduction of MoO3 in propene and oxidation of MoO2 in oxygen are investigated by in situ X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Xray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). Temperature-programmed and isothermal experiments (573–773 K) are performed to elucidate the structural evolution of phases present during the reactions and, in addition, to reveal the solid-state kinetics of the processes involved. During the ...

Dilated cardiomyopathy can be broadly defined as heart failure with an enlarged left ventricular chamber, but with no evidence of ischemic heart disease or myocardial infarction. Recent studies from patients and animal models show that dilated cardiomyopathy results in a decrease in myocardial content of adenosine-50-triphosphate (ATP) and phosphocreatine and a decrease in the capacity for mito...

The mechanism and kinetics of copper nanoparticles oxidation at low temperature were investigated using thermogravimetry (TGA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), X-Ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Isothermal and isobaric studies of the oxidation reaction were carried out at various temperatures. It was found that working under an oxygen partial pressure o...

An asymmetric cell based on a proton conductor, BaZr0.1Ce0.7Y0.1Yb0.1O3 d (BZCYYb), with a welldefined patterned Pt electrode was prepared to study the kinetics and mechanism of the hydrogen oxidation reaction under typical conditions for fuel cell operation and hydrogen separation, including operating temperature and hydrogen partial pressure. Steady-state polarization curves were carefully an...

The Anammox process allows a sustainable treatment of wastewater with high nitrogen content. Partial oxidation of ammonium to nitrite is a previous and crucial step. Given the variability on wastewater composition, the operation of sequencing batch reactors (SBR) for partial nitritation (PN) is very challenging. This work assessed the combined influence of influent characteristics and process l...

Heparin, an anionic polysaccharide, inhibited the ferredoxin-catalyzed reduction of NADP in spinach chloroplast thylakoid membranes. Under the same conditions of assay, heparin did not interfere markedly with photoreduction of methyl viologen, anthraquinone sulfonate, or ferredoxin. A kinetic analysis of the heparin-induced interference with NADP photoreduction showed partial competitive inhibi...

Synchrotron XPS was used to investigate a series of chemically-synthesised, atomically-precise gold clusters Au(n)(PPh(3))(y) (n = 8, 9, 11 and 101, with y depending on cluster size) immobilized on titania nanoparticles. The gold clusters were washed with toluene at 100 °C or calcined at 200 °C to remove the organic ligand. From the position of the Au 4f(7/2) peak it is concluded that cluster s...

We report iron-containing mixed-oxide nanocomposites as highly effective redox materials for thermochemical CO2 splitting and methane partial oxidation in a cyclic redox scheme, where methane was introduced as an oxygen "sink" to promote the reduction of the redox materials followed by reoxidation through CO2 splitting. Up to 96% syngas selectivity in the methane partial oxidation step and clos...