Biofiltration of hydrophobic volatile pollutants is intrinsically limited by poor transfer of the pollutants from the gaseous to the liquid biotic phase, where biodegradation occurs. This study was conducted to evaluate the potential of silicone oil for enhancing the transport and subsequent biodegradation of hexane by the fungus Fusarium solani in various bioreactor configurations. Silicone oi...

We present Trickle, an algorithm for propagating and maintaining code updates in wireless sensor networks. Trickle uses a “polite gossip” policy, where nodes periodically broadcast a code summary to local neighbors but stay quiet if they have recently heard a summary identical to theirs. When a node hears an older summary than its own, it broadcasts an update. Instead of flooding a network with...

A three-phase nonisothermal heterogeneous model for describing the hydrotreating reactions in a trickle-bed reactor with complete catalyst wetting was solved. It includes correlations for determining solubility data, mass-transfer coefficients, and properties of the compounds under operating conditions. The model, based on the two-film theory and mass-transfer resistance at the gas-liquid and l...