Flexocleaners.com and The Sierra Club urge the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), state agencies and corporations to eliminate the use of the cleaning agent, nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs), in the industrial and domestic laundry detergent used in the United States. NPE metabolites often pass through wastewater treatment plants at a concentration that has been shown to cause harmful effects ...

2,6-Di-tert-butyl-4-nonylphenol(DTBNP) was synthesized from 4-n-nonyl phenol and isobutylene, etc. using self-made composite super acid as catalyst. The appropriate technology conditions are as follows: reaction temperature is 60-80 , reaction time is 4h, n 4-n-nonyl phenol : n Isobutylene = 1: 2 and the amount of catalysts is 0.019% of the quantity of 4-n-nonyl phenol reactant, the yield can r...

ParA is an essential P1 plasmid partition protein. It represses transcription of the par genes (parA and parB) and is also required for a second, as yet undefined step in partition. ParA is a ParB-stimulated ATPase that binds to a specific DNA site in the par promoter region. ATP binding and hydrolysis by ParA affect ParA activities in vitro. ATP and ADP binding stimulate ParA DNA binding and d...

lkylphenol ethoxylates are nonA ionic surfactants widely used in many institutional and household cleaning products and industrial processes. They have been popular for their effectiveness, economy and ease of handling and formulating for more than 40 years. They function as emulsifiers, detergents, wetting agents and dispersants. One of the largest application areas for alkylphenol ethoxylates...

To isolate a nonylphenol (NP)-degrading bacterium, we isolated a single colony from the NP-degrading microbial consortium SW-3, which was previously isolated from an aqueous environment. Ten colonies that exhibited different cell morphologies were isolated and the strains were named SW-3-A, -B, -C, -D, -E, -F1, -F2, -G, -H, and -I. The ability of isolates to degrade NP was evaluated by kinetic ...

In this work we use symplectic (para-)tt∗-bundles to obtain a geometric construction of (para-)pluriharmonic maps into the pseudoRiemannian symmetric space GL(2r,R)/Sp(R). We prove, that these (para-)pluriharmonic maps are exactly the admissible (para-)pluriharmonic maps. Moreover, we construct symplectic (para-)tt∗-bundles from (para-)harmonic bundles and analyse the related (para-)pluriharmon...